Re: Turn Your Radio On ...

On Fri, 31 Jan 2025 20:08:17 -0500, WokieSux282@ud0s4.net wrote:

   It was common for US stations to start/end/both with the national
   anthem or something similar. A test pic of an eagle or something
   'patriotic' on the screen. The practice kinda faded in the latter 60s
   once we had been told to be self-loathing.

The test patterns were dropped as color TV became more popular. Color TV
drove my uncle crazy. You had to be a little artistic to adjust the RGB
balance so everyone didn't look like a corpse and he was a techie, not an
artist.

There was a scam that advertised in the magazines that would convert your
black & white TV to color at a very reasonable price. It was a mylar sheet
you stuck on the tube.  Hey, it was color, wasn't it?

The updated version was the 'digital' antennas when the broadcasters
switched over. I'm still using rabbit ears that were designed to clamp on
the rain gutter of a vehicle that I bought sometime in the '90s.