Path: csiph.com!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!news.nk.ca!rocksolid2!i2pn2.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: D Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Turn Your Radio On ... Date: Sat, 1 Feb 2025 11:28:42 +0100 Organization: i2pn2 (i2pn.org) Message-ID: <4670715e-82d6-a606-815a-a646ca03044d@example.net> References: <_hycnQxlN5kAphr6nZ2dnZfqn_SdnZ2d@earthlink.com> <1Wadnbe7od-Cagj6nZ2dnZfqnPqdnZ2d@earthlink.com> <8RucnQnhsYgzjgr6nZ2dnZfqn_idnZ2d@earthlink.com> <9ducnXj9pdrfuwr6nZ2dnZfqn_SdnZ2d@earthlink.com> <380b1c81-2b3c-6409-6bbd-edfba43be389@example.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="8323328-98154985-1738405724=:16712" Injection-Info: i2pn2.org; logging-data="2160949"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@i2pn2.org"; posting-account="w/4CleFT0XZ6XfSuRJzIySLIA6ECskkHxKUAYDZM66M"; In-Reply-To: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 4.0.0 Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:65092 This message is in MIME format. The first part should be readable text, while the remaining parts are likely unreadable without MIME-aware tools. --8323328-98154985-1738405724=:16712 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT On Fri, 31 Jan 2025, WokieSux282@ud0s4.net wrote: > On 1/31/25 5:03 PM, D wrote: >> >> >> On Fri, 31 Jan 2025, Lars Poulsen wrote: >> >>> On 31/01/2025 07:09, WokieSux282@ud0s4.net wrote: >>>>> I grew up with 2.5 TV stations ... the 0.5 >>>>>    was more distant and only came in OK if the >>>>>    weather was just right. >>> >>> Back in Denmark, we had just one (public service) TV channel. People >> ... >> >> Makes me feel young! When I grew up in Sweden, we had 2 channels! 100% >> more! ;) >> >> Then I think around 1989 or was it 1990 private TV was first created. I did >> not have it, too expensive, but a friend had, and it was very exciting to >> watch all the weird shows on the first private channel. May Jan Stenbeck, >> the destructor of 2 government monopolies (at least) rest in peace! =) >> >>> I often was still listening when they signed off, playing, >>> >>>    At the end of the day / I kneel down and say >>>    Thank you Lord / for my work and play! >>>    I tried to be good / for I know that I should >>>    That's my prayer / at the end of the day. >>> >>> Fond memories ... >> >> I think I have vague memories of when I was visiting my grand parents in >> iceland >> and every night when the public TV stopped broad casting, they finished >> with the >> national anthem. > > It was common for US stations to start/end/both with > the national anthem or something similar. A test pic > of an eagle or something 'patriotic' on the screen. > The practice kinda faded in the latter 60s once we > had been told to be self-loathing. Fascinating! Maybe I should email this suggestion to the sweden democrat party? (A nationalist party, lest there be any confusion) Would be superfun if they forced the public tv, very socialist, to end each day with the national anthem. > Gen-A2, sometimes Gen-Z, simply cannot imagine being > so media-deprived. TWO noisy channels on yer Zenith > black-n-white ? How did you LIVE ???!!! > > Dad bought a pretty decently-large Zenith early 60s. > Looked almost exactly like : > https://preview.redd.it/d5pkeb0ukzy21.jpg?width=640&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=2329f5f7ae6a7992daa7402e02e225212b825d68 Very beautiful! They really could design beautiful technology in those days! > Dunno what became of it, but it probably still works. > > Don't touch that dial ! > --8323328-98154985-1738405724=:16712--