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Post by katlady on Mar 27, 2023 20:01:25 GMT
Do you remember your first tv? Was it color? B&W? Or, have you never had a TV?
I remember always having a TV in the house. It was one of those big things in a cabinet. I remember we even had a remote for it. It was a clicker that made noise. And I remember when it was getting old, we had to use rubber bands to keep the channel changer knob in a certain position to get certain stations. I don’t remember though if we ever had a B&W set, but I do know we had color.
Some households now don’t even have a TV, so I am curious if there are any here who never had a tv.
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Post by peabay on Mar 27, 2023 20:11:24 GMT
black and white TV in our playroom with a huge "rabbit ears" tuner to our antenna. We got channels 2 (CBS), 4 (NBC), 5 (local NYC), 7 (ABC), 9, (local NYC), 11 (local NYC) and 13 (PBS.) Sometimes we could get channel 21, NJ PBS.
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Post by katlady on Mar 27, 2023 20:14:51 GMT
black and white TV in our playroom with a huge "rabbit ears" tuner to our antenna. We got channels 2 (CBS), 4 (NBC), 5 (local NYC), 7 (ABC), 9, (local NYC), 11 (local NYC) and 13 (PBS.) Sometimes we could get channel 21, NJ PBS. We had basically the same channels in LA, with local NYC replaced by local LA. |
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Post by ScrapbookMyLife on Mar 27, 2023 20:18:37 GMT
As a child it was a console cabinet, with rabbit ears. No remote. One tv in the house.
As an adult in my 20's-30's-40's, it was a bulky box type tv, with a remote and cable television. One tv in living room, one tv in bedroom.
Currently, I have a small 24in flat screen, no cable. I rarely watch tv anymore. I currently get the local stations and a couple oldies stations via hard wired antenna.
If there is breaking news, I stream it live from whichever city(or nearest big city) it's happening in.
I watch movies via the Library website or I borrow a dvd from the library and watch it on my desktop computer.
At this stage of my life, having a television is not a priority.
The only reason I haven't gotten rid of my tv, is because I do like the ability to watch local breaking news without streaming and buffering.
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Post by **GypsyGirl** on Mar 27, 2023 20:26:55 GMT
I don't remember a time we were ever without a tv set. It was a smallish black & white with rabbit ears when I was very young. I was the remote control!  When I was 12, we got our first color tv. I was still the remote control! Then when DH and I got married as college students, we used the tv from his room at home for 2.5 years. It was black & white. At least he pitched in and was the remote control sometimes. One of our first purchases after he graduated and went to work was a color tv with a remote control! We thought we'd made it! |
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Post by eventhinker on Mar 27, 2023 20:30:53 GMT
I remember going from a black and white tv to a color one….and I remember getting “cable”. My personal first tv wasn’t a tv but a radio that picked up tv frequencies. Then I got a 10 inch black and white portable for my bedroom.
I still have that radio. Somewhere!
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Post by papersilly on Mar 27, 2023 20:31:10 GMT
i believe it was in color and we had it on one of those lightweight rolling carts.
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Post by mom2rjcr on Mar 27, 2023 20:33:13 GMT
When I was a little kid we had an old black and white with rabbit ears that sat on a tv tray table. Our next TV was small and in a GIANT console.
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Post by Zee on Mar 27, 2023 20:49:05 GMT
It was color and sat on a tall console. We always had cable (my dad had priorities) and I was the remote control.
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Post by ntsf on Mar 27, 2023 20:51:33 GMT
we had a black and white "portable" tv.. a box about 2 ft square. got maybe 4/5 channels. we didn't watch tv most evenings. by the time we got a color tv in the 1970's, you changed channels with a pliers.. and I never realized that the wizard of oz was a color movie as I never saw it in color til college.
we mostly watched kiddie shows and the olympics. my parents never watched the news or evening tv.
we have cable.. only one tv always.. no tv without cable.
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Post by Linda on Mar 27, 2023 20:54:22 GMT
we didn't have one when I was small.
