Night of the Living Dave ([info]obliterati) wrote,
@ 2009-06-12 06:38:00
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The first television station ever was WRGB in my home town, channel 6, the NBC affiliate. It was run by General Electric for years and was home to such oddness as "G.E. Theater", which was a variety show filmed downtown hosted by Ronald Reagan. When I was a kid Channel 6 switched with Channel 13, and Channel 6 became CBS and Channel 13 became NBC, and it was always confusing when newscasters switched sides because you could never remember what channel you were watching.

My hometown was subject to the first television dreamworld, the first time they ever tried to raise humans in the wild with these giant talking boxes. It was all done with huge transmitters that irradiated the Mohawk Valley with all their signals, then more channels appeared over time, then generations were raised being dowsed with all these waves and no one thought anything about it.

It's going away now, on my television in Portland only Channel 6 is broadcasting anymore, reporting on elections, explaining words like "pandemic", and documenting the destruction of Dallas.

Madonna can have a second baby from Malawi.

I didn't get my convertor yet, I didn't care, I watch all my television on a computer. Lionel Ritchie is playing a show on an aircraft carrier. Pristiq is a medication proven to fight depression. May increase bleeding risk.

Other channels have become apparent. Buy some fish oil and increase your baby's brain size. Judge Hatchett is mad at the defendant's lies. The Spanish Channel says go to the Spanish Home Depot! Chastity Bono is going to become just simply Bono.

Slow and steady wins the race.

Three minutes left.



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[info]thekamisama
2009-06-12 03:57 pm UTC (link)
We have one low power local station that does not have to convert, so if shit ever does hit the fan, at least we can watch reruns of public domain movies and Beverly Hillbillies while the Apocalypse goes down.

I am also still waiting for a great digital conversion pirate TV prank in some major market.

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[info]obliterati
2009-06-12 04:05 pm UTC (link)
CBS is down now, leaving one of the Spanish channels, the Fox channel on UHF which is now showing some kind of Law & Order, and an old lady selling wrinkle cream on UHF channel 54.

If you are too old and senile to remember to get a convertor, you can watch the wrinkle cream people. If you are busy in jail and cannot get a convertor, Law & Order will still be playing. If you never watched any of the English channels in the first place nothing changed at all.

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[info]obliterati
2009-06-12 04:31 pm UTC (link)
There goes Law & Order.

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[info]rini
2009-06-12 04:36 pm UTC (link)
The only television station we could get in my hometown without cable was Channel 6- the CBS affiliate from your hometown. Every once in a while we could get the ABC affiliate on Channel 10 to come in, but it was always grainy.

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[info]obliterati
2009-06-12 04:54 pm UTC (link)
1984:


WTEN's announcer was actually named Dude Walker.

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[info]obliterati
2009-06-12 04:58 pm UTC (link)
Oh hai I got the wrong one. This one was from 1984. Computer acting funny!

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[info]lolotehe
2009-06-12 06:55 pm UTC (link)
Dallas' destruction has been much over-hyped. Wait until they finish building a toll-road inside the levee system; then it will get interesting.

Incidentally, the disaster control offices are in the basement of city hall, downtown. Very low-laying area, that.

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[info]obliterati
2009-06-12 07:04 pm UTC (link)
I had a friend flying there but I don 't know if he made it with all the cancellations. I mean technically, you don't need electricity on the ground to land a plane right?

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[info]lolotehe
2009-06-12 11:40 pm UTC (link)
Is it an electric plane? You know, you have to discharge those batteries all the way before recharging them because they have a memory and you can brick them easy.

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[info]obliterati
2009-06-13 01:18 am UTC (link)
It's one of those balsa wood jobs in case they have to float.

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