Remember when?📺

[Floyd R. Turbo]

You were the remote control!

[Laffy Kat]

1. Yes, the youngest kid was the remote.

That was me.

[lapfog_1]

2. me too but then there were only 3 channels plus that odd UHF station

[Floyd R. Turbo]

3. And you needed a circular antenna to get the uhf!

[rsdsharp]

5. I grew up in a small town between two television markets

so we got six channels -- two for each network. Both of the ABC channels were a little difficult to receive, however, until they each built 2000 foot towers.

[Laffy Kat]

7. Exactly! LOL.

[Glorfindel]

4. Yes, but I was already nine years old before we got a television

We could get four channels: Two from Atlanta, two from Chattanooga. Channels 2 & 3 were NBC and channels 5 & 12 were CBS. We had to turn the antenna to get the Chattanooga channels, though, so usually we just watched either 2 or 5. Not much labor involved in changing the channel.

[Ohiogal]

6. I had an old b & w portable with a cracked screen

and a handle "fixed" by my dad with duct tape.

My mom "let" me take it with me to college.

We wrapped the antenna with tin foil and attached that to a coat hanger and stuck it out the window to get better reception.