[GOPJ]

It wasn’t until the 1980s, when the advent of cable TV made them a necessity, that remote controls were included with every TV set and we were finally able to say goodbye to changing channels by turning the clunky knobs. A legitimate case could be made that children were less obese back then because of those frequent walks back and forth from the TV.

Having kids who could change channels was one of the reasons for having kids...

[driftless2]

Well, we did’t get that much exercise changing channels...for many years we only had two channels, CBS and NBC. So many evenings the tv was set to the same channel. But the shows seemed more interesting in those days than today. Now I can’t stand most primetime, network programming.