Maria_Stephanos's Blog

Maria,

Remember when there wasn't anything on a certain channel except the test pattern making that awful humming sound? LOL Life was so much easier back then wasn’t it? Now, we have so many different channels to watch, and yet, still really nothing to watch. So, how far have we really come?

I loved that test pattern Jovanone. See I was destined to be on tv....

It's pretty sad when there's a couple hundred channels and nothing on...Which is why I watch VERY LITTLE TV. Unless it's like Egypt Week on the Science Channel, normally I just watch the news on any given day.

Ock, don't even get me started on reality TV! I've got a roommate (sorta) now who's obsessed with it...I may just lose what's left of my mind!

Maria,
Seems like everything was better when we had less info overload back then.

Crank up the DVR and record some TVland for
some of the great old shows especially
All in the Family it's Scary how relevant
the issues they dealt with back then are still
issues today.

Love the Blog and jovanone is right, watching the news sure is easy when you are the one delivering it.

How about Tuesday nights,

Happy Days
Laverne and Shirley
Three's Company ...( we were put to bed when this started, but I would sit at my bedroom door and listen)....

There are a few of us out there who grew up with Ed Sullivan and The Jackie Gleason Show, Gun Smoke, Sky King, and my very favorite (first show I remember as a young child of 5) Captain Kangaroo- lol! I used to love the Andy Williams christmas specials too, and the yearly event of The Wizard of Oz, usually on a Sunday evening. Now you can rent the DVD anytime you want, and it doesn't seem as special as it did back then.
Great blog, Maria. It is nice to think back on simpler times when you actually had to get up from your couch to turn the channel!!

Maria,
How about F Troop, or on Sunday Mornings
It was Davey and Golieth(sp).
But it was great there was one tv and we had to watch what was on other wise we had to get up
and change the channel.
Also how come until Cable tv first came around
the reception wasn't really that bad.
Then as soon as Cable Tv came you couldn't get anything without the box.
Also tell Mark "you mean you had tv back in your day?"LOL LOL

The truth is Maria, I've always liked you as an anchor and this blog subject just confirmed what a straight forward, down-to-earth person you are. This may have just been a fluff subject to you but it came across as genuine and sincere and that you are an old fashion girl at heart. It just demonstrates why people can relate to you.

Back in the good old days when local news went from only 6:00 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. and sometiimes shorter.

When the weekend always had the B team working.

Thankfully, now news goes all day and the weekend reporters are also the