Does anyone remember the broadcasters playing the national anthem and the flag waving...before going to white noise at midnight?

@andrewcaldwell5026

3 жыл бұрын

And that poem about “slipping the surly bonds of earth”.

@Litauen-yg9ut

3 жыл бұрын

Yep

@janemariebennett3973

3 жыл бұрын

Of course!!

@nickduxfield4324

3 жыл бұрын

we had the goodnight kiwi that climbed up to the top of the tv station and went to sleep

@saffirechanning7286

2 жыл бұрын

Oh, I sure do remember those days! I was a child in those days. To me, when the TV went off the air, it was like the end of the world! Now TV is broadcast 24/7

History deserves to be remembered: I was the first remote control device. "Change the channel, boy"!😁

@georget8008

4 жыл бұрын

Me again? Why don't you send ..... (insert the name of a younger sibling ). Hahaha.... The same story all over the world up until the invention of the remote control!

@michaelwalton4017

4 жыл бұрын

@@georget8008 My sister was the first automatic dishwasher!

@ianfarr-wharton1000

4 жыл бұрын

WRONG!!!! The Australian inventor Henry Sutton developed the TV in 1880... Every one forgets out side of Australia..

@ianfarr-wharton1000

4 жыл бұрын

The TV came from Henry Sutton www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFDMK... the inventor every one has forgoton.

@ronfullerton3162

4 жыл бұрын

@@georget8008 That or else whoever was in the doghouse. Another residing factor was some good or not so good competition factor. Other times, maybe a threat of change it or else!

History Guy, I’ve been a Television engineer for over 40 years and my mentors were some of the earlier post-WWII pioneers. It’s a topic with a rich and complicated history. You nailed it my friend. Your chronology was spot-on and you also included multiple threads beyond terrestrial TV into cable, satellite and internet TV services. Nice job.

@PsRohrbaugh

Жыл бұрын

That's some high praise!

@darlenebattle2713

10 ай бұрын

He layered everything very well.

I used to be a TV repairman, when I first started fixing TVs they were still using tubes and about half of them were using transistors, I am amazed by how much they have changed

@Wiencourager

2 жыл бұрын

There’s still demand for that from TV collectors.

@kirdot2011

10 ай бұрын

Btw i havent felt the need to watch tv ever since i discovered youtube in 2010

@marguskiis7711

10 ай бұрын

The breaking point was only ca 15 -- 10 years ago.

@fromthesidelines

10 ай бұрын

"I likes to work with nobody around. No silly questions like, uh, ‘What are all the tubes for?’ As if anyone *knows."* -Huckleberry Hound, "Two For Tee Vee" (1962)

In 1980 my father sent me to town to buy a new television to replace our old black and white that finally died. I came back with a new color set and he threw a fit about me wasting money on color when black and white was good enough. I listened to his rant and when he stopped I told him They had quit selling black and white sets because everyone wanted color. He shook his head and said, "This country is going to Hell!". There you have it History Guy, the moment the country started down the road to perdition as predicted by my father.

@johnw2026

4 жыл бұрын

Perfect! 😆

@ronfullerton3162

4 жыл бұрын

Oh boy but I could just about hear that conversation word for word in my head! I bet lots of us heard a similar conversation like that sometime or another.

@cedainty

4 жыл бұрын

Fathersnsaid that when the popular dance of the day was the "Turkey trot". And don't forget ELVIS!! We had a BW tv until 1961 or so. The old color sets had a real hard time producing a decent grass green color. You had to adjust to color guns, the red and the green, to get yellow and that would send the green gun nuts trying to give a decent green. It always looked like mud because the brightness had to be adjusted also. What a mess. And don't forget that the crt had a flat-ish screen so the rays had to be bent to allow them to hit the right dot. That was the convergence and depending on the brand of tv, the convergence could be a headache!

@deadfreightwest5956

4 жыл бұрын

We had B&W sets up until the mid 70s, when Dad brought home a 19" Philco-Ford color set, a used one apparently bought cheap from a motel. The green gun was essentially shot, so everything that wasn't red, blue or magenta looked very odd. I remember visiting the neighbors and they had a Trinitron. They were watching football. My jaw hit the floor when I saw the field was green!

@joemackey1950

4 жыл бұрын

Saw my first colour show c. 1957, Perry Como show. He was wearing a red sweater. Remembering like it was yesterday.

The Irony is that the quality of information transmitted by TV has been declining for some time. That in turn causes the discerning viewer to seek internet channels like The History Guy.

4 жыл бұрын

TV isn't the only game in town anymore. At least 90% is unwatchable hot garbage. Of course , the internet is full of idiocy also...

@roberthurley3941

4 жыл бұрын

It’s not just TV it’s all knowledge. 100 years ago the average library had a larger non-fiction section than fiction. Not so today.

@glennso47

4 жыл бұрын

Irony is what water tastes like if you get new pipes in your house.

@Mnogojazyk

4 жыл бұрын

@@roberthurley3941, point of clarification: the average public library. Academic, research, and special libraries still overwhelmingly carry nonfiction over fiction with one exception: Libraries dedicated to fiction writers, as you might expect, have a large section of the writers' work. But they also carry research material about the writer timself and tis life.

@sebione3576

4 жыл бұрын

@@roberthurley3941 so true. Nowadays, nonfiction is also fiction.

6.1 million hours watching THG sounds like time wisely invested.

@raybin6873

4 жыл бұрын

Done on a much lower budget than those "history channel "type programs too!

@cynthiaclarke3979

3 жыл бұрын

My husband said,if his dad was still alive..he could easily past 6.1 million hours in internet porn easy..LOL..

@drlong08

2 жыл бұрын

Your brain cells will thank you.....

@johnstreyle85

Жыл бұрын

One omission: Nazi Germany had regular TV broadcasting in service, starting before WWII.

I remember the TV repairman coming to the house every few months to replace tubes and realign the channel dial with the station numbers!

The History Guy has dramatically increased my screen time.

@TheOldGord

4 жыл бұрын

gb He has increased mine along with Mark Felton as well. This type of programming isn’t broadcast on tv any more.

@billd.iniowa2263

4 жыл бұрын

@@TheOldGord Love Mark's work. I'm a WWII buff from way back, and I'm always learning new things from his videos.

@Russia-bullies

4 жыл бұрын

😀 Mine too!

I will say it again: This is simply one of the finest channels on KZread.

@cesarebeccaria7641

4 жыл бұрын

Agreed. I just discovered it yesterday. Excellent presenter, good topics, and it is made for our modern limited attention span! I've started spreading the word.

@DesertVan

4 жыл бұрын

I really like how he just states facts and doesn’t interject opinions or politics. Its rare to see the anymore.

@-.Steven

4 жыл бұрын

AMEN!!!

@seariakett4209

4 жыл бұрын

*I couldn't agree more.* Not "one of the finest History channels" but one of the finest channels ... period.

@josemoreno3334

4 жыл бұрын

Sure is.

Being born in 1984. I remember this “older times” well. I even had a family console tv with just locals, then C Band, then finally cable. I had to go to a relatives house to see channels I didn’t get at home. I never even saw Cartoon Network til 1998. I grew up on afternoon Wonder Years, Saturday morning cartoons, and PBS for everything else. Explains my love for This Old House. This channel by the way is amazing. Watching videos of yours sir is like sitting next to a warm fire on a winters night. Or A/C on a very hot day. lol

I watch about 2 hours of broadcast TV every day, one hour of which are old MASH reruns. I'm embarrassed to tell you how much time I spend watching The History Guy every day!

Like Sir I can remember when stations shutdown their broadcasts at 12am with a picture of our flag and the playing of our national anthem. Have times changed! Great lesson History Guy!