My grandparents had TWO when we moved in with them. A colour tv in the living room - it wasn't a console, it was on a TV cart irc but was still one of those big bulky ones with no remote. We got NBC, CBS, ABC, and PBS irc. And upstairs in my grandparents room, grandpa (who was bedridden mostly - on a good day he could get up and sit in the bedroom chair) had a small black and white TV. I remember watching Brady Bunch downstairs and watching Wheel of Fortune and Sixty Minutes with grandpa.
When we got our own house, we had one tv - I think it was black and white but we later upgraded to a colour one. Same 4 channels. I remember when we got a VCR - mum worked a video store so would sometimes bring home a movie for us to watch.
Once I moved out...I didn't have a TV for years. When DS31 was 5 or 6, my boss gave us an old black and white TV she was getting rid of because she couldn't believe we didn't have one. It only got PBS and he would watch Reading Rainbow. It lasted about a year I think before dying and I didn't replace it until several years later when we won a TV at DH's work Christmas party raffle. That was probably 2001 or 2002 I think. We've had a TV since but only ever one and other than a brief time with dish network (maybe a year or so), we've never had cable. We did add Netflix when it started with streaming (we were already getting the vds by mail) and in the past few years, DH has subscribed to some other streaming servies as well.
I never really got in the TV habit and if I lived alone, I doubt I would have a TV.
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Post by workingclassdog on Mar 27, 2023 20:59:21 GMT
We always had a TV (my dad was addicted) I believe we only had b/w for awhile. Then at some point we switched to color. I don't really remember what we had when I was little.. probably one of those big box in a cabinet thing. Then we had one in my parents bedroom, along with the family room. We had a little tiny b/w that was in the kitchen.
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Post by quinlove on Mar 27, 2023 20:59:42 GMT
black and white TV in our playroom with a huge "rabbit ears" tuner to our antenna. We got channels 2 (CBS), 4 (NBC), 5 (local NYC), 7 (ABC), 9, (local NYC), 11 (local NYC) and 13 (PBS.) Sometimes we could get channel 21, NJ PBS. We had basically the same channels in LA, with local NYC replaced by local LA. Same channels in Michigan too. We had a black and white tv in a wood cabinet, with doors. When we got a new color tv ( sometime in the 60s) the old tv cabinet was made into a liquor cabinet. There was a big, metal antenna on our roof. |
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Post by librarylady on Mar 27, 2023 22:19:10 GMT
My family did not have a TV, but we watched when we visited an aunt. Then about 1955 my dad became disabled. A friend bought a B/W TV for us to help fill the day for my father. It sat on a cabinet. A neighbor had a "color TV"--it was a joke and even as a child I thought "WTH?" The TV had a heavy plastic that was in front of the screen with many colors/hues in that plastic "front" that was on the TV. It was just stupid! Imagine a horizontal rainbow of colors across the screen and the B/W images behind that.
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Post by lisae on Mar 28, 2023 0:14:23 GMT
oops, duplicate post below.
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Post by lisae on Mar 28, 2023 0:16:32 GMT
We had a black and white TV. What I remember most was when we purchased our first color TV, a cabinet model. The black and white went to my grandparents. My grandmother didn't want a TV in the house but Mother talked to her and persuaded her to let my grandfather have it. Years later, I thought this was funny because he always seemed to be in charge, but I guess not if she had won the TV battle for the previous 20 years or so.
My other grandmother had a black and white with rabbit ears. She was hard of hearing. She turned it up so loud that my aunt who lived sort of next door (with a vacant field in between) never missed her 'story' when she would hang out her laundry because she could hear the same soap being played loud and clear on her mother-in-law's TV.
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Post by peano on Mar 28, 2023 1:20:56 GMT
Our first tv was B & W and large for the time. I remember our whole family gathering to watch the original Star Trek.
Our second tv was color, and because of this, we hosted all the kids in the neighborhood for a showing of the Batman tv show with Adam West.
