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Tangential but timely: I haven't watched the Simpsons regularly in about 20 years. However, my internal clock still sounds an alarm every Sunday night about 15
by ethagnawl 2y ago
Tangential but timely: I haven't watched the Simpsons regularly in about 20 years. However, my internal clock still sounds an alarm every Sunday night about 15 mins before showtime.
- macintux 2y agoYou've reminded me of how intensely frustrating it was to be a fan of a TV show pre-WWW and pre-streaming, when networks would shuffle shows between different days and times, trying to find the perfect lineup (or trying to accelerate the demise of an underperforming series).
- Scoundreller 2y agoIn Toronto, we had a slight advantage where the TV channel that played most of the Fox content (Global TV on NTSC channel 6) bled into the tunable FM range so you could at least listen to it on your car radio (or any FM radio for that matter). https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/87.7_FM https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/87.7_FM
- ethagnawl 2y agoThat is so cool. I'd not heard of this "phenomenon" before.
- macintux 2y agoI ran into this a couple of different ways growing up. As with Toronto, on some FM radios I could catch a local Indianapolis TV station. Don’t remember which station off-hand. More concerning, on my boombox, I discovered that could pick up some local cordless phone calls in my neighborhood.
- ethagnawl 2y agoI also remember hearing neighbors' phone calls and baby monitors on the first cordless phone my family had. In addition to the privacy issue, I think we've collectively forgotten just how bad those first few generations of cordless phones were. There was limited range (how about those telescoping antennas?), the sound quality was terrible, the batteries didn't last more than 30-60 mins, etc. In my experience, they weren't worth the trouble or cost until around 1998.