Nancy by Olivia Jaimes for February 05, 2017

Sorry, I don’t understand any possible connection between the need to walk a few steps and change a TV channel with a knob, and being crabby. And I don’t know why anyone thinks that everyone over the age of 5 is crabby. This comic is not comical. Just puzzling…

The first remotes were hard lined to the TV. to the box with a button. Also three major stations, plus one or more local stations, VHF and UHF.

Wireless remotes were available in the 1970’s— ours used a “pitchfork” to send out a high frequency note for each function. We had a wind-up Santa Claus Christmas figure that rang a bell, and a harmonic matched the remote’s “channel up” function. As Santa rang his bell, the TV would cycle up through each channel (and we had about eight).

I grew up in the 70’s. In my house we had the big three networks, two PBS channels, two UHF channels, and one Religious channel. That makes eight for us. I personally find that 70’s kids aren’t so crabby, more like fun-loving and rather cool.

We had four: the local affiliates for ABC, NBC, CBS, and PBS. And they used to show lots of kid friendly stuff weekday afternoons, as opposed to all the chat show and judge show dreck they have now.

And what made us crabby was the way the channel knob would wear out, forcing us to use a pliers to change the channel.

Yeah and we grew up healthy…..Not fat like todays kids!!!

In the New York area, we had seven. Three networks, three locals, and PBS. And, unlike now, I actually watched TV.

In my sister’s house, my niece was the remote. When they finally got a real one, she jumped up and down for joy.

I must be really old. I remember having no television at all.

Maybe as many as ten, if you count the independent stations which broadcast re-runs of all those shows Sluggo is enjoying now on VHS.

@Night-Gaunt49

The first remotes were hard lined to the TV. to the box with a button. Also three major stations, plus one or more local stations, VHF and UHF.

I assume by “three major stations”, you mean ABC, CBS, and NBC, but not everyone got all three.

And, not really plus one or more local stations. They were all local stations, unless you had a really good antennae.

Our first “Television” was a console radio in the living room with a small dial that glowed. Listened to The Lone Ranger, Superman, The Green Hornet, I Love a Mystery and many other programs on that radio and the pictures we “saw” while listening were better than TV.

We had 4 stations and I remember the excitement when a 5th independent station was added on UHF.

In the Greater Los Angeles area, we had 7: CBS, NBC, ABC and four locals (one of which is now a super-station and one of which became the local Fox affiliate). There was no UHF, so no PBS until I was in my teens.

My grandfather invented his own remote. It was for the audio only, and he hard wired it to his TV so he could mute the commercials. It was a simple toggle switch and worked pretty well. He called it his “blab off”.

My grandfather’s TV had a remote back in the 60s.

I remember the TV stations signing off late at night, the “We conclude our broadcast day” bit and the National Anthem playing. Yeah that seems strange now.

Work hard for that pop corn, girlie? Say the word thanks, then shut up.