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I remember watching cartoons.

Beetlejuice — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 23:02:57 +0000

I remember watching cartoons. Lots of animals type characters doing crazy things...rube goldberg stuff...nothing I can remember, but it was all done to classical music...no voices It's the only thing I remember. Oddly, when I hear certain pieces of classical music, sometimes I have a flashback to one of those cartoons. In many cases, I can't remember precisely which which cartoon was mated with a specific piece of music, but I do remember when I first heard it. Peer Gynt was definitely one used.

Philo Farnsworth, (1906-1971)

NCD — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 22:52:32 +0000

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Philo Farnsworth, (1906-1971) the self taught farm boy born in a log cabin in Beaver, Utah was an electronic genius who held 162 patents related to TV and electronic imaging. He invented the first TV camera. As TV went commercial he was so disappointed by the content (in the 1950's!) that his son said his Dad's judgment on TV could be summarized as:

"There’s nothing on it worthwhile, and we’re not going to watch it in this household, and I don’t want it in your intellectual diet."

Farnsworth said he developed his idea of rendering a TV image from the furrows in a farm's plowed field.

The television and radio

EmmaZahn — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 05:15:13 +0000

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The television and radio programming of the 50s, 60s and 70s made us Boomers the most homogenized generation in history. We are an historical anomaly and yet are often quite certain our way is the only way anything was ever done. :)

From memory: "Crest has been shown to be an effective decay preventive dentifrice that can be of significant value when used in a conscientiously applied program of oral hygiene and regular professional care". That must have been every other commercial in the 60s.

Ah, nostalgia.

I was generally shocked when

cmaukonen — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 03:56:53 +0000

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I was generally shocked when I entered 1st grad and my teacher was the antithesis of Ms. Francis of Ding Dong School.

I swear my first memory of TV

Richard Day — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 03:42:55 +0000

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I swear my first memory of TV was when Grandmama picked me up and set me infront of one with finger paints.

And the lady was teaching finger painting.

I was literally lifted up and put into a different dimmension.

To this day, I still cannot draw!

WMFE selling its Orlando TV

cmaukonen — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 03:14:36 +0000

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WMFE selling its Orlando TV station PBS lineup will be found on two other Central Florida stations

After more than 45 years of providing public television programming in Central Florida, WMFE is selling its Orlando station, Channel 24, to concentrate on radio.
That means viewers will have to find shows such as "Sesame Street," "Masterpiece" and "PBS NewsHour" on the two other local public television stations -- WDSC in Daytona and WBCC in Cocoa. Both stations are available to customers of Bright House Networks, the largest cable provider in Central Florida.
Jose Fajardo, president and CEO of WMFE, said he won't be able to confirm the buyer and price until the information becomes public through FCC filings. The WMFE board voted unanimously Monday night to accept the offer for the TV station.
"We've been talking about it the last eight to nine months," Fajardo said. "We've looking at every single alternative."