Subj : Re: Robot Holocaust (1987
To   : Cougar428
From : Moondog
Date : Fri Mar 10 2023 10:16 am

 Re: Re: Robot Holocaust (1987
 By: Cougar428 to POINDEXTER FORTRAN on Thu Mar 09 2023 10:57 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.
>
> Then they played the the pledge of allegiance and back to the
> morning shows.
>
> Guess I'm showing my age.  Now the things that overstimulate your
> mind keep going 24 hours a day.  And forget the national anthem, you
> won't hear that.
>
> Cougar
>
> ... I yam ehav tlsedet ni spgpinhi.
>
> ___ Blue Wave/QWK v2.20
>

The networks expanded their programming to meet the older early bird  and late
night owl crowd.  The early bird news is less likely to be channel surfed,
which is better for advertisers.  You can tell it's targetted towards senior
citizens because the major advertisers are Gold Bond Powder, adult
diapers, and Geritol

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