back in my day, my parents made me change the channel and adjust the bunny ears

Yes and I really only had seven channels because 1 through 13 didn't broadcast something on every single number.  Channels 1,3, 6, 8, 10 and 12 were nothing but static and if you could find something on the UHF dial good luck.

 

I also remember being at my cousins house one summer night.  He, my brother and I were outside playing with walkie-talkies and my uncle came out to tell us to stop because he could not watch TV.  Apparently what we were saying was getting broadcasted over the channel he was watching.  This had to be sometime around 1974/1975  the changes that occurred between those years and say 1982/1983 are unbelievable when I think about it.

Back in my day, they did ... then things went to Hell in your era.

it must still be back in your day

 

Yes and I really only had seven channels because 1 through 13 didn't broadcast something on every single number.  Channels 1,3, 6, 8, 10 and 12 were nothing but static and if you could find something on the UHF dial good luck.

 

I also remember being at my cousins house one summer night.  He, my brother and I were outside playing with walkie-talkies and my uncle came out to tell us to stop because he could not watch TV.  Apparently what we were saying was getting broadcasted over the channel he was watching.  This had to be sometime around 1974/1975  the changes that occurred between those years and say 1982/1983 are unbelievable when I think about it.

 

Plus where I lived two of those channels were the same station (10 and 13 were both ABC).  Every once in a while we would get channel 2 from Thunder Bay where they had a Captain Kangaroo type show, but he was a giant who lived in a castle - so that was exciting.

 

Remember when the stations would actually sign-off (before all-night infomercials or commercials for 1-976 numbers) and you would see one of these two screens:

 

http://s3.amazonaws.com/opa-photos/photos/photos/000/060/737/original/RCA_Indian_Head_test_pattern.jpg?1469575890

 

 

 

Then when they started broadcast in the morning, they would first play the Star Spangled Banner.

Edited September 10, 20197 yr by D. Hocking

 

Plus where I lived two of those channels were the same station (10 and 13 were both ABC).  Every once in a while we would get channel 2 from Thunder Bay where they had a Captain Kangaroo type show, but he was a giant who lived in a castle - so that was exciting.

 

Remember when the stations would actually sign-off (before all-night infomercials or commercials for 1-976 numbers) and you would see one of these two screens:

 

http://s3.amazonaws.com/opa-photos/photos/photos/000/060/737/original/RCA_Indian_Head_test_pattern.jpg?1469575890

 

 

 

Then when they started broadcast in the morning, they would first play the Star Spangled Banner.

You must be old to remember all that.

 

You must be old to remember all that.

Not really, I'm younger than you and clearly remember the colored bar screens. It probably stuck around in rural areas a lot longer than the cities (I grew up in Bayfield and then Bemidji).

Not really, I'm younger than you and clearly remember the colored bar screens. It probably stuck around in rural areas a lot longer than the cities (I grew up in Bayfield and then Bemidji).

Remember the days when there were only black and white televisions?

 

Do you remember the top image?

Old enough to remember this:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HIxGyrQz_e8

Also old enough to remember Beat the Clock, Jeopardy with Art Fleming, Zoom and Wonderama

Old enough to remember this:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HIxGyrQz_e8

Also CBS:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yq0mUCFlizg

 

There was something really proud, or optimistic, or something, about the fanfares these two networks used. (I don't remember one on ABC with the same flair.) Somehow, I got a little shiver in my spine when these preceded the shows I was watching.

 

And we didn't even have a color TV yet.

OK, found an ABC one.

 

 

It was stodgier - overly formal, self-important even, like the Disney cartoon music back in the 50s (IMO). You could say that about NBC's, with the harp, but somehow I liked that one the best. NBC's and CBS's implied you were about to watch something really out of the ordinary - it didn't matter that the next sound that came out was the theme to Gilligan's Island.

I remember both the ABC and NBC ones ... but I don't remember the CBS one. And I was definitely old enough to ... maybe I just didn't watch enough shows on CBS back then.

 

 

 

Back in my day coach would tell you to bunt. 

 

 

Change is good. 

 

Back in my day, most baseball was played without adult supervision.