@davidvogel6359

4 жыл бұрын

This is still a good idea

@MrWATCHthisWAY

4 жыл бұрын

david vogel - sometimes we just need to decompress! But I always felt bad for my mom when she would get home late from working and she needed to unwind. She would quietly read and slowly drift off to sleep on our couch. Maybe that was for the better.

@Houndini

4 жыл бұрын

I remember in 80's we still had local TV stations shut down near midnight. They was nothing on TV until 6 am if lucky . And God bless if President was on TV across All channels was his ugly face no matter what.

@davidvogel6359

4 жыл бұрын

@@MrWATCHthisWAY I am sure it was with the relaxing time to be ready for sleeping.

@JTA1961

4 жыл бұрын

& then the " maggot races" 📉😎📈

"The History Guy is not that big a channel by KZread standards..." Maybe so, but it IS one of the very best! You are Awesome!

@davidlafleche1142

4 жыл бұрын

That's why it isn't big.

@Buckl

3 жыл бұрын

Agreed.

@MausMasher54

3 жыл бұрын

@thomas fraley I get information overload at times with 3 monitors and HSP internet...THG is one of the best factual and entertaining at the same time, lots of morsels not necessarily seen in the school textbooks.....

@Shmatco2009

3 жыл бұрын

Absolutely!

@jamespn

3 жыл бұрын

@thomas fraley leaning something new it’s like brain endorphins.

One thing we lost with the internet was the fun of anticipating the Sunday night TV shows when the family would gather together sometimes with food and drinks. miss that so much. We would be out playing or trying to finish our homework which we should have done friday afternoon when Mom would call us to say our show was on.

Interesting history. I tossed my widescreen TV when it broke down ten years ago. I didn't replace it and I've been without a TV for all that time. Don't miss it at all.

@urbanurchin5930

2 жыл бұрын

Another story: over the past 10 years or so, I have accumulated three flat screen T.V.s. My Mom gave me one when she downsized, my nephew gave me one when he bought a new one, and a neighbor gave me one that he said "took-up too much room". All three work perfectly - the only issue - I already had a perfectly good T.V. that was in this house when I moved in. It must be from the early 2000's and works very well. I cancelled my cable about three years ago and don't miss it either. It is still hooked-up to my VCR and DVD players so I can watch my nearly 1200 titles on tape and disks anytime.

@maggiepatterson7949

Жыл бұрын

I tossed my TV can't remember how many years ago..at least 10, or more. I got sick of paying for cable, satellite, etc and WATCHING ADS. I was watching a Steelers football game and timed the amount of time for the game, vs the amount of time spent on ads. It was like two minutes of game vs five of ads...constantly. Got up, called the company and CANCELLED IMMEDIATELY. So sick of paying to watch ads! I too never regretted it.

As a Broadcast Engineer, just wanted to say: you nailed this. No surprise of course.

@dalethelander3781

4 жыл бұрын

Are you down with "Madman" Muntz?

@ianfarr-wharton1000

4 жыл бұрын

WRONG!!!! The Australian inventor Henry Sutton developed the TV in 1880... Every one forgets out side of Australia..

@glennso47

4 жыл бұрын

Do you drive the choo choo train since you are an engineer?😁

@jaymarcum5764

4 жыл бұрын

@@glennso47 just make sure that the train that a broadcast facility is stays on the air 😂

@ianfarr-wharton1000

4 жыл бұрын

Here is for all the dumb as dog shit people. :- Arguably his most famous invention, the telephane, was used to transmit an image from the Melbourne Cup along telegraph wires to Ballarat in 1885.. www.abc.net.au/news/2018-12-04/why-have-we-forgotten-australias-edison/10567060

The History Guy: Deserves to be regarded

4 жыл бұрын

He is highly regarded by many. Myself included.

My grandmother told me how her father made a Nipkow disk TV in the 1930's. In Philadelphia there was one broadcast a week. She told me about watching an orchestra playing and she said the picture wasn't all that good.

This is a challenging topic to fit into your short video time limit. Intercarrier sound was actually developed during WWII. The 2 biggest things that prevented Television from becoming established in the US Pre-WWII were lack of standardization and lack of permission for commercial broadcasting. Television stations prior to the FCC creating the NTSC standard (which solved both issues) could only opperate in the capacity of an Amatuer/Ham radio station experimenting with the technology, but not broadcasting commercials or opperating in a capacity in which the station could earn revenue from it's service. One of the first major public demonstrations of electronic television in the USA was the 1939 Worlds Fair...At that point RCA had an 411 line AM video AM sound TV system, Philco had an 800 line system and other companies (like Zenith and Dumont) experimenting with TV pre-war had other systems. The line count, frame rate, sync signals (to time start of line and frame), use of interlacing, and RF modulation had to all be the same or close between transmitter and reciever for things to work. The FCC was slow and reluctant to adopt a standard believing the technology was not yet mature. RCA believed it to be mature after the World's Fair demo and started selling its 411 line sets to the public which provoked the FCC into working with industry to create the NTSC standard. The NTSC standard and the commercial broadcasting it allowed did not commence until June of 1941, and the NTSC standard did not conform to any manufactuer's existing experimental systems requiring new engineering for compatibility...Electronics then had a similar model year release and development cycle to cars and Pearl Harbor happened while our electronic industry wa sgearing up for TV. Had WWII taken another year or 2 to start or the NTCS standard been created earlier, then pre-war electronic TV would have been atleast as popular in the US as in Brittan where it had been standardized and and made a service of the BBC in the mid-30's. TV if standardized for commercial broadcast would have taken off even in depression era America. In the opening years of the depression radio was one of the only growing industries in America. Yes many of the small brands especially ones with finances tied to the stock market died at the beginning of the depression, but the companies that remained flourished. A family with little disposible income could save money and get unending news entertainment by cutting off spending on newspapers, movies, phonograph records, etc and instead purchasing a radio. The history of color television development in the US especially at the technological and market level I could write a book on...At the global level there were interesting geopolitical and technological stories behind the later PAL and SECAM systems and bizzare cross polination between the european and US monochrome and color standards.

The earliest I remember was a few channels and bunny ears. The remote consisted of my father telling me to get up and change the channel, and when the knob broke, we used a pair of pliers. Does anyone remember when stations used to sign off each day for a few hours?

@TheHistoryGuyChannel

4 жыл бұрын

Always signed off by playing the national anthem.

@timweatherill3738

4 жыл бұрын

@@TheHistoryGuyChannel Same thing just to the north in Canada; the flag and "Oh Canada", then nighty-night, nation.

@williamkeith8944

4 жыл бұрын

Same thing in my home!

@Abbeville_Kid

4 жыл бұрын

The History Guy: History Deserves to Be Remembered yep

@farmerandy

4 жыл бұрын

@@TheHistoryGuyChannel or Ray Charles singing America the beautiful!

Coffee and history is how my morning goes now..

@vicaroo001

4 жыл бұрын

Me too!

@Vodhin

4 жыл бұрын

I'll take mine with milk and sugar, please 😊

@Exedus20

4 жыл бұрын

History of coffee... has he done it yet?

@jeffdutton1910

4 жыл бұрын

me too

@voidremoved

4 жыл бұрын

@@Exedus20 I would rather know the history behind milk and sugar. Also I like coffee and history. The Bible Project has lots of history to learn on their channel too

TV from the MOON! A highlight of my career as a photojournalist was meeting Mike Collins, Command Module Pilot of Apollo 11, the first manned lunar landing. I met Collins because he was taking part in honoring local resident Stan Labar, who developed the TV camera that allowed the world to watch live as Neil Armstrong took his first step on the lunar surface. I was 12 in 1969, and I still vividly remember watching those ghostly images of Armstrong, on my family’s first color television we’d gotten just a year before as Apollo 8 first orbited the moon. As for rasterization…the Associated Press sent photos to news outlets around the world using rasterization well into the 1980s. How much time did I spend listening to the machine creating line after line…

@Gail1Marie

Жыл бұрын

My husband was a high school paperboy, and used all his hard-earned savings to purchase a color TV to watch the Apollo 11 moon landing. Was he disappointed when the transmission from the moon was in black and white! (All subsequent ones were in color, however.)

