Who remembers when television networks signed off for the night

@iwishuwerehere It was because there’s a fetish label on Human Earth’s reply. I don’t think it’s accurate.

@Mamapolo2016 No my fetish is with television sign ons 🤣🤣🤣🤣

@HumanEarth Makes more sense, unless you’re very sleepy.

@uncalled4

I used to play them working overnight at my first few jobs 🙂

@ChipmunkErnie And while most stations' sign-off was either an instrumental version of "The Star-Spangled Banner" or someone singing the first "rockets' red glare" verse, there was one station (either Baltimore ore Washington DC) that closed the day with an acoustic guitar/folk version of the second or third verse.

@HumanEarth well maybe they were gone in the US but not from our part of the world 🤷🏻‍♂

I forget that people live outside the USA 🤣🤣🤣

@HumanEarth you’re an American so that’s fine 🤣 a cool American nonetheless but some stereotypes about you lot are so true 🤣

Till it went to snow and static

My sisters would go out behind the house with a flashlight, a jar, and pair of tweezers and turn over rocks. They would find scorpions that way and put them in the jar. Bring them back in the house and show them off. Not me. There were copperheads out in that area and they were thick. Scorpions are bad enough but damn copperheads, not walking around in the dark for no good reason.

We wood play records and cards

@HumanEarth Yeah cards sometimes. Or games. Make some popcorn. One time my sister and her husband were staying the weekend. She was boiling a couple eggs for a snack. I randomly said “You can’t squeeze a raw egg without breaking it.” Her husband nodded his head and said “That’s right”. For some reason she took that as a challenge. She said “I can, watch”. She gets an egg out of the refrigerator and starts squeezing it, her hand is shaking and then….it exploded in her face. Me and her husband started laughing. Her face turned red and she started chasing me she was so mad at me. I told her “I told you that you couldn’t do it without it breaking”. Hell I don’t even know why I thought of something like that to begin with but to me it was one of the funniest things.

@FreddieUK They could reuse the old BBC test card with a different presenter appearing each night as the clown 🙂

Well I'm tad older and I used to stay up late on weekends, networks would sign off between 11-midnight

Near the end

In the 1960s it was after the nighty news