Remember when there were only THREE channels?

I remember roller skating at a roller skating rink.
Three channels I don’t remember except at our neighbours house. They had a party line too.
 

Remember when the President was on ALL three channels.
Remember when TV news programs were 15 minutes long.
Remember when TV stations shut down after Johnny Carson.
Remember Saturday morning westerns.
Remember rabbit ears.
Remember waiting for the TV set to "warm up".
Remember when there was such a thing as a TV repairman.
Remember when having kids was the forerunner of channel changing remote.
Remember your father always adjusting the "vertical hold".
Remember when people on TV smoked.
Remember when the Flintstones were #1 TV program.
Now YOU do some remembering.
All the above, PLUS... Walter Cronkite ruled the air! :)
 

I remember the Test Card that would be shown when nothing was being broadcast. I think it came up at the end of the night, national anthem was played and then all transmission stopped. We all knew that it was time for 😴 .
 

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I remember the Test Card that would be shown when nothing was being broadcast. I think it came up at the end of the night, national anthem was played and then all transmission stopped. We all knew that it was time for 😴 .
Same here!!! :)

I also remember the NBC Peacock- it was supposed to represent the World of Living Color or something like that, but didn't have the same effects on a black-and-white t.v.!
 
Hub remembers he and his dad going down the street to the Muntz TV store to stand outside and watch "Uncle Miltie". Also to their neighbors as they didn't have a set till much later.
 


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