Remember when they used to "sign-off" at around 4am? The National Anthem, followed my that shrill beeping sound?
I remember when some stations signed off before midnight.
My mom used to tell this story: It was about 1952 or '53 and my mother was doing her ironing one night. We had a tv for a few years already at that point (which was unusual since most families were first getting tv around then) and she wanted to watch a movie while ironing the clothes. Only problem was there were no movies on then.
My mom, who loved and lived to argue, called up the broadcast channel and complained that her husband bought her a tv and she wanted to watch a movie but there was no movie on. The station actually broadcast a movie!! [TRUE STORY] It was a Charles Boyer movie, and my mom told me the name of it, but I've since forgotten the name.
