I know you old timers will.

A buddy and I were talking about this yesterday.

Do any young folks remember when tv went off at night? The stations quit broadcasting late at night and the tv had different colored stripes on the screen. Early in the mornings, fighter jets came across the screen and they played the National Anthem, then they started broadcasting again.

The young guys at work didn't believe us.

I can honestly say I didn't know this happened. Cool.

I remember having black and white only and having to get up to turn the knob to change channels.

Fall asleep watching mamas family or the jeffersons then wake up to the colored stripes on tv. Bed time

I work on digital television transmitters for Alabama Public Television. I'm only 23 but my boss tells me stories from before the stations were remoted when someone had to be there when they signed on at whatever time it was in the morning all day until they signed off and shut the transmitter down at 11. I've heard him say something about playing the national anthem at sign on then again at sign off.

Yes

Yes I do. Played the national anthem with flag flying on several channels

I'm 54 and I remember it. I always thought it was cool to get to stay up that late with my Daddy. I also remember when I was a kid WBAM would sign off at night playing Dixie.

Here's your sign off, High Flight, when TV went off at midnight.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QuIic17ijP8

I remember them signing off at night with the National Anthem and the video of the American flag waving in slow motion.

Yep

I'm 41 and I remember it.

Midnight, "Station is signing off for the day" message and the national anthem.

5 a.m., "Station is signing on for the day" message, national anthem, morning news.

I remember when the NWS weather forecasts started being played all night and then cable began. HBO movies? Cool. MTV videos at night? Same rotation every hour or two, but it was something to watch. ESPN, sports and Australian Rules Football on 24 hours a day? Holy cow.

(BTW, Aussie Rules Football was ESPN's top-ranked show for many years because it was different, brutal and appealed to the young male demographic. Back then, in the olden days of the early 1980s, they got huge ratings when they showed a match.)

Yep, and I remember only getting 3 UHF channels. Test pattens at sign on and sign off. Also remember the National Anthem and Pledge of Allegiance being broadcast. Imagine that

Yep, three UHF channels and the PBS channel.

You whippersnappers with 43,938 channels and Netflix Roku laptop videos don't have a clue.

OK, ya'll remember Don Kirshner's Rock Concert, Soul Train and the predecessor to MTV ( the MTV that showed music videos), Night Tracks?

My brother and I were the first remotes and had to change the channels.

Of course! Don Cornelieus was the coolest cat around.



Kirshner's show was crazy for the time, too.

I remember it, and I'm only 32. It was very early in childhood, but I do rember it. Also , before a show came on, there would be different colored stripes and the clockwise black circle countdown.

We got one channel, WSFA-TV in Montgomery, black and white.