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Remember TV Test Patterns? |
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Posted by Mitch45 on Tue Oct 9 06:59:23 2007 Who among us is old enough to remember when TV stations did not broadcast 24/7 and that most stations went off the air at about 1 or 2 a.m.? There would be a farewell message, the national anthem and then snow. At some point, a test pattern would come on, accompanied by a high-pitched noise and would stay on until the station came back on the air at about 5 or 6 a.m.I remember when I was a kid in the early '70s, I would wake up early on summer mornings and try to watch TV, only to see nothing on. Imagine stations playing the National Anthem today! Lawsuits galore, I'd wager. |
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