[Fiddlstix]

LOL! You and I grew up in the same era I guess. I remember seeing my first tv set back in 1947.
Couldn't see it in the daytime cuz picture was too dim.
It belonged to one of my "great uncles". It had a little "round" picture tube.
We had one tv station. It came on the air at noon and went off air at 10pm.
(Why I don't know. It was unwatchable in daylight hours)
Sunday it came on at 4pm and went off at 9pm

[yarddog]

Yes those were the days. A few minutes before the station came on, they had an Indian Chief test screen up. Around 10 they played the national anthem as they signed off for the night. I think they went to midnight before too long and began playing old movies during the last two hours.

The local TV station in Panama City was WJDM. It went off the air so often that people began calling it “Wait Just a Damn Minute”. The station then changed their call letters.