Subj : Re: Robot Holocaust (1987
To   : COUGAR428
From : Dumas Walker
Date : Fri Mar 10 2023 04:37 pm

> -=> Quoting Poindexter Fortran to Arelor <=-

>  PF> I grew up watching a lot of UHF TV. We had a couple of local channels
>  PF> that played campy films, obtained at a low cost by these stations with
>  PF> low budgets. One played bad films until dawn on the weekends.

> When I grew up, the television stations played the national anthem
> at midnight, then up came a test pattern for a few minutes, then
> static until 6AM.

I remember that also.  A couple of our local stations signed off around
11PM or so at the time.  In the Summer, I would stay up late to see that
and always thought it was so neat.


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