Remember when TV would sign off the air

Do you also remember Tom Labrie's. It was the only all night program on 40. A waterbed salesman showed not very good movies inbetween his commercials.

 

Now they just stick infomercials on when they go "off-air".
I don't watch TV much now.. Sorta got turned off its mind control in my teens. Never even owned one ages 16 to around 45.

 

In the late 40's and early 50's most people could only afford 1 tv- and you could only get about 3 stations- the programing was to suit the public- in the daytime. Mothers were home. So they had soap operas and game shows, then from about 3:30 untill 5 oclock. They had childrens programs, then after supper the man was in charge of the tv- on saterday morning the husband went downtown to pay bills or by something from sears, so they had cartoons, big top circus etc, for the kids untill noon- thenwe were expected to go outside and play.

 

1st it was all black and white then every once in a while,you'd see a program that was going to be in color. Wooo-big deal.Very few and far between tho. Remotes eventually came and the path on your rug from your chair to the TV from getting up to change one of the 3 channels available, would disappear.

 

and there was t.v. repair shops

 

I remember some of the t.v. stations playing "high flight " it goes in part I have sliped the slurly bonds of earth and tuched the face of God .They would list all the t.v. stations reppeters the audio and video power and sine off . Very early in the moring they would play the star spangled banner . I remember Jack Lalane in a early morring exercise program . I remember t.v.s with a bunch of vacuum tubes , you could take them out and test them . Ever thing now is what is called serfice mount tec. its cheeper to buy a new one . http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vacuum_tube desert rat

 

I remember the morring farm report , and capt. kangroo , but I dont think he was the first thing on . I had almost forgotten high flight until this post . It was written by a ww2 British pilot . One is a F-104 the other is a B-36 there almost forgtten to hystory now . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoL-KCFbIpA"]HIGH FLIGHT-1960'S original - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xV0Iez05Nc8&feature=related"]High Flight recited by William Conrad - YouTube desert rat

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SnhgpVb-u5s"]THE FLYING NUN (1967-1970) - YouTube

 

I do remember the flying nun , her hat had these little wings , it let her fly . It has nothing to do with a t.v. station sine off at night . There were several short programs that they would play at sine off , high flight was one of them . One station would play old movies at night , I was watching a sci fi movie one night . In the movie a u.f.o. was making people do stupid things , one guy stuck his hand into a running mower . This was the night of the mass suicide in Jones Town Guyana , and they flashed it on the bottom of the t.v. I thought to my self what the hell is going on . http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_jones desert rat

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMZ_rQKAy7c&playnext=1&list=PL779DA771D31EEB2C&feature=results_video"]National Anthem (1960s TV Station Sign-Off) - YouTube


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4IKd_TRZQY&playnext=1&list=PL779DA771D31EEB2C&feature=results_video"]1984 KFVS Station Sign-off & National Anthem - YouTube


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T33l0cVnpKQ&playnext=1&list=PL779DA771D31EEB2C&feature=results_video"]WBBM Channel 2 - Partial Anthem, Sign-Off, & Bars (1978) - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2JvT7zeuU0&playnext=1&list=PLC283CE05C4778A5B&feature=results_video"]Old CBC O Canada National Anthem sign-off - YouTube

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qx3WueJWlb4&feature=related"]High Flight - YouTube

 

I remember them sigining off and firing up again in the morning. That was in the 70s and I dont know when they quit doing that.. I remember the test pattern...I thought it was in the morning they played the national anthem but maybe it was both. I remember Captian Kangaroo and being at my one grandmas house and her watching Jack LaLane in the morning. That one was in the late 60s or real early 70s.

 

What did people do when they got home from bars at 2 am and there were no badly-performed-but-oddly-entertaining infomercials to watch? Talk to each other? Make love?
Sounds awful!

 

ya right. Dont listen to the old people guys they are trying to pull one over on us. Tv channels signing out.. Bwahahaha

 

God I wish tv would go off the air now. I need to give the TV (and pretty much any vice there is) addict I live with an excuse to turn off the tv once in a while. I swear that thing is going to explode one day.

 

To La Principessa , my t.v. has this on/off switch , it that does not turn it off , I can pull out the plug . You could climb a mountain or other things . desert rat
p.s. On that t.v. you could act like Elvis , listen to the song 57 chanels and nothing on . it goes in part 357 mag. solid steel cast in the blessid name of Elvis I just let it flash .

 

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