Boomers didn’t have remotes.
Boomers were outdoors anyway, TV was for evenings and Saturday morning.
Actually we did. When I was 5 years old in Hawaii..1961, my parents purchased a TV from Sears. It was black and white. The remote used metal rods that were struck by a hammer inside the remote. The TV had an ultrasonic receiver that decoded the tones into control for on/off, volume up/down, channel up/down.
Dad upgraded his old Fisher monophonic FM tuner with a "demultiplexer" to decode the new stereo signals being broadcast on FM radio. He added a Sherwood stereo amplifier and speakers he purchased in Japan on has last cruise. The tape drive was still reel-to-reel and I handled that just fine at age 5.