Dear youngs,
That wire thing on top of the tv was called an antenna, and you'd often have to move it all around to catch the signal for the channel you wanted to watch.
Signed, An old
Who remembers this? Stations used to sign off at night, and all you would see was the test pattern. [Wikipedia page entry]
![The Wikipedia page for the Indian-head test pattern used by early TV broadcast stations when they signed off at night.
Yes, it was B&W televisions with antennas and shows were not on 24 hours a day.
[Le Sigh]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:ll7rb5c7rylmrs2vp3orbfyd/bafkreidtfxvhjmhkkg4356jyw732bt6gpr53rrobkqt2xdvz3wzdl6xenq@jpeg)
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