Re: Turn Your Radio On ...

On Fri, 31 Jan 2025, WokieSux282@ud0s4.net wrote:

On 1/31/25 5:03 PM, D wrote:

  On Fri, 31 Jan 2025, Lars Poulsen wrote:
 

On 31/01/2025 07:09, WokieSux282@ud0s4.net wrote:

I grew up with 2.5 TV stations ... the 0.5
   was more distant and only came in OK if the
   weather was just right.

 Back in Denmark, we had just one (public service) TV channel. People

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 Makes me feel young! When I grew up in Sweden, we had 2 channels! 100% more! ;)
 Then I think around 1989 or was it 1990 private TV was first created. I did not have it, too expensive, but a friend had, and it was very exciting to watch all the weird shows on the first private channel. May Jan Stenbeck, the destructor of 2 government monopolies (at least) rest in peace! =)
 

I often was still listening when they signed off, playing,
    At the end of the day / I kneel down and say
   Thank you Lord / for my work and play!
   I tried to be good / for I know that I should
   That's my prayer / at the end of the day.
 Fond memories ...

 I think I have vague memories of when I was visiting my grand parents in iceland
and every night when the public TV stopped broad casting, they finished with the
national anthem.

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 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.

Fascinating! Maybe I should email this suggestion to the sweden democrat party? (A nationalist party, lest there be any confusion) Would be superfun if they forced the public tv, very socialist, to end each day with the national anthem.

 Gen-A2, sometimes Gen-Z, simply cannot imagine being
 so media-deprived. TWO noisy channels on yer Zenith
 black-n-white ? How did you LIVE ???!!!
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 Dad bought a pretty decently-large Zenith early 60s.
 Looked almost exactly like :
https://preview.redd.it/d5pkeb0ukzy21.jpg?width=640&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=2329f5f7ae6a7992daa7402e02e225212b825d68

Very beautiful! They really could design beautiful technology in those days!

 Dunno what became of it, but it probably still works.
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 Don't touch that dial !
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