THG I am 70 years old and I am very happy you made this video I was a broadcast engineer and even a TV repair man 1971-1981 as a certified electronic technician and had my hands on that Tecnology until I retired in 2016 how about doing a story on the history of the generation of electric power and distribution. 😊

@jamesmiller4184

Жыл бұрын

Vacuum tubes! Now collected as works of art practically.

The History Guy is discussing factual, verified history, and releasing his content for free via KZread. The paid cable counterpart of The History Channel is creating content about ancient aliens and conspiracy theories. No wonder why more people are getting becoming cable cutters and getting their content from History Guy/Veritasium/other quality KZread channels. Great stuff HG... keep up the good work!

@jimschofield8734

4 жыл бұрын

:D ... Yeah ....... Even the weirdo conspiracy stuff has better (much less BS) equivalents on youtube (Dark Docs)... Another superb totally legit history channel is World War 2 in real time (/Timeghost). They're producing superb content... I think it's much better than what the History Channel produced even back when HC were producing war documentaries based on actual history :D

@ianfarr-wharton1000

4 жыл бұрын

WRONG!!!! The Australian inventor Henry Sutton developed the TV in 1880... Every one forgets out side of Australia..

@normanmazlin6741

4 жыл бұрын

@@ianfarr-wharton1000 He designed a mechanical 'telephany' video transmitter and receiver system, but it was never built as it relied on wires for transmission because the radio had not arrived. A brilliant Australian.

@ianfarr-wharton1000

4 жыл бұрын

@@normanmazlin6741 It did work, He filmed the Melbourne cup, he also invented the light bulb. If you look into his work, he rewrites history.. he is the inventor every one forgets.

@ianfarr-wharton1000

4 жыл бұрын

@@normanmazlin6741Arguably his most famous invention, the telephane, was used to transmit an image from the Melbourne Cup along telegraph wires to Ballarat in 1885.. www.abc.net.au/news/2018-12-04/why-have-we-forgotten-australias-edison/10567060

As Mr. Rogers was to children's television, so you are to KZread- you make content worth watching and help to legitimize what might otherwise be a wasteland of cat videos, epic fails, and "hold my beer" moments of stupidity.

@warrenny

4 жыл бұрын

Seated LIberty: History Guy is worthy content! Cat from video: Hold my beer

@WillWilsonII

4 жыл бұрын

I thought the one with the blonde lady and the cat was Penny yelling at soft kitty

I am old enough to remember the day I first heard of television I was about 4 yrs old...there was only one channel and it didn't come on air til three o'clock pm..my neighbors had bought a new TV...and I can also say that the inventor of TV is my dad's cousin.. Mr Farnsworth...but that's dating me bad enough I guess...I love your channel and hope to see a lot more of your smiling face

I remember UHF and VHF and having 3 networks and PBS. This was a serious trip down memory lane. Thank you, THG!

If studying history in high school had been as entertaining as it is watching The History Guy, I would have enjoyed high school so much more. Doesn't matter what the subject is, you make it fun, thoroughly enjoyable. At that point, learning becomes easy.

@reneemeyers6251

4 жыл бұрын

Absolutely!

@suleskos.2743

4 жыл бұрын

Thats true! My family in general loves history, but my elementary school history teacher really secured my love for the subject. I passed that love along to my daughter, whom upon 8th grade graduation, was given a newly created award from the history teacher for her advanced understanding and passion, (and she went to a private school so awards did not come easily!).

@glennso47

4 жыл бұрын

Scotty Kilmer has started a new KZread channel about cars. He's doing a history of Toyota automobiles.

I remember when I was the TV remote... as in: "Son, get up and go change the channel please."

@FiferSkipper

4 жыл бұрын

At least you got a 'please' LOL! And don't forget the machine-gun sound when you turned the knob really fast!

@bat2293

4 жыл бұрын

@@FiferSkipper - My Dad was a WWII Marine and had a very unique way of saying "PLEASE". (It loosely translated to - Get up off your penguin butt and change the G.D. channel or I will whoop your ass good.) I think he learned it from a Drill Instructor. Oh, I had forgotten about the "machine-gun sound". Had a lot of fun with that.

@CookieDoh

4 жыл бұрын

And we changed that channel with a pair of pliers.

@CookieDoh

4 жыл бұрын

@Tucsoncoyote 2019: Yes, yes I did.

@diannt9583

4 жыл бұрын

Actually, I was in my room doing homework, so they changed their channels themselves.

When I started junior high. In 1990 I went into the tv servicing field when school was out for summer and learned a lot

Growing up in Alaska, 60’s & 70’s, we had only one channel. Not until we moved to the contiguous states did I discover that there were THREE channels! Totally blew my mind 🤯

You forgot to mention the early remote control televisions; "Boy! Go change the channel!"

@cynthiaslater7445

4 жыл бұрын

The Monty Python sketch! Too funny!

@terrygrossmann2295

4 жыл бұрын

Yep. All worked by voice command. Boy turn on the TV, boy turn the volume up, boy adjust the antenna, boy change the channel, and boy get me a beer.

@oaf-77

4 жыл бұрын

Unless you lose the pliers

Glad The History Guy is getting so much attention. Love this channel.

@ianfarr-wharton1000

4 жыл бұрын

WRONG!!!! The Australian inventor Henry Sutton developed the TV in 1880... Every one forgets out side of Australia..

@SamPanamaOfficial

4 жыл бұрын

@@ianfarr-wharton1000 I know Sutton designed a version of television, but I don't think he ever successfully built a functioning one.

@ianfarr-wharton1000

4 жыл бұрын

@@SamPanamaOfficial Not just theTV came from Henry Sutton www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFDMK... the inventor every one has forgoton.

@ianfarr-wharton1000

4 жыл бұрын

@@SamPanamaOfficialIt did work, He filmed the Melbourne cup, he also invented the light bulb. If you look into his work, he rewrites history.. he is the inventor every one forgets.

@IndependentBear

4 жыл бұрын

@@ianfarr-wharton1000 Sutton NEVER demonstrated his idea for mechanically sending images. Sutton did develop the use of galena crystals to detect radio waves which was a great step forward for early radio.

Yet another valuable and interesting episode. Viewing this on my solid-state flat screen computer monitor, I was reminded of my first encounter with television. It was 1958, so I was age 9 or 10, and it was in Canada. One day in the coming week my father was going to be interviewed on a Toronto TV station, so the family rented a set for a week so we could watch at the proper time. (Everything was "live" in those days.) The screen was round, probably about 10 inches (254 mm) in diameter, and everything was in shades of GREEN. (Years later I became very familiar with that particular shade of green because of a long career in electronics, using and maintaining instruments such as oscilloscopes and spectrum analyzers. That made me realize that the old round TV receiver probably used a single green phosphor on the screen, just like the electronic instruments.)

I enjoyed this content reminiscing of an old portable black and white AM/FM/UHF - weather band TV that over the years required balled up aluminum foil to aid in its reception but in todays age; I don't even own a TV. Being able to build my own PC and watch what I'm interested in over the internet suits this 56 year old man just fine. Thank you for your contributions so even my 27 year old son might understand that back in the day we had to get up and cross the room to change channels of which there were only four to choose from...

Idk why but this episode made me think of Back to the Future: Oh honey he's teasing! Nobody has 2 television sets!

@glennso47

4 жыл бұрын

You may not like this, but your kids will love it!

@jimmym3352

4 жыл бұрын

I actually had a tv in my bedroom in the 80's, but it was an old black and white tv. Not sure how old it was, but amazing that tv's could last so long back in those days.

