(April 2, 2022 at 8:05 am)polymath257 Wrote:(April 1, 2022 at 6:34 pm)arewethereyet Wrote: When I was a kid we had ABC, NBC, and CBS. PBS wasn't even a thing.
And the TV turned off around midnight making late night baby feeding when I was in my early 20s pretty boring. By the time I had number 3, cable was a thing.
And they had those fun test patterns before going to static.
The dial for the TV had 13 channels, but only 3 worked.
I also grew up in central Kansas, so there were no good radio stations.
I grew up in eastern Iowa...if the wind was blowing the right way we could pick up WLS out of Chicago. And sometimes, late at night we could hear KAAY out of Little Rock when it played the kind of rock now dubbed 'deep cuts'. But the planets needed to be lined up just perfectly for that.