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submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 98 points 9 months ago (6 children)

This station now concludes its broadcast day.

That's right. At a certain time of night, TV stations would just stop showing things until morning.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I feel like even the concept of a tv station is a bit outdated despite technically still existing.

"Entertainment companies used to decide what shows were playing at 5pm"

[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I admit it's kind of odd (and sort of refreshing in a nostalgia sort of way) to be in a hotel room and watch broadcast TV.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago

It's the only time I get to watch Hogan's Heroes and Svengoolie 😁

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

I mean TV and cable are still a thing even in the US. My niece still loves mid day talk shows and soaps

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

I learned about this from Poltergeist.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

I blame this for my inability to sleep without white noise. I fell asleep to the television throughout my formative years.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

Local 58 "Contingency" flashbacks

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

I think my local channels used to do that too... Now they just fire up ads!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I was about to reply "you've got to be pretty old for that", then remembered that whenever I left the city for a beach vacation, they'd play infomercials after 1AM until programming resumed around 8AM. For big city channels, programming was 24/7, though.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

I'm probably pretty old because infomercials only became a thing starting in 1985.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infomercial#After_1984