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A long long time ago in a far away land there was a magical vision alternative called cable tv. When we first got cable believe
it or not it many stations didn't run commercials during their shows. Personally, I can't stand watching most of the crap
on TV(in general) because of the repetitive commercials that run 3-4 minutes, then the tv show which may run 4 minutes
then a commercial again. And most commercials & advertisers could give a rat's behind since they show the same ad
every time over & over. Me TV and Antenna TV does run old shows and fits the commercials as they were intended
back during their day. I'll also check out PBS because no commercials or the fascination with crummy reality stars and
trash shows.
BTY some shows hold up well with time & others stink. Hated Love American Style - too corny.
A long long time ago in a far away land there was a magical vision alternative called cable tv. When we first got cable believe it or not it many stations didn't run commercials during their shows.
I DO remember way back when I first heard of this thing called Cable. I didn't get to see it myself until the mid-80s, when I was over at a friend's house. I was SO disappointed, and disillusioned -- by that time, they were showing commercials. I couldn't believe it!! You paid for TV AND had to watch commercials??? What a rip off. But at the time, basic cable was probably less than $20/month.
I DO remember way back when I first heard of this thing called Cable. I didn't get to see it myself until the mid-80s, when I was over at a friend's house. I was SO disappointed, and disillusioned -- by that time, they were showing commercials. I couldn't believe it!! You paid for TV AND had to watch commercials??? What a rip off. But at the time, basic cable was probably less than $20/month.
I remember when cable was made available on the Oregon coast in the mid-60s. When I first heard the term "pay TV" all I could envision was some sort of box on the TV to put money in! Up until then we only got NBC and it went off the air at midnight. I believe we paid $3 month for cable back then.
Who wants to pay for and dig though hundreds of channels and 1000's of shows to find a decent one.
Me-Tv and This-Tv are running only oldies and they are rapidly increasing their vierwership as people learn of their existence, and they are free over the air channels.
I think we both know it is completely unrealistic anymore to have 3 channels with 24hrs of quality television. the entire reason there are hundreds of channels is to cater to more people. They are still mostly owned by the big 3 networks anyway.
The comment about Me-TV and This-TV is just an opinion. Neisen ratings havent begun monitoring it yet. That said there has never been a question of who those channels are available to and I am sure they cater to some people but the vast majority of viewers are not looking to watch 40 year old episodes of "Hawaii Five-0". It is a niche channel.
Anybody else miss the broadcast sign-offs at 2 or 3 o'clock in the morning when a male announcer would say 'We now conclude our broadcast day', then they played the national anthem, and after that some color bars or a static station ID would come up? How fondly I remember waking up to that eerie droning hum of 400hz.
I wonder if these sign-offs are still done anywhere?
Anybody else miss the broadcast sign-offs at 2 or 3 o'clock in the morning when a male announcer would say 'We now conclude our broadcast day', then they played the national anthem, and after that some color bars or a static station ID would come up? How fondly I remember waking up to that eerie droning hum of 400hz.
I wonder if these sign-offs are still done anywhere?
I remember the "this concludes message................" and how many times did we fall asleep on the couch only to wake up to snow. The national anthem always indicated I was either up too late or woke up too early.
We first had PBS here back in 1962. It wasn't very exciting back then. Now we've got 4 PBS channels and some pretty good programs! I DO remember the stations signing off for the night way back! Don't really remember when that stopped.
I used to enjoy PBS, but for the past 15 years or so, I haven't watched it at all. I'm not sure why I'm so turned off to it.
I will say that I can't pain myself to watch sitcoms anymore, even though I used to love them back in the 80's. Dramas have never held my interest. Nowadays, the only thing that has held my interest is Ice Pilots NWT, and that's on The Weather channel, which is much different than it used to be. It used to be all about...ummmm....uhhhh....oh yeah....weather. And IIRC, they used to use more graphics and text, and less overly-folksy weathermen. I get get the latter on the Big Three Local News At 6:00, thank you.
I do enjoy C-Span a lot of the time. I love the presenters voices (somewhat reminiscent of NPR). I also enjoy San Diego's own channel, City TV. I enjoy city council meetings and related fare.
I used to be such a couch potato, but now I am much more into radio (uually NPR, but also old jazz or indie).
Anybody else miss the broadcast sign-offs at 2 or 3 o'clock in the morning when a male announcer would say 'We now conclude our broadcast day', then they played the national anthem, and after that some color bars or a static station ID would come up? How fondly I remember waking up to that eerie droning hum of 400hz.
I wonder if these sign-offs are still done anywhere?
That was always mysterious and rare in some sense. I liked that. As well as when everything wasn't necessarily "Breaking News", and so whenever there was actually a break-in to Mr. Belvedere or Punky Brewster, it was actually a bit startling. It's actually rather funny watching YouTube videos of these various artifacts of our youth.
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Up until then we only got NBC and it went off the air at midnight. I believe we paid $3 month for cable back then.