@AlphaGeekgirl

4 жыл бұрын

Jimmy M I still have mine that I bought in 1980.

@sebione3576

4 жыл бұрын

@@glennso47 it's not that they didn't like it. They just weren't ready for it :)

@Hibernicus1968

2 жыл бұрын

@@jimmym3352 I had the exact same setup. We had a big color set in the living room, and I had an old black and white hand-me-down in my bedroom. I used to watch Star Trek on it 5 nights a week just after dinner.

I remember taking a bus ride with my dad in 1963 to buy our first TV. It was a big day in our house. He went all out and got the rabbit ears tv top antenna to. I think it was a 14" B&W. The first big thing I remember watching was a Mercury space launch. Romper room was one of the first kids shows I ever saw. When that lady said my name looking through the magic looking Glass, I lost my mind. Later that year I watched the funeral procession of JFK on that TV. When people ask,"where were you when that happened, I remember that TV, the bus ride to get it and my dad.

Enjoyed this history. As an 8 year old boy in 1955 Amsterdam, we had Saturday and Wednesday afternoon off from school. I can clearly remember going to the house of a rich school friend whose dad ran a shoe store. We,were all invited to watch cartoons..it was magic at the time!

@marcusdamberger

2 жыл бұрын

So you had school on Sundays too? I know when we lived in Germany for a year they had school on Saturdays, but only mornings, not a full day. Sunday was off. But if you were in grade school, you didn't have Saturday morning school like when you went to the Gymnasium. Back in the U.S. we had both Saturdays and Sundays off, and summer break was three months long.

@fredherfst8148

2 жыл бұрын

@@marcusdamberger no. Sundays were for dressing up to go to church and have coffee and cakes with family after

"The tube is on the blink"....one of the horror sayings of my childhood :(

When my TV broke I would take the tubes to the 7-Eleven store to test them. K-mart sold the tubes cheaper. Does anyone remember having to SMACK the TV when it went wonky?

@gregorymalchuk272

4 жыл бұрын

I wonder when the last year K Mart actually sold vacuum tubes.

@daveapplemotors

4 жыл бұрын

@@gregorymalchuk272 mid to late seventies, my guess.

@glennso47

4 жыл бұрын

I remember when my younger brother got a mouth full of water and spit it into the back of the tv set. Wasn't pretty!!

@BrandonTWills

3 жыл бұрын

I miss just hitting things to make them work better. Those crazy baby boomers & their shell shocked parents, the g generation used the same solution for everything; just smack it till it does what you want. There is a certain “elegance” to that simplistic thinking.

@daveapplemotors

3 жыл бұрын

@@glennso47 My best laugh today. Thanks.

6.1 million hours?! That's 11 lifetimes assuming an 80 year life!

@getredytagetredy

4 жыл бұрын

Chris Dykstra ..You tube is probably lying...lol..

@jerrykew

4 жыл бұрын

getredytagetredy why would they?

@RaoulThomas007

4 жыл бұрын

How many times to the moon 🌝 is that?

@Content3D

4 жыл бұрын

Congratulations. Let's assume 24 million viewers watch one 15 minute segment: 6.1 million hours.

In the UK the BBC started broadcasting a regular television service in 1936. They broadcast a whole range of programmes... Plays, Talks, Music, Variety, Cartoons, Hobbies, Sports etc either from their studios or from Outside (Remote) Broadcast units that covered football matches, circuses, and London West End Theatres for example. Programme listings were printed in the Radio Times and some newspapers. By the outbreak of WW2 in September 1939 it was estimated that there were about 19,000 TV sets in use in people's homes in the UK, all within about a 50 mile radius of London as that was the sole transmitter until the service began to expand post WW2.

As a child I had 4 channels available to watch - ABC, CBS, NBC, and independent WGN here in Chicago. WGN was owned by the Chicago Tribune newspaper. We lived in an apartment building and had a roof antenna hooked to the TV set. Like you I am amazed at all the changes that have happened. That TV shown at 8:20 could pass for the one I watched TV on if only it was a blond cabinet Sentinal TV made in Evanston, Illinois and sold by Marshall Field, sitting on that wrought iron stand BTW I celebrated my 75th birthday last month.

@cathyallen6541

3 жыл бұрын

Congratulations, happy birthday!

@michaelzell5905

5 ай бұрын

We had the first Cablevision on our block in Iowa 1979, and WGN was one of the offerings. They showed legendary shows like the our gang shorts and the original flash gordon. Great stuff.

When I went to school, they taught history, and I really like it. History repeats itself if it is forgotten.

@glennso47

4 жыл бұрын

I just got a pop up from a website that I subscribe to. The headline says "Is Your Smart TV Spying On You?" Remember when tv sets were just "stupid" rather than "smart"?"

@cleanlee193

4 жыл бұрын

Del Evans think about why Napoleon didn’t take over the world....he tried to fight a land war in Russia and wasn’t prepared for the intense cold and couldn’t get supplies like he needed. He lost over 300,000 Troops and had to retreat. So, why did hitler lose world war 2 over a 130 years later ? History repeats itself if you don’t learn from it. That’s how we know

@jefferyrightmire9520

4 жыл бұрын

@Del Evans I studied it and many times in my 63 years it already has.

@Psychol-Snooper

4 жыл бұрын

It repeats itself if it's not forgotten as well. The Jews returning to Palestine would be a prime example.

"Good news everyone! I've invented the electronic television!" - farnsworth

@deadfreightwest5956

4 жыл бұрын

"And using my patented Finglonger, it can be controlled remotely!"

@glennso47

4 жыл бұрын

@@deadfreightwest5956 Now we can get intergalactic tv shows from the planet Floog.

@roberthorwat6747

4 жыл бұрын

@Timothy McCaskey I read that in my mind in Hubert J. Farnsworth's voice (of course!)🤣

@stewydoo

4 жыл бұрын

I was looking for this reference

Born in 1947, I certainly remember those 3-channel days. Living a little north of Baltimore, we'd sometimes get a station out of D.C. too. Wowzers ... And there's more: My father worked all his life for Bendix Radio. He had his own TV \ radio repair business on the side, and sometime's he'd bring a "set" home to tinker with. With the back removed, I got to see what was actually in the box - The picture tube, other tubes, resistors, capacitors, and lots of wire : )

It’s not just the history but the way you present it that makes this such an amazing channel. Thank you for sharing your love with us and helping me like learning history.

I am so old that I remember when the newspaper was made of PAPER !

@glennso47

4 жыл бұрын

Jake Dee I’m so old I remember when dirt was invented,

@WillWilsonII

4 жыл бұрын

I went to buy a paper at a gas station......2 dollars? Since when? I thought it would be 25 cents. I just wanted to light the barbeque. I didn't even bother bringing any more money.

@jakedee4117

4 жыл бұрын

@@WillWilsonII I am so old that I remember when money was made out of PAPER !

@webbtrekker534

4 жыл бұрын

The Sunday paper had TWO Comic sections of two full sheets and one half sheet. My brother and I would fight who got to read what first.

@CraftyZanTub

4 жыл бұрын

Now the newspaper, the television, and the computer come in one device, often small enough to fit in your pocket.

For me, history become much more interesting in video form, especially History Guy-style. I can look at relevant photos while listening to history. And on the History Guy KZread channel the history is rationed out in just the right size portions.

@mastafull

4 жыл бұрын

It's perfectly distilled information without all the advertisements, repetition, and puffery that you'd get from a TV documentary.

@michaelcerkez3895

4 жыл бұрын

Well said, I like to look at it as a spring board into areas I find as interesting.

@wrightflyer7855

4 жыл бұрын

@@mastafull Puffery. I like that term.

