Time to Cancel Bert and Ernie?

[ClydeR]

I'm not a fan of cancel culture, but sometimes you have to draw a line.


https://i.imgur.com/vK8pb0b.png
https://twitter.com/mschlapp/status/1460230970762838022

[hamsquatch]

Yeah this is dumb. Also, Matt Schlapp change your name [to Richard] and learn how to write English good.

[Alfster]

Rages against cancel culture.

Wants to cancel bert and Ernie.

Lol

[hamsquatch]

Rages against cancel culture.

Wants to cancel bert and Ernie.

Lol

I think he’s trying to say muppets are toys that move and assigning them a race is stupid, or maybe that’s how I want to read it. Do they all need racial assignment now? I think PBS might’ve made things worse.

[Tgo01]

Rages against cancel culture.

Wants to cancel bert and Ernie.

Lol

Didn't they sell out to HBO? I think they'll be fine without taxpayer dollars.

[Parkbandit]

Didn't they sell out to HBO? I think they'll be fine without taxpayer dollars.

Exactly.

We shouldn't be subsidizing PBS or any other station that can't make ends meet.

This isn't 1970 anymore where there is only 3 channels.

[Candor]

This isn't 1970 anymore where there is only 3 channels.

In 1970 I could access channels 2 (local), 4 (NBC), 5 (CBS), 7 (ABC), 9 (PBS), 11 (local), and 13 (local). These were the VHF channels and didn't need tuning.

Above channel 13 were the UHF channels which were accessed via a dial that you had to tune to a station (much like you tune to a radio station). I could get channels 20, 36, 45, and 54, all local. There was also a channel 68 but it rarely came in good enough to actually watch.

So I had access to 11 channels in total. However none of the local stations were broadcasting 24 hours a day - if you got up at 2am and wanted to watch TV, your options were very limited.

[Tgo01]

if you got up at 2am and wanted to watch TV, your options were very limited.

You got to hear the national anthem a lot at those hours right? Or was it just test patterns?

[Candor]

You got to hear the national anthem a lot at those hours right? Or was it just test patterns?

The anthem was played once when the station started broadcasting for the day, and then once when it signed off at night. I don't think a test pattern counted as actually broadcasting, so in the morning you would see a test pattern, then the anthem, then the first show. Some stations would broadcast a test pattern for hours at a time and some didn't, as to why I don't know.

[Gelston]

You got to hear the national anthem a lot at those hours right? Or was it just test patterns?

No that is how you talked to the TV people.