I'm pretty sure I grew up watching Charles in Charge on WUAB TV43 on one of those things. Bonus points for the VHS/DVD combo on top.
It lasted a few months (probably over winter) until my parents had time to get it loaded up and taken to the dump. We lived in the middle of nowhere so there was no trash pickup.
Oh, no shame. Mine was the house that moved the non-working TV (and other dead appliances/electronics) to the basement waiting for someone to finally get around to fixing it. Hint: No one ever did.
You did that too? When I did it, the big heavy console on the bottom was a 25" black & white TV. Beat that!
We had multiple of those tv consoles in our house. Pops was an electronics teacher. So every television in our house came from a donated television that was fixed in his lab. My folks did not have a “new” television in their house until we bought them one in the late 2000s.
I think our new one was a 32” CRT TV, it was color though! We didn’t have cable or satellite until I was 15 so mostly it was used for NES/SNES. We did have a 60 foot antenna tower with a mechanical rotator so we could get Dayton or Lima channels. On clear nights we got some Columbus channels even.
I had one of those when Mrs KG and I got married. In later years it served as the stand for the TV we *did* use.
Sinclair Broadcasting, which bought the Fox Regional Sports Networks in 2019, with gambling giant Bally's is rebranding the RSN'S. Sports Time Ohio will become Bally Sports Great Lakes and Fox Sports Ohio will become Bally Sports Ohio. It's not a merger but rather Sinclair is selling Ballys the naming rights to their channels as they move closer to full time gambling programming.
Makes sense, considering how much World Series of Poker crap they show. They could call it Ballys Poker, Jimmy Hanlin Golf, and Occasional Live Sports Ohio channel.
As a kid, my dad told us that the TV console was broken. We trusted him and never touched the TV, for a year. Then, on a fall Monday night, I woke up and went downstairs to find my dear old dad watching Monday Night Football on the broken TV console! As Steinbeck said... "When a child first catches adults out -- when it first walks into his grave little head that adults do not always have divine intelligence, that their judgments are not always wise, their thinking true, their sentences just -- his world falls into panic desolation. The gods are fallen and all safety gone."
There are few things that make me sound older than my disinterest in navigating, what seem to me, ever-changing, Byzantine, and unreliable TV packages in what's often a frustrating attempt to watch my favorite team(s) play. It's why I'm pretty firmly in the "******** it" category, and will chug on, a reasonably happy cable cutter who'll hopefully be able to go to games, in person, this year, and check out some games in local pubs if the mood strikes.
And were much the better person for it. If I were asked for just one piece of child-rearing advice, it would be to put your foot through the f*cking boob tube. Also, FWIW, a very wise women once wrote that you needn't bother asking your wife what she wants to watch on TV. Secretly, she wishes you'd turn the damn thing off.
False. She loves TV. All the programs that would make you run from the house screaming. The only thing she doesn't like about TV is all of the shows you feel are actually worth your time. Such as live sports.
I didn't miss a thing without the TV. I always thought it was a funny story and today I wish I didn't have the TV, the phone and the internet. But I'm also one of those horrible parents that sets time limits on the use of all of the above. The challenge is trying to realistically limit screen time across multiple platforms!
And you just KNOW Oliver Tse is hurting over this. He sold his website to get into the televised poker industry, back when ESPN was showing a lot of it before the crackdown. Even without a pandemic and before the Bally's branding, they were showing a lot of that. But then again, who actually watches that stuff? It's probably a better business decision to sell a guaranteed number of commercials every half-hour than it is to show a game from 2-3 years ago that won't have the same amount of commercials. How many people are really going to watch an RSN at 4pm Wednesday that isn't showing a live game? With that said, it's sad that the channel isn't "All Ohio, All The Time" like it could be.
Bally's direct to consumer product will not come until 2022 and will only provide access to "certain content from our RSNs, as well as other unique content." So, no guarantee even then that if you subscribe, you'd be able to watch any live games. https://thestreamable.com/news/sinc...fox-sports-rsns-direct-to-consumer-until-2022 Edit: also, as a Crew fan in Dayton that can only access the matches via the app, I am not confident this app will rollout smoothly. So early season matches will be an adventure to watch I am sure.
Increasingly, as someone who cannot get cable, a not insignificant subset of the viewing population is being left at the curb. The best I and my neighbors can do is satellite internet which is simply not fast enough to stream anything. So sure, make it impossible for me to watch games. Greedy f*ckheads.