I remember when we only had one TV channel in the UK, and the excitement when colour TV came out. Banging the telly on the top to stop the frame sync from slipping was a daily ritual in most households, and people developed one arm longer than the other so they could adjust the various knobs on the back of the TV whilst still being able to see the screen.

6:00 *"G O O D N E W S E V E R Y O N E!"*

With that said; by the "History Guy," the "History Guy" will be forever a part of history. A part of history that deserves to be remembered. Quality will always trump quantity.

@getredytagetredy

4 жыл бұрын

TV has always been a weapon used by govt...to distract and misdirect from the reality the govt.dont want us to know about.

@nolgroth

4 жыл бұрын

Well said.

@delusionnnnn

4 жыл бұрын

That would be "Historiography that deserves to be remembered".

@JF-fx2qv

4 жыл бұрын

​@@getredytagetredy Be it story telling with a fable like quality, a factual historic event, or even a tool to manipulate people, humans will always enjoy the consumption of information and will wonder about the past and the future. People will be the judge of the information they consume. Again, be it factual information in its entirety, be it a fire side story of a Sasquatch quality, or even a snippet of an actual event in the "History Guy's" opinion; the fact is people love stories true or false / real or fake. Fake or real; history has shown that those in power and powers to be have always underestimated the abilities of the people they wish to manipulate. Never underestimate or assume people (a person) as stupid, or your sheep. Try as "they;" (Gov., CEO's. Kings, Queens, Gang Leaders, Your Boss and even your Spouse) or anyone for that matter, to control another and he / she / they may find they are the one controlled. Give to them what they think they take, only to be turning the round table back on to "them." Never squeeze the soap for it will pop out of your hands. Collect seemingly harmless snippets of factual pieces of the puzzle and it will complete itself and offer up a story told to you, this is the story of history. This is the joy. If it repeats in different sources it may just be true. If you are unable to allow an open mind to multiple resources you are then a prisoner of your own way of thinking ... hence, your own sheep. Are you watching yourself on your home made movies? All that said; I have no clue on how my compliment and appreciation for the "History Guy's" work as to be interpret as something more than a thank you and I enjoy the show. "History Guy's" snippets of history have given me more joy and knowledge be it real / fake / accurate or not than I received from my lame education system (public school). Thanks to the powers that flock us when child sheep.... right? Take "TV" or any other means to convey as you will. I choose the "History Guy." I keep an open mind and I give nothing of myself other than time. Know that in the past, present and future can an event or said event be recorded as fact with 100% certainty. It's the games people play and poor communications that lead you here to give your opinion for all of history. How you consume "history" is yours to manipulate. Enjoy! Thanks for the response.

@ianfarr-wharton1000

4 жыл бұрын

WRONG!!!! The Australian inventor Henry Sutton developed the TV in 1880... Every one forgets out side of Australia..

I was the remote control for my dad growing up as he would just yell, “Hey Kevin, come change the channel,” I also remember the TV repair guy coming by to fix the set with his bag if vacuum tubes while my dad grumbled about how much it was going to cost.

@311jbknight

4 жыл бұрын

My mom taking the tubes out and going to the corner drug store to check them on their tube tester. The tester was free to use and the new tubes were beneath the tester to buy. Made it much cheaper and easy to fix.

@harrykuheim6107

4 жыл бұрын

I loved those burnt out tubes...and throwing a rock at an old TV Tube was heaven.

@ChrisCaramia

4 жыл бұрын

We had an old console that we'd load into the back of our Tercel wagon (what seemed like) every week to take to the TV repairman.

@cliftondean4333

4 жыл бұрын

My uncle was a ham radio operator. He provided us with our first TV around 1956 or so. We received three stations, the towers for which we could see from our house. The TV (B&W, of course) would work well for a couple of weeks after he visited, then gradually get worse and quit altogether after a few months. My uncle would visit, check the various tubes and usually find one that was dead (no glow) or "seemed weak" to him, open the trunk of his car to see what he had. Often he didn't have the same tube, but would think for a few moments and decide that "this one would probably work" and try it in place of the offending tube. Usually he was correct. The TV would work again, and the cycle would repeat. What amazed me most was how long and reliably the CRT worked. That one never gave out. My parents finally bought a new TV in the seventies, and it worked fine.

@wrightflyer7855

4 жыл бұрын

@@cliftondean4333 My late maternal grandfather was the same way. He got his ham license in the 1920s and worked for the military Evans Signal Lab until retirement as a GS-14. He was self-taught but had a "feel for things" that defies description, always brought his tool box with him when he visited and could fix anything, electronic or otherwise. He was a true man of the world, collected coins and stamps and was well-read on almost any subject. He died in 1974 and I will miss him forever.

One of the best channels is right here at THG TV. I too, remember the big three channels (ABC, NBC, CBS) along with about 3 or 4 local stations on our "rabbit ears" antenna TV. I also remember going onto the roof with my dad to install the rooftop antenna to replace the positionally sensitive rabbit ears. With the rooftop antenna, the wind would often knock it out of position and I would have to scurry up the roof to get it repositioned. Often that meant yelling from someone below who would run back and forth into the house to report when the picture was right 😂

In the span of 70 + years from when a television "set" was a piece of living room furniture to where we can hang a 65" flatscreen television on the living room or bedroom wall. Oh and in color and doubles as a computer screen. Pure sorcery I tell you! 😲😱

@CraftyZanTub

4 жыл бұрын

I am not crazy about TV's, if I wanted 'television' I could just plug a cable cord into the PC, get an Internet TV subscription, or watch free KZread.

@drewgehringer7813

3 жыл бұрын

I mean letting you use any old television as your computer display was a selling point for a lot of the early Home Computers: purpose-built component video monitors cost a lot more, for a while

@altosack

2 жыл бұрын

@@drewgehringer7813 - Purpose-built computer monitors still cost a lot more than TVs. My 55” 4k60 TV I use for a monitor costs about the same as a 24” 1440p dedicated monitor, and looks great at the 5’ distance I use it from. It’s also better for my eyes than focusing close up for hours on end.

@williamhesprich4476

2 жыл бұрын

Maybe 5 or 6 months ago I had accidently hit the pause button on my cable TV remote and it PAUSED! I was so amazed. Didn't know that was even possible. The cable box also will do DVR so I guess that's why I could pause it. I'm 66 years old and when I told my wife she acted like or said 'so?' like she already knew that but never saw her actually do it before I told her. When I was a kid TV was 3 or on a good day 4 channels with rabbit ears and bunches of foil on them to 'work the magic to get it a little clearer.

@christianmotley262

2 жыл бұрын

@@williamhesprich4476 aluminum foil, ha, I almost forgot that "fine timing" accessory.

History was my least favorite subject in school. Now I can't get enough of your videos. Long live the "History Dude"

@fuzzywzhe

Жыл бұрын

You're still not learning history. This is propaganda.

@bit-tuber8126

Жыл бұрын

Schools seem compelled to leave the "fun juice" out of most books and lessons, though good teachers can add some back in. But THG is free to go his own way. Thankfully so much of what I disliked in school is enjoyable with the spices of interesting tastes. .

@markmarkofkane8167

Жыл бұрын

It does help if the person teaching is interesting and not boring. This guy is interesting and not at all boring.

@chadportenga7858

Жыл бұрын

@@markmarkofkane8167 I stumbled across the "Half As Interesting" channel. Let's just say, that channels name is a stretch. Too much goofy content and not enough history. (They could cut their videos in half and they'd still be too long for what they include). THG is interesting and informative without being silly, and he makes me want to learn more. And, I'm in my mid-50s and never thought I'd find history so fun.

