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Back When TV Signed OFF for the Night; with Music, Test Patterns and Nobel Indian Profiles
Sept. 10, 13
| Lee Martell
Posted on 09/10/2013 8:32:11 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: lee martell
Yes, I remember “One Step Beyond” being used quite frequently as late-night filler. It could be quite eerie at times. There was an episode involving a clown that was particularly spooky.
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posted on
09/10/2013 9:36:42 PM PDT
by
greene66
To: lee martell
Well, today they show non-stop Nobel Indonesian profiles...so maybe things haven’t changed all that much. :)
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posted on
09/10/2013 9:39:18 PM PDT
by
Mr. Jeeves
(CTRL-GALT-DELETE)
To: Windflier
Can any one remember what this was really used for?
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posted on
09/10/2013 9:44:07 PM PDT
by
jy8z
(When push comes disguised as nudge, I do not budge.)
To: lee martell
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posted on
09/10/2013 9:55:55 PM PDT
by
GeronL
To: lee martell
I remember staying up late Saturday nights for NWA wrestling live from Dallas on Channel 11 (10pm to midnight), KTVT. It was a family thing, we had no idea this was more or less a local-regional program. This was a huge deal back then, lol.
We lived in an old house without AC, in north Texas. We had a single water cooler in the living room and that was it.
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posted on
09/10/2013 9:58:56 PM PDT
by
GeronL
To: jy8z
Can any one remember what this was really used for? I believe the TV techs used them to test and calibrate their broadcast equipment each night.
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posted on
09/10/2013 9:59:15 PM PDT
by
Windflier
(To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
To: greene66
There was an episode involving a clown that was particularly spooky. Is that the one that started in 2008 and ran to the present?
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posted on
09/10/2013 10:00:51 PM PDT
by
Windflier
(To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
To: GeronL
We lived in an old house without AC, in north Texas. We had a single water cooler in the living room and that was it. Man, summers must have been fun back then. I live in North Texas now, and can't imagine life without it.
When I was an Army brat in Okinawa in the sixties, we lived without a/c for a time. It was freaking brutally hot. When Dad finally got us a proper house on base, we felt household a/c for the first time in our lives.
After moving back stateside, I didn't have a/c again until I was in my forties.
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posted on
09/10/2013 10:04:46 PM PDT
by
Windflier
(To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
To: Windflier
I think its state law now that any rental home/apt must have air conditioning
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posted on
09/10/2013 10:07:05 PM PDT
by
GeronL
To: Jack Hydrazine
I don’t remember that one for some reason, I do, however remember the sign off in my area was the star spangled banner played and a formation of jets doing a fly over with other patriotic scenes too.
To: lee martell
I can remember when the 2 TV stations out of New Orleans would shut down around 10-10:30 PM.
National Anthem, test pattern for 15 minutes then snow.
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posted on
09/10/2013 10:10:49 PM PDT
by
The Cajun
(Sarah Palin, Mark Levin, Ted Cruz......Nuff said.)
To: GeronL
Just out of curiosity, were the summertime temps a bit milder here when you were a kid, or about the same?
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posted on
09/10/2013 10:11:07 PM PDT
by
Windflier
(To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
To: Windflier
I have no real idea, I guess I was hardier back then because we didn’t know any better. We were outside all the time it seems like.
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posted on
09/10/2013 10:12:25 PM PDT
by
GeronL
To: Windflier
Yep. It was a television system tool sometimes even used hourly to keep focus and contrast in sync with the broadcast version of the telecast. I remember being a "remote control" for my parents when I had to get up and adjust either the vertical or horizontal knobs to clear the picture.
I guess we showed our age knowing that. :)
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posted on
09/10/2013 10:16:25 PM PDT
by
jy8z
(When push comes disguised as nudge, I do not budge.)
To: jy8z
I had to get up and adjust either the vertical or horizontal knobs to clear the picture. I guess we showed our age knowing that. :) Yet another great memory. LOL
Never imagined I'd look back on that as a fond memory!
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posted on
09/10/2013 10:20:12 PM PDT
by
Windflier
(To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
To: GeronL
I have no real idea, I guess I was hardier back then because we didnt know any better. We were outside all the time it seems like. Yeah, I suppose. We were all a lot skinnier back then, so I guess the heat didn't bother us as much. There's also the old saying, 'You can't miss what you never had.'
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posted on
09/10/2013 10:22:10 PM PDT
by
Windflier
(To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
To: Windflier
The only places we had A/C as a kid was the bank and drug store in town, always was some old biddy complaining about how cold it was in there.
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posted on
09/10/2013 10:28:10 PM PDT
by
The Cajun
(Sarah Palin, Mark Levin, Ted Cruz......Nuff said.)
To: The Cajun
I remember walking to the mall, to the roller skate rink and stuff as a kid but somehow I never really minded not having AC at home back then
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posted on
09/10/2013 10:29:41 PM PDT
by
GeronL
To: Windflier
Never imagined I'd look back on that as a fond memory!
As time marches on the memories keep getting fonder.
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posted on
09/10/2013 10:30:21 PM PDT
by
jy8z
(When push comes disguised as nudge, I do not budge.)
To: bigbob; MinuteGal
“Followed by the National Anthem.
EVERY station Ive been around played the National Anthem, ever night.”
Fox Cable News has been playing the National Anthem every night, or should I say early morning as the split between their nighttime and daytime programming. It plays at 5 a.m. eastern time, every night. A nice touch and it indeed brings back memories of when virtually all the stations did this.
Bravo Fox for keeping the tradition going.
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posted on
09/10/2013 10:33:33 PM PDT
by
flaglady47
(When the gov't fears the people, liberty; When the people fear the gov't, tyranny.)
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