Aw The Good Old Days of TV When We Only Had 3 Channels.

[RR Fan Dan]

 

[PlymCrazy]

I remember as a young kid, maybe 4 or 5 years old, regularly watching "Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom".
I'd see some footage on there of a lion catching and killing a Zebra, or something of that nature, and it devastated me.
So my mom told me that grandpa knew the people that film that show and that grandpa would talk to them and have them tell the animals to stop killing each other.
Thanks mom

 

[69 Sleeper Bee]

I remember that well. Also "Wide World of Sports" on the weekends.

 

[eldubb440]

pro wrestling and 3 stooges on UHF

 

[33 IMP]

Grew up in socal, we hade seven VHF channels, and unknown UHF.
I spent a summer in Mississippi and another in Alabame, and only got three networks. Nothing else! Boy, was that a bummer! I had to find something else to do, outside!
Thankfully, now I have 200 channels, and I don't have to go outside ever again.

 

[eldubb440]

3, 6, 10, ....17, 29, 48

 

[PlymCrazy]

VHF 8, 10 & 13
UHF 21 & 31

 

[eldubb440]

channel 48 WKBS........ The Kaiser Broadcasting System

 

[Ron_M]

We had one of those antenna rotator mechanisms and always had to fidget to get good reception which still sucked.

Loved the day we first got cable. USA, WPIX 11, WSBK 38, Superstation TBS, MTV. Then the decoderbox arrived and we had The movie channel, spotlight playboy channel. Good times.

 

[WileE]

Only 3 ? That's all ? NYC = 2,4,5,7,9,11 & PBS 13. A plethora of entertainment. Captain Kangaroo, Officer Joe Bolton's Three Stooges, Capt. Jack Mccarthy's Popeye the Sailor Man, Wonderama, Soupy Sales, Chuck McCann's Let's Have Fun, Sandy Becker Show, Romper Room, Shari Lewis, etc, to name a few.

 

[RR Fan Dan]

Only 3 ? That's all ? NYC = 2,4,5,7,9,11 & PBS 13. A plethora of entertainment. Captain Kangaroo, Officer Joe Bolton's Three Stooges, Capt. Jack Mccarthy's Popeye the Sailor Man, Wonderama, Soupy Sales, Chuck McCann's Let's Have Fun, Sandy Becker Show, Romper Room, Shari Lewis, etc, to name a few.

Yes and one of them was PBS. The repeater on the mountain went out a lot too so TV was hit or miss. We only really watched it on the weekends. Saturday morning cartoons, then outside to play, then Saturday night Hee Haw, Lawerence Welk, Saturday Night Live (when it was funny John Belushi Chevy Chase), and Sha Na Na. Then Sunday Morning nothing but Church so outside to play and Sunday night Wild Kingdom and Wonderful World of Disney. Then off to bed cause school night.

 

[YY1]

We actually had four-

ABC UHF 22
NBC VHF 2
CBS VHF 7
PBS UHF 16

Our 19" B&W Zenith was a gift and the VHF tuner was bad, so from 1974 to 1987, all I had was ABC and PBS.

Never saw a Flintstones episode until I was 12, but could recite Scooby Doo lines at will.
Also got to see Monty Python Benny Hill, and Space 1999 on PBS.

Around 1985, we got a fifth channel- local independent UHF 44.

 

[eldubb440]

 

[khryslerkid]

Three is all I have now, sometimes four. Free digital antenna. Got tired of paying $70+ and only watching a couple of channels.

Saturday mornings were the best. The parents owned the TV in the evenings. Either you watched what they were or you went to bed.

"One of these days Alice!"
"A one and a two and a three"
"It's going to be a really big shoe"
" Hey Gertrude, hey Heathcliffe"

 

[eldubb440]

 

[kiwigtx]

In the days when we had only one TV station here in New Zealand, there seemed to be more that people were interested in watching.

Now we have around 25 terrestrial channels to choose from, and it's hard to find one show in the evening that doesn't turn your stomach. All those "reality" shows are just absolute tripe.

 

[eldubb440]

Three is all I have now, sometimes four. Free digital antenna. Got tired of paying $70+ and only watching a couple of channels.

Saturday mornings were the best. The parents owned the TV in the evenings. Either you watched what they were or you went to bed.

"One of these days Alice!"
"A one and a two and a three"
"It's going to be a really big shoe"
" Hey Gertrude, hey Heathcliffe"

my Dad always said, "Ed Sullivan ruined this country!"

 

[khryslerkid]

In the days when we had only one TV station here in New Zealand, there seemed to be more that people were interested in watching.

Now we have around 25 terrestrial channels to choose from, and it's hard to find one show in the evening that doesn't turn your stomach. All those "reality" shows are just absolute tripe.

Nice avatar

Even has right hand drive!

 

[kiwigtx]

We used to get videos like this at TV closing time around midnight back in the day....

 

[RR Fan Dan]

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Don’t forget the end of the broadcasting day “STAR Spangled Banner”, followed by bug races.