@jaminova_1969

Жыл бұрын

School had away of destroying any interesting subject or topic

I finally packed my TV away about 3 months ago, everything I watch now is via my computer. And yer, I'm old enough to remember a time that if you didn't get home in time for your favourite program... you completely missed it, no rewind, no on-demand, no way, no how! 😱 Though they would probably repeat it in a few months time, so that's ok... 😁

A small voice? A SMALL VOICE? You, sir, are the loudest voice in the area of easily accessible and understandable history content. Please continue your crusade to remind future generations of the most important knowledge, our past.

Can remember my buddys father who repaired TV'S said that the Philadelphia area was a hot bed for development of TV. Philco had a large plant in philly and across the river in Camden NJ think it was RCA that had a large plant. I still have a tube radio in the garage and built a tube & transister tester from Healtkit back in the 1970's. Its a shame young kids never picked up a soldering iron to build something. 48 years ago I can remembering saving up to purchase a 25" when it went on sale for $500. 2 weeks pay. Was told back then that there would never be a TV larger then 25" due to CRT limitations. Was true for at least 25 years. I got a Sony 32 or 35" Triniton TV that weighed 168 #'s. Now a 55" LED only weigh about 35#'s .

Yup...this channel is one of my favorites...I don't even watch regular tv anymore...love history.

History Guy should have hundreds of millions of subscribers. Sad times.

@Ignatz71

4 жыл бұрын

@Jacob Zondag We should all learn history to avoid repeating it.

Ah, I remember Gilligan's Island in black and white, and every program in B&W! Then color TV, the switch to digital, and watching the twin towers collapse on a 5" B&W TV, even though we had a larger color set. My wife built our family entertainment center, decades ago, and she made the side that holds the TV large enough to hold a 27 inch TV; at the time, we could have never imagined that there would be a TV larger than that. BTW, my brother in law's grand uncle was Philo T. Farnsworth. Fascinating story History Guy! You truly are The Best!

Your KZread statistics translate to the equivalent of almost 10 human lifetimes of viewing in a single year. Spectacular.

I remember our old TV set in the 70s- it's cabinet was all wood and looked like a piece of some elegant furniture!

@joerogers4227

3 жыл бұрын

Early on in 1948 I remember one family having a commercial sold magnifying glass in the front of a TV and also does anyone remember Hotpoint TV's with a light area around the TV to make the picture look larger?

@gregoryclemen1870

2 жыл бұрын

@@joerogers4227 , YUP. SURE DO!!!!!!, I" started" working on T.V. sets of that era

@kevmichael2064

2 жыл бұрын

I do too...I DXed TV on one of those... used to get.. San Diego and Mexico from L A...

@nealmichal6978

2 жыл бұрын

My father and grandfather built wooden TV cabinets for RCA in Monticello Indiana. They were furniture grade I order to merit higher sales price.

@dawnstorm9768

Жыл бұрын

Yup!

History Guy, Thank you for making 'television' worth watching!

@glennso47

4 жыл бұрын

Jeff R Growing up I was able only to get WHBF in Rock Island, Illinois,WOC in Davenport, Iowa and WQAD in Moline, Illinois

I had it so rough as a kid i had to walk through 12 feet of shag carpet to change the channel on the TV. Other memorable TV moments:Banging the Tv with your fist to make it do something or stop doing something; going to the drugstore with a burned out tube in hand only to find that it was not in stock down below in the tester cabinet; improving reception with tinfoil; being a living antenna while Dad watched football; watching a test pattern waiting for the TV to start broadcasting in the morning;; watching the signoff Jets flying with the sign off poem and lastly; eating TV dinners in the living room on TV trays.

Don't forget about the 4th channel which was "Public Broacast Station" which was only aired a about 8 hours a day! I remember having to turn the antenna to get a clearer picture and antennaes were on every home!

@lucygray6162

3 жыл бұрын

I'm also twisting the antennae these days. Got so tired of the big companies jacking up the price for shows I never watched, not to mention the pure stupidity of most series on the air. Cancelled everything, and now I watch the same old channels, including PBS, and head for You Tube for better world coverage and interesting people.

Remember my dad taking the back off of the B & W 21” TV, removing all the tubes, carting them to a Pep Boys where he could use a tube tester, the errant tube was replaced, all put back together and viola! TV again. It seemed like it was an all too common problem. Ever try to open an i-Phone? LOL

@bmouch1018

4 жыл бұрын

Those must have been better times when such a relatively advanced and expensive product could be fixed so relatively easily and cheaply.

@Karjis

4 жыл бұрын

Opening iPhone is fairly easy (no glue, just screws and metal springs) and replacing bigger components is actually quite easy.

@bubbarat8679

4 жыл бұрын

Jim M there are even KZread vids you can watch that show you how to repair smart phones , tablets its easy as sorry

@ricktimmons458

3 жыл бұрын

my last job was repairs and programming ptt radios. haven't opened one since! so complicated not sure i could repair one now. can latest ones be programmed by laptops?

@fredherfst8148

3 жыл бұрын

Tube testers at the local store. A memory jolt! I did so many trips that I could tell when the tester needed testing!

0:32 as my grandfather once said: "Back in my day we had two channels ON and OFF" Jokes aside my great uncle had two broken TVs he used. He got them from the landfill. He had one stacked upon the other. One provided the sound and the other one gave him the black and white picture.

@Oldbmwr100rs

2 жыл бұрын

When our cable company scrambled some channels, I discovered the sound was at one end of the fine tuning while the picture was at the other. Simple, use a little portable set for the sound, adjust the main set for the least bad picture! Free pay channel!

@luislaplume8261

2 жыл бұрын

That is quite an incredible story, but I believe it. Some people have a talent to try and successfully solve problems.

@Oldbmwr100rs

2 жыл бұрын

@@luislaplume8261 I remember that if i got it right enough, the picture was good enough to watch, but was drifting from color to B/W. But hey, I got to watch free HBO!

I live in Vermont and I've heard tales of the Vermont gold rush of the 1930's. That may be an interesting story to hear about.

We had only two channels until I was 8 or 9. Receiving TV signals back then was an art form. I kinda miss the rigid schedules that shows used to adhere to. Some shows you watched when you could. Other shows you planned your day or week around. But I am glad to have control over my TV. I hope more folks get to watch the History Guy. He's producing good stuff. Quality stories. This would've been a perfect Sunday afternoon TV show back in the day.

When I was a kid in the '70's, out TV was a huge piece of furniture with real walnut trim and a remote with actual mechanical buttons that physically made the channel knob turn with this heavy clunk-clunk-clunk noise. If I watched TV after my parents went to bed, I couldn't use the remote lol. Now, I watch everything on a laptop the size of one of those business-size padded shipping envelopes, and everything I watch is on a streaming service or here on YT.

@dre3k78

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah i still remember my family's TV when i was a kid in the late 70s and early 80s. It was literally a fancy piece of wooden furniture with a TV built into the middle and no remote. That thing had to weigh a ton. I remember most families had something similar and when they got a new TV they just set it on top of the old one lol!

@cougarhunter33

4 жыл бұрын

They had a remote control in the 50s that was essentially a flashlight with a momentary switch that was pointed towards one of the corners of the screen depending on what you wanted it to do. I have wanted a working version for years.

4 жыл бұрын

Hey Glenn.HDMI it to a 40" screen , no brainer

@echodelta9

4 жыл бұрын

No remote but I remember turning the channel knob quietly late at night or early Saturday morning instead of fast, that machine gun jundt jundt jundt sound to go half way around from 6 to 13!

When, some decade or two from now, we look back and judge the "screen time" bloat of today, I believe that time spent with The History Guy will deserve to be remembered as time spent well. Thank you!

My Grandfather was born in 1898. No Radio back then! And he first flew in an Aeroplane about 1916. It was a demonstration at a State Fair! Scared him so badly that he NEVER FLEW AGAIN! And he lived until 1994!

my grandpa was a repair man.mit grad in the 30's.he always fixed our huge tube style tv.that tv still worked when i threw it away in2006.ty for the video explaning how they worked.

