#and stations couldn't broadcast analog signals anymore only digital ones
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how did you get your tv growing up? (if you had multiple houses or technologies, pick the one you most identify with your formative childhood tv experience)
op's formative tv experience was in a rural area with rabbit ears in the 90s, but before 18 i lived in a place with every one of these except satellite. rotary antenna is its own category because i will never forget the day when a friend's family put one in. the sheer power of turning that knob and seeing a wholeass giant roof antenna turning around and then you can pick up the x-files?? fucking religious experience.
#i really did have only one channel and it was abc#i watched an awful lot of World News Tonight With Peter Jennings for a latchkey kid with a tv#we got cable in high school#looking something up for this reminded me about how like 15 years ago the laws changed in the usa#and stations couldn't broadcast analog signals anymore only digital ones#and it was a big thing for people with old tvs to get adapters...#tv#polls
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