I remember as a kid traveling all over the country with my parents in a 6000 pound station wagon (guzzleing 29 cent-per-gallon gas), listening to lots of local radio stations, and watching lots of locally produced TV shows. Now everyone watches the same stuff everywhere. There isn't any local personality to the programming; It's all the same homogenized crap. Except for the guy in the "Severe Extreme Pinpoint Weather Alert Center". And he still gets the forecast wrong about 135 percent of the time.
Those quicktime clips of the old NBC identification almost brought a tear to my eye.
I miss watching "Dobie Gillis" re-runs and "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea" with my dad on our old Hoffman Black-and-White. It had a steel cabinet and a steel swivel stand that squeeked so loud the people next door could hear it. We used a bent coat hanger for antenna.
A few years later, we would watch "Sea Hunt", and "The Rifleman" every night after dinner.
Watching the Gemini space launches on that set was really exciting, even I didn't understand the underlying political importance at the time.
Anyone remember "Moona Lisa's Science Fiction Theater" (1960s) on KOGO-10 in San Diego? She showed some of the worst movies ever made, and they were great!
This stuff all seems so long ago, but I remember it so clearly. And I miss it.
Geez, suddenly I feel old.