I love to watch historical documentaries. Ever since Discovery, TLC, and History channel went full reality TV shows, I stop watching TV. I appreciate channels like yours to watch historical documentaries.

I've had an antenna on the roof for many years now, but do remember the days when I was thee antenna(with tin-foil in hand). Back in the day I was the remote too. I can still hear the clunk of the channel changer.....lol Love the History Channel because it helps me remember.

@riggs20

4 жыл бұрын

Yep, I remember being my dad's remote control! I didn't have to go on the roof, but I did have to adjust the rabbit ears. After 5 minutes of messing with it you'd hear, "Right there! Perfect! Don't move!" LOL.

As an Englishman borne and bred I love the 'History Guy' and wish that my history teachers could have provided such well researched and enthusiastic presentations of recent history. There is much more history on this subject than can be included in a sixteen minute presentation. The BBC terminated television broadcasts at the outbreak of WWII. In ~1954 my neighbour had a 405 line, VHF, 9" diagonal monochrome TV with a Fresnel magnifier glass. I was introduced to excellent BBC news programmes aimed at children and 'Hopalong Cassidy', 'Roy Rogers' etc. from America. In Britain the purchase of Televisions was boosted in 1953 by the desire to view the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II broadcast by the BBC. America chose the NTSC ('Never the Same Colour') system but Europe chose the superior PAL standard. Famously, the vastly superior Sony Beta-max tape recording algorithm from Sony was ousted by the inferior JVC VHS machine. Now we, in Europe, have a hundred or more digital TV and Radio channels free to air via terrestrial and satellite broadcasting, mostly of similarly poor quality to American TV. We are bombarded by the typical, loud, Yank 'Entrepreneur' (shyster) who urges us to buy his product and save money on cable TV. Is it a simple digital terrestrial or satellite receiver or is it a 'hacked' Sky receiver - either way, I don't want it! Needles to say, I hate those loud, brash, endless advertisements that interrupt programs every few minutes. The history of 'Soap Operas' is interesting, they are much more refined in Europe. e.g.The story of 'Nicole and Papa' selling the Renault Clio from 1991 to 1998 featured the very attractive Estelle Skornik in a very expensive dress. Possibly the most effective European advertisement of the 20th Century. Thank you, History Guy - second best to only the very best of the BBC.

I get a blank stare from my son when I told him there were only 4 televisions stations to watch when I grew up! When cable first came to town there was suddenly 12 stations to watch! Great history! I enjoy your channel a lot!

@marcusdamberger

2 жыл бұрын

I remember when the cable system was still relatively new, they didn't have nearly enough channels to fill everything in. So several channels were those information channels with scrolling text, some were satellite delivered with images, and news snippets adjacent to them. Then a few years later when the cable system was maxed out to about 35 channels, they would share some channels. I think one channels was a CNBC type of business channel (FNN??) that would mostly follow the markets during the day, then after the markets closed, around 3 or 4pm local time (central time zone) they would switch the channel over to Nickelodeon channel or maybe it was the USA Network. So some channels on the cable system were shared depending on the time of day. I also remember when Nickelodeon channel was commercial free, no ads. Imagine that, a kids channel that didn't have ads aimed at getting your kid to want some cereal or toy. But that didn't last long sadly. Just too tempting a target. I also remember when our cable system first got the History Channel, the channel actually had shows about history. Not the crème puff reality stuff they show now and claim some fragment of history because some guy is trying to sell an old gun to a pawn shop owner.. Or when TLC actually had shows teaching you about stuff, I remember a great UK show they had with a professor sort of guy explaining everyday home items and how they worked. Something gadgets? Uhg, glad I dropped cable years ago. The channels I loved on cable just all became reality shit shows.

I remember my brother and I being so excited one Christmas, our parents bought each of us our own 12” black and white tv’s for our bedroom. I still think that was the best thing I have ever gotten as a gift. It was a Montgomery Wards Airline brand and I watched every episode of Gilligan’s Island and F troop on it as well as every western they broadcast.

@AndrewVelonis

2 жыл бұрын

I can sing both of their theme songs.

@richsimon7838

2 жыл бұрын

Aren’t good parents wonderful? Byron’s parents gave their loved kids color TV’s that I’m sure was a struggle to afford. My parents bought our family of four kids Pong the first Christmas it came out, for the astronomical fee of $125! It was wonderful and we were the hit of the neighborhood, we had more friends that winter then we ever wanted!

@billc5378

2 жыл бұрын

I remember Wilton and egon (Larry Storch) who was also Mr WeatherBug from Tennessee Tuxedo

@billc5378

2 жыл бұрын

Sorry WeatherBy, darned autocorrect

When my great-grandfather passed away in the 1950's, my grandmother inherited his tv. My Mom remembers being only apartment in her neighborhood to have two tv sets in their home - a rarity for the late 1950's.

@4jp

4 жыл бұрын

Honey, he's teasing you. Nobody has two television sets.

@luislaplume8261

2 жыл бұрын

@@4jp If one is rich enough, one can.

@urbanurchin5930

2 жыл бұрын

@@4jp .....nice reference to "Back to the Future".......

@ElectroDFW

2 жыл бұрын

@@4jp "what's a rerun?" 😉

My grandmother bought me a 19 inch color tv for my birthday in 1968, for $599. A brand new basic Ford Mustang back then was $2,400.

@UQRXD

Жыл бұрын

Money was worth more. The more they print the less it's worth.

You had three television stations? Were you lucky. We only had two black-and-white TV stations and receive the signal from the rabbit ears on top of the TV. On Saturday mornings we would watch the test pattern until noon when our Saturday morning television programs would be on the air. It was my 13th birthday when we got our third television station. I ran home from school, poured a glass of milk, grabbed a couple of cookies and turned on the TV set to channel 7. The first program I watched on this new station was Dick Clark’s American Bandstand. My life has changed.

I remember when we got our first color TV.... after having tiny B&W sets. A huge wooden console thing with giant speakers. Then we got a little color set for a bedroom, we thought tech had hit the wall and never could get better.

@znentitan4032

3 жыл бұрын

I remember in the mid sixties when my uncle got a color console TV, half the neighborhood was packed in the living room to see Bonanza in color! OOOOOOOOH!

@christianmotley262

2 жыл бұрын

@@znentitan4032 Bonanza was the first program I remember in color and Disney after that. Dad bought the set around '61. I think we almost starved while he was paying for it. We had neighbors come over too.

I can remember being sent outside to rotate the antenna pole, all the while listening for the shout, ok that's good enough.

@goodnough1

3 жыл бұрын

Me too! Ha ha funny thing is I'm bact to it now. Quit cable and have an antenna mounted in the attic. But now I have a high tec rotater motor and can get 90 + channels over the air. Man my kids are missing out on the fun of me hollering " hold it there"!

@richardstra9011

3 жыл бұрын

@Bob G You two were living in the stone age. My antenna pole had a motor and a dial to turn.

@MickeyMousePark

3 жыл бұрын

@@richardstra9011 but theirs was an "intelligent" rotator system :)

@Miklos82

2 жыл бұрын

Back in the late'50s and early '60s, we had a high tech, for that time TV tower that would turn the antenna via an indoor electronic box. I lived in Richmond, Indiana right on the Ohio-Indiana line. We got most of our TV from Dayton, Ohio if the antenna was aimed eastward. Aiming it westward we got programming from Indianapolis. During the NFL season, we got Cleveland Browns games (when they were in their heyday) No Indianapolis Colts in those days-aiming west, we got Chicago Bears and GreenBay Packers games.

