Who on here is old enough to remember this? Television signing off for the night.

Wow yes I totally remember this when I was little! I was born in 71 (feeling really OLD now!). I don't know why but it used to really freak me out - especially at the end when the colored bar test pattern and long beeeep came on. What really freaked me out the most was at the very end when the bug-races came on, LOL. And this was several years pre-Poltergeist! For some reason broadcast sign off felt scary to me so I'd try to hurry up and get in my bed before it started. My mom (born in 47) would be out in the living room turning off the TV - but not until the National Anthem was done playing. She always had to watch that part. For some reason the Anthem scared me - not sure why. I think it reminded me of war or something...like it signified the end of the world. Still gives me the creeps when I watch and listen to it!



Last Edited by Sleepy Night Owl on 04/07/2018 04:22 AM

I remember.

I also remember being able to read some of the subliminal words as a kid.

LOL true!

Everything was so... so... SO... much better, before Libscum.

Yep.

Acri Creature Feature!!! It was a local thing; you wouldn't understand.

I remember watching Yuri Gagarin's flight to Space on the family's black and white TV on the day it happened and all the subsequent events. The huge official welcome at the Kremlin with President Kruschev and all that.

They were huge boxes at the time. No flat screen TVs even less colour TVs.

So i think these were short-time experiments by some "genius" minds from some Universities, trying to study the reactions and check if it works.
I say, it didnt work.

In my area, we only had 3 channels to choose from: ABC, CBS, NBC. Those were the days of live television. Even the commercials were live.

The sound with the test pattern was to get you to turn off your TV for the night. I think there may have been fears that the picture tube would burn out if left on to a steady pattern all night.

I like your dog lol

Me, too. I even remember before TV stations went to 20K watts. Before that the picture was almost too snowy to see.

Saturday westerns was where it was at in those days: Sky King, Hoppalong Cassidy, Roy Rogers, Gene Autre, the guy in a black mask and cape who rode a black horse, The Cisco Kid, etc. I'm sure there were others but I don't remember them off hand.

I remember that! A small white dot in the middle of a black screen.

In the 50s and most of the 60s there were only 3 channels: ABC, CBS, NBC.

I remember in the late 50s when a neighbor a couple of doors down bought a "color screen" that went in front of the TV screen and displayed a very raw color TV.

The screen was green in color but had the colors of the rainbow somehow embedded in it. It fit right over the picture screen. I don't know how it stayed put, static electricity, maybe. In essence, they were able to see color TV.

remember after athema john wayne speaking

On a clear night we would loosen up and turn the antenna and get a 3rd channel.
Now that was good times especially when your friends missed all that blurry action and you had to tell them about the show.

I do and Ill bet at least half of the folks on GLP do.

ALLOW 24-7 broadcasting?!?! Oh yeah, thank the troops for protecting your freedom.,

Doesn't mean anything, really. Just visuals to help adjust the picture.

I remember in 1950s when television screen was a circle with like an x through the middle with fine lines I tried to find a photo of this with no luck

That's it that's what always can up on the TV screen every time it signed off thanks for finding that

In the town where I lived there was a 10PM curfew in the 70s.

Me too with the Indian Head test pattern circle in B & W.

That was channel 7 buffalo NY with Irv Weinstein ?

The worlds MOST POWERFUL DRUG is now in charge...

T.V.

I'd eagerly await my cartoons on Saturday mornings waiting for the station to sign on watching the color bars and listening to the constant beeeeeeeeeep tone.

I remember the Indian test pattern with the hum...

WPIX channel 11 NYC 1979

The curfew was in AZ. Not sure if the broadcast was in every city across the country though.

I vaguely remember a test pattern that resembled what looked like a nuclear symbol of sorts. Was black and white like the Indian one.