Remember When.

AND, someone usually had to get up and go manually change the channel. I do remember our Zenith TV having a remote control, but I don’t remember exactly what year it was. Probably 62 or 63.

Yes, the good old days. And would you believe we survived with only 7 channels? 

that's funny! I'm about to send it on to my hospital volunteer colleagues. There's a lot of young folk amongst us these days. I wonder if they would get it??

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Yes, the good old days. And would you believe we survived with only 7 channels? 

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What the H E double hockeysticks 🤬 we only had 3 in Buffalo 👺

 

@100ford2003.Yes Buffalo. Channel 7 WKBW, Channel 4 WBEN and Channel 2 WGR. And if you had an outside ROTARY antenna on the roof of your house you might pickup Rochester NY or Hamilton and Toronto, Canada on a clear night. My favourite show was The Life of Riley which we could only pickup on Rochester channel periodically.

Funny cartoon David. Priceless what images come to a child's mind.

Shirl and I were talking about this last night. My family had our first TV in 1949. It was a Muntz and we had a rabbit ears antenna. I know because I saw the photos. I also recall watching the Lone Ranger on that TV in 1949. We only got 3 channels, ABC, CBS & NBC. Sometime about 1950 or '51, Dad put an antenna on the roof. But I was still the remote control!!

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Yes, the good old days. And would you believe we survived with only 7 channels? 

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What the H E double hockeysticks 🤬 we only had 3 in Buffalo 👺

 

 In 1951, the New York City metropolitan area was served by seven VHF television channels. This lineup featured a mix of network-owned stations and prominent independent stations:

• Channel 2: WCBS-TV – The flagship station for the CBS network. [1, 2]
• Channel 4: WNBT – The flagship station for the NBC network (which later changed its call letters to WRCA-TV and eventually WNBC). [1, 2]
• Channel 5: WABD – The flagship station for the pioneering DuMont Television Network (later became WNEW-TV and is today's Fox affiliate, WNYW). [1, 2, 3]
• Channel 7: WJZ-TV – The flagship station for the ABC network (renamed WABC-TV in 1953). [1, 2, 3]
• Channel 9: WOR-TV – An Independent station owned by the Bamberger Broadcasting Service/Macy's (later became WWOR-TV). [1, 2]
• Channel 11: WPIX – An Independent station owned and operated by The New York Daily News. [1]
• Channel 13: WATV – An Independent station licensed to Newark, New Jersey, but broadcasting to the whole NYC market (it later became WNTA-TV and is today the primary PBS member station, WNET). [1, 2]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Yep, remember them well, we only had a handful of channels, out of Dayton, plus our local station. I also had that remote control job.😂🤣

I only remember channels 2,4 & 7 and WKBW as ch.7

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@100ford2003.Yes Buffalo. Channel 7 WKBW, Channel 4 WBEN and Channel 2 WGR. And if you had an outside ROTARY antenna on the roof of your house you might pickup Rochester NY or Hamilton and Toronto, Canada on a clear night. My favourite show was The Life of Riley which we could only pickup on Rochester channel periodically.

Thanks Ken for that “blast ftom the past”! I also remember the Life of Riley with William Bendix. One of my favorite TV shows growing up was The Nelsons.

@sizedoesmatter John, they look like the channels we had out on Long Island.  I remember all the same that others have.  3 boys in the house so we were the channel changers.  Usually the one sitting the closest.

In KC we had the big 3 and 1 Uhf channel. Besides getting up to change channels, we had to move the rabbit ears for better reception. I watched amongst others, Cisco Kid, Lone Ranger and Sky King and lots of cartoons.

@grockwood 

Sky King was a great series !!