@marcusdamberger

2 жыл бұрын

@@Miklos82 Now the NFL charges you mega bucks to be able to see "out of market" games with their NFL Ticket package. If you owned a bar and showed your customers that, pick and choose from the three markets you could see on your antenna, they would get you for public display copyright infringement to a viewing audience. They should be glad your watching their games and a bunch of other people are interested at the same time. Now they charge those bars and restaurants even higher fees than the home viewers of the NFL Ticket. Isn't it a great time we are in? So much more choice, but charged for every choice you make, but restricted to their packages they choose to bundle together. We still don't have a la carte, and seems we will never have true a la carte choice in the matter.

My father was a TV repairman up until about 1970. We never had a new TV set in our family back then. As a matter of fact, we never had a TV set that worked properly, as we always ended up with somebody else's trade in. He got out of the business at the right time. It wasn't long before TV repair meant swapping out modules, and then later, just throwing away the whole TV and buying new.

@dougbrowning82

2 жыл бұрын

The RCA XL-100 ushered in the module swapping.

@tomservo56954

Жыл бұрын

The shoemaker's children go barefoot...

It's cool to see my mom's cousin's (James Avati) statue of Farnsworth in this video. I was at the Capitol when it was unveiled back in the early 90's.

Damn, KZread is sharing my data!? My 6.1 million hours of History Guy viewing was assumed confidential!

I remember 3 stations and sometimes 2 more when the weather allowed. Antenna on the roof, rabbit ears, test pattern, all of that.

@glennso47

4 жыл бұрын

When I was a kid, we had two stations that we could get with any regularity. WHBF-TV in Rock Island, Illinois and WOC-TV in Davenport, Iowa. WHBF was the first Illinois TV station outside of Chicago. And WOC was the first tv station west of the Mississippi River.

@cathyrowe594

3 жыл бұрын

I also remember having the kid with the braces head gear sitting in a particular spot in the room to bring in the best reception!

@lindycorgey2743

2 жыл бұрын

It sucked if you had to hold the rabbit ears to get the channel to come in.

@christianmotley262

2 жыл бұрын

@@lindycorgey2743 ha, I know that's right

@virginia7125

2 жыл бұрын

I rotated my antenna to get Richmond, VA on a foggy night. I could also get Petersburg in I went a little more south. Aim up north to get Charlottesville. Doing this, I could get around 7 channels with 2 being UHF.

One of the things I like about THG is the basic decency in the tone of the content. It reminds me of my younger days, when America was less polarized and more united.

I really enjoy watching tv on all sorts of different sets - I still miss my old RCA huge color console - great color, remember watching the Love Boat and other shows on it - it wouldn't have even fit up the stairway into my condo - my Admiral black and white set my sister had given me - my 84 Mitsubishi which only needed one repair in 20 plus years - actually a downgrade a bit in picture quality to myToshiba DVD combo - my Vizio set in my bedroom - and I love my blue Quasar cube tv - to me the picture is still awesome on that -

I can remember the excitement in my family when we actually brought home our first TV. Yep; black and white on a glorious 15” screen. I also remember going to neighbors house to watch Alan Shepard’s 61’ trip into space in color. Hate to say it but I got a 60” Plasma TV with 200 channels sitting fallow with nothing of value being broadcast today. My TV’s highest function today is reserved for my Xbox game play. Pew Pew.

@anonUK

4 жыл бұрын

Can you not put in a Chromecast or something? Much more useful.

@CraftyZanTub

4 жыл бұрын

You can get the wire needed from Amazon, plug it into a PC, and you can enjoy the world.

You should devote a whole episode to Philo Farnsworth. He was a really interesting guy.

@tamipalin8171

4 жыл бұрын

He's from here in Idaho. It has been said that he got his idea from observing the furrows created by his plow in a potato field.

@johnscanlan9335

4 жыл бұрын

The whole conflict between Filo Farnsworth and David Sarnoff is fascinating!

@deanrobert8674

4 жыл бұрын

There is a show that tells the tails , it's called " Futurama "

@Zstray

3 жыл бұрын

About 10 minutes from me is the house he lived in while he operated Farnsworth Television and Radio Corporation from 1938 to 1951. Near the street is a sign describing his accomplishment with TV and I know the family currently living there who really love the house. This Wikipedia page has an image of it: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philo_Farnsworth#Fort_Wayne_factory_razing,_residence_history

Remember as a kid in the `50's sitting and watching the test page with the Indian Head waiting for programs to start. Us boomers are the 1st TV generation.

@moss8448

Жыл бұрын

now you have those that will demand accountability, centuries later. boy are we advancing as a peoples. the whole time the present accountability is nonexitant.

I am old enough to remember when my Dad brought home our 1st black&white TV if I remember it was a 13inch console in 1969.

I haven't watched TV in years... I get everything I need on my smartphone.

@chrisebert7307

4 жыл бұрын

Same

@blackcountryme

4 жыл бұрын

Including bad eyesight from staring at such a small point. I share to a big screen if I can, as I'm doing now with the history guy

@samiam619

4 жыл бұрын

Sports is about the only thing we watch. Maybe a movie that we both want to see.

@kevinwebster7868

4 жыл бұрын

Michael Mccarthy still tv man. Different device same concept.

@charlesachurch7265

4 жыл бұрын

What is a smartphone sounds like a new disease .

When were are told someone invented this or that what we are often actually saying is someone took existing ideas and found a new way of using them. Back in 1978 the was a BBC television series, appropriately, called Connections, created, written, and presented by science historian James Burke. The shows demonstrated how various discoveries, scientific achievements, and historical world events were built from one another successively and this interconnectivity brought about modern technology. The BBC was producing television programmes before WW2 and when war was declared on 3rd September 1939 they were broadcasting of a Disney cartoon. The cartoon was halted part way through and when broadcasting was resumed after the war ended the rest of the cartoon was shown. No mention of a caption card saying 'Sorry for the delay but there were technical difficulties what with the war and everything.' I forgot to mention we had cable locally from a company called Rediffusion which began broadcasting 22 September 1955. As well as renting out the cable they also ran a rental chain for TVs and radios and later VCRs and hi-fi systems. They were bought out in 1984. Just last week as I walked down the street I came across a small manhole cover which said Rediffusion on it.

@caw25sha

4 жыл бұрын

I remember James Burke. He was a bit of a legend in his time. I had forgotten that a lot of people rented TVs. They were branded with the company name, Granada or whatever, just to let your friends and relatives know you couldn't afford to buy one 😯

@krashd

4 жыл бұрын

@@caw25sha I knew someone with a pay as you go rental where it went off if you didn't put 50p pieces in the top. This was in the 80's obviously when everything was 50p, gas, electricity, etc. If you ran out of 50p pieces you were shit out of luck - you could have ten grand in the bank but you would still be eating a cold supper if someone didn't go to a neighbour's house and ask for change.

I was one of the many thousands that made parts for CRT guns. Specifically as a Tool & Die maker in a tiny town in Philpot Kentucky at Premium Allied Tool that sold parts to most of the TV makers that were left in the US in the 1970-80's . A company that was offered to be bout out for $100 million that after the year 2000 went into debt by owing the IRS over $20 Million in back taxes ! The quick turn around was the new flat screen TV's that did not require a CRT gun . Technology is a fickle thing its like a spark , its bright and short lived and replaced by another spark which is also short lived . Thank you for your presentation of that history , and ask the question , how many TV's are made in the USA , NOW ?

As a recent subscriber I greatly enjoy each episode of The History Guy. While watching this episode the comment about only having 3 channels reminded of my youth where our evening entertainment was not the watching of TV, but the constant attempts of rotating the outside antenna to the right position to be able to watch a show. My 3 older brothers were responsible for the manual turning of the antenna. My dad would be setting in the recliner and 1 brother was at the front door, second brother at the corner of the house, and the 3rd brother stood at the antenna with a pipe wrench. By the time my dad would say stop and the last brother at the antenna heard stop, the reception was distorted and the scenario would start over again. I don’t think we completely watched a full episode of any show for quite some time.