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Post by milocat on Mar 28, 2023 1:40:57 GMT
I remember my grandparents had the big cabinet tv. We had a box tv. We had 2 channels, CTV and CBC. CBC had some morning weekday kids shows, once I was done with those I don't remember watching that channel. Dad watched Hockey Night in Canada. So we basically had one channel.
CBC had my favourite childhood show, Mr Dressup, it was on 5 days a week. Fun fact: Mr Rogers had a show on CBC first and Mr Dressup was his assistant. Then Mr Dressup got his own show.
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Post by AussieMeg on Mar 28, 2023 1:45:42 GMT
Our first TV was black & white. I can't really remember what it looked like. Colour TV was first available in Australia in early 1975, when I was 7yo. I can't remember what year we got one, but I do remember that the brand was Rank Arena. To change the channel you had to get up off the couch and turn the dial. We only had four channels back then.
I remember when we got our first TV with a remote control. The remote was attached to the TV by a cord, and it didn't quite reach all the way to our couch, so whoever wanted to change the channels had to sit on the floor in front of the couch. I don't remember what year it was, but I am guessing late 70s or early 80s?
We got our second TV sometime after 1978, when we put a second storey on our house, which included a little recreation room.
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Post by compeateropeator on Mar 28, 2023 2:39:14 GMT
We had a small black and white with Rabbit ears. We (on most days) got channel 3 (wcax cbs), 5 (wptz nbc), 22 (abc) and 33 (pbs), and a Canadian station sometimes…if my memory serves me correctly.
We did not get a big color console TV until I was in high school. But my grandparents had one and they lived next door. They also had the big antenna outside on the house.
I had one friend that did not have a TV, but that was the only person I knew that didn’t have some type of TV.
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Post by brynn on Mar 28, 2023 3:18:00 GMT
My parents got a huge black-in-white TV in 1949 (long before I was born) because the CBS tower was visible from our driveway, and they got great reception. By the time I came along, they also got NBC, but it was pixeled. My sorority house later got cable for $9 a month, so MTV was always on.
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Post by cadoodlebug on Mar 28, 2023 4:24:20 GMT
I shared an apartment with my sister for a few months in 1969. This was our TV.   Thankfully when I got my own apartment in 1972, my dad was working as a bookkeeper for an appliance store. My folks bought me a color TV that was 4 times the size of that little TV! |
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Post by paulao on Mar 28, 2023 13:29:17 GMT
cadoodlebug I love that picture!
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Post by breetheflea on Mar 28, 2023 13:33:24 GMT
It was black and white and I don't remember it. We got a color TV when I was two-ish (1979.)
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Post by karenk on Mar 28, 2023 13:44:55 GMT
Only black and white in my day…the first thing I remember is the coronation of Queen Elizabeth in 1953. And Howdy Doody, and Ding Dong School with Miss Frances.
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Post by quinlove on Mar 28, 2023 14:22:43 GMT
Only black and white in my day…the first thing I remember is the coronation of Queen Elizabeth in 1953. And Howdy Doody, and Ding Dong School with Miss Frances. Yes. And Captain Kangaroo ! |
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Post by Rhondito on Mar 28, 2023 20:51:17 GMT
We always had a tv and I only remember having color. We had a Curtis Mathes console. We had a HUGE outdoor antennae (think flagpole size) with a dial inside to turn it when we changed channels. I was married and living away before cable was even offered in the rural area where my parents lived. The earliest memory I have of watching tv was when I was around 4, I would wake up before my mom in the mornings and watch the Today Show.  |
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Post by Scrappyhappy on Mar 29, 2023 12:46:09 GMT
My family had a 19 inch black and white TV that sat on a rolling cart until 1968. Then they bought a huge console TV that had a stereo built in. It also had louvered doors that covered the TV screen.
I remember a TV repair man coming to the house to fix the TV because it was too big to take in to the repair shop.
For my twelve birthday I got a little black and white TV for my bedroom. I thought I was so cool even though it only got two channels. 😀
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