Comments on: 6 Big Questions about your Television

By: taco bill

taco bill — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 17:55:37 +0000

Where are the other 5? #1 is here, but it says 6 questions about my TV.

By: mama9cats

mama9cats — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 15:59:28 +0000

I understand why we need to have the EAS, and also why they need to test it from time to time, but what I DON’T understand is why they have to test it in the wee hours of the morning, when most of us are sound asleep. It just about blasts me straight out of the bed! I’d turn the TV off, but Hubby doesn’t always sleep thru the night and he leaves it on all night. *Sigh* I’d try earplugs if I didn’t have to be able to hear the alarm clock.

By: Brooklynperson

Brooklynperson — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 22:30:23 +0000

I remember TVs without remotes! And UHF channels. In Milwaukee, back in those days, Channel 18 bought a lot of British series, so I got to see Man About the House and Robin’s Nest one night and Three’s Company on ABC the next. And I forget which station, but one of them used The Beatles’ “Good Night” as its sign-off music.

We had a great big GE color set in the 70s, with actual wood paneling. When SelectTV came in the early 80s, my 11-year-ish cousin would spend a good part of the night after 10pm trying to figure out how to unscramble the signal to see the dirty movies. ::shakes head::

By: PartiallyDeflected

PartiallyDeflected — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 03:53:21 +0000

That was a synthh version, I used to see that same version on the National Anthem before movies at the theater on an Air Force Base.

By: Owen

Owen — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 21:35:05 +0000

If I remember correctly, sometime during the 80’s the emergency broadcast system went of in certain areas in TX. An announcer opened his ‘envelope’ in order to follow the instructions and found that there was no instructions. Not even a ‘bend over and kiss your a$$ goodbye’

By: Nicole

Nicole — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 21:26:13 +0000

Sorry for the double post, but even though I’m a child of the (late) 80’s, we had an ancient TV that we would just refuse to throw away. Even though we always had the latest in technology, that TV did its duty in the guestroom for years. My mom bought it right out of college in the early 70’s, though the TV itself was from 1964-65. If it really was from that time, it would have been one of the first “all channel” TV’s. One of the biggest things about it that I remember is that it would need to warm up a minute or two before you’d get a picture (a very foreign thing for my generation). It didn’t even have a remote for it; if you wanted to turn it on, you would have to go to the TV to turn it on, then either change the channels at the TV using the knobs (when it didn’t have cable connected), or use the remote for the cable box to change the channels. Oh, and when we did connect cable to it, we had to use a special converter because it didn’t have any modern connections on the back.

Funny enough, when we finally got rid of it in 2005, it still worked! It makes me wonder if the TV’s they produce today will last that long.

By: Nicole

Nicole — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 21:07:18 +0000

I don’t know if it’s something wrong with my browser, but the formatting seems a bit off. No matter how many times I try to load it in Firefox, it’ll spill off the page, as if the CSS wasn’t loading correctly. For some reason, however, it’ll show just fine in Safari, so maybe it’s just my browser. Any hints?

By: Amy

Amy — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 20:02:29 +0000

Regarding the Emergency Alert System, why was it not utilized on 9/11/2001 in NYC and DC? Isn’t that what it was for? To let citizens know about local emergencies? If anyone knows, I would love to know.

By: Joanna

Joanna — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 18:30:48 +0000

Cartoon Network actually has a “good night” message at 11 o’clock (most nights) because they share the channel with the Adult Swim network.

By: ruthie

ruthie — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 18:04:37 +0000

not only do i remember the tv going off after playing the national anthem, but they also played dixie. (tennessee & mississippi). the radio stations went off at sunset, again closing with the playing of dixie. this was in the 60s and 70s. with all the local radio stations off, you could actually tune in to stations in chicago & cincinnati, albeit a little staticky (don’t think that’s a word).