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RIP Ted Turner

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If it wasn't for him owning the Braves and TBS, I probably would never have been a Braves fan. I remember growing up and able to watch every single Braves game on the Superstation. The man was a real visionary, conservationist and philanthropist.
 
I remember when cable first came to Columbia. I was stationed at Ft Jackson and Mrs B and I were living in a trailer park on LeGrande Road in Dentsville. It must have been '74 or '75. I came home one day and Mrs B met me at the door all excited about a "flyer" type piece of mail announcing that cable was now available.

We of course subscribed and the first weekend we had cable we had decided we were going to stay up all night and watch it. Mrs B lasted until about 3ish and I made it to maybe 4ish.

TBS was one of the few (10-12) stations available that we liked. They had a guy named Bill Tush that was on a lot doing news and odd shows. It was hilarious, people would be popping up behind him making faces, moving plants and doing crazy stuff. It was very unprofessional and fun.

We were both already Braves fans so that was a huge extra plus for us.
 
FurmanCock said:
If it wasn't for him owning the Braves and TBS, I probably would never have been a Braves fan. I remember growing up and able to watch every single Braves game on the Superstation. The man was a real visionary, conservationist and philanthropist.
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Yeah, and I believe the original Braves stadium is where Ga St now plays its football games.
 
Blitzkrieg said:
I remember when cable first came to Columbia. I was stationed at Ft Jackson and Mrs B and I were living in a trailer park on LeGrande Road in Dentsville. It must have been '74 or '75. I came home one day and Mrs B met me at the door all excited about a "flyer" type piece of mail announcing that cable was now available.

We of course subscribed and the first weekend we had cable we had decided we were going to stay up all night and watch it. Mrs B lasted until about 3ish and I made it to maybe 4ish.

TBS was one of the few (10-12) stations available that we liked. They had a guy named Bill Tush that was on a lot doing news and odd shows. It was hilarious, people would be popping up behind him making faces, moving plants and doing crazy stuff. It was very unprofessional and fun.

We were both already Braves fans so that was a huge extra plus for us.
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My dad had a decent blue-collar job working on the railroad for 32 years out of our small town and the trains took him to Atlanta most of the time back then. The railroad put them up in a hotel on Peachtree back then. He stayed just down the street from a concert venue and saw Blackfoot live back then.

Dirty Mary and Crazy Larry was the first movie I watched on cable back then.

Ultra Man on TBS was the big deal back then.
 
kingofnerf said:
My dad had a decent blue-collar job working on the railroad for 32 years out of our small town and the trains took him to Atlanta most of the time back then. The railroad put them up in a hotel on Peachtree back then. He stayed just down the street from a concert venue and saw Blackfoot live back then.

Dirty Mary and Crazy Larry was the first movie I watched on cable back then.

Ultra Man on TBS was the big deal back then.
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Yeah TBS was the bomb back in the day. Especially considering that pretty much up until then it was the big 3 OTA networks and maybe a PBS station. If the President was on your night was shot.*

*Shout out to Jeff Foxworthy
 
Blitzkrieg said:
Yeah TBS was the bomb back in the day. Especially considering that pretty much up until then it was the big 3 OTA networks and maybe a PBS station. If the President was on your night was shot.*

*Shout out to Jeff Foxworthy
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Yeah, nothing left to do but run behind the bug mobile when it came around before it got dark. Sad, but true.
 
kingofnerf said:
Yeah, nothing left to do but run behind the bug mobile when it came around before it got dark. Sad, but true.
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I can remember riding my bike behind the bug mobile while they were fogging -- which probably explains a lot. Thinking back, we did a lot of "stupid" things because we didn't know any better.
 
I can remember as a kid that at Midnight the stations went off the air and did not come on until the next morning. I don't think it went 24 hours until cable came along. I may misremember that, but I can remember sitting there as a really young kid waiting on TV to come back on so I could watch cartoons.
 
Also cruising in my ratty old '70 Chevelle after I got off work, which seems alien to younger folks these days.
 
Longhaul said:
I can remember as a kid that at Midnight the stations went off the air and did not come on until the next morning. I don't think it went 24 hours until cable came along. I may misremember that, but I can remember sitting there as a really young kid waiting on TV to come back on so I could watch cartoons.
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Yep, and the stations signed off with the National Anthem.
 
Yep, more than once I can remember having fallen asleep while watching TV only to wake up watching the American flag waving on a flagpole on the TV.

And don't even get me started about having to get up and walk to the Tv to change the channel. I remember the first TV that I actually purchased, while going to college. It was a 13" color TV that I sat on my dresser across the room from my bed -- and I thought it was the bee's knees. Heck, I can't even read half the text on my 13" Macbook Pro today at a distance of probably less than a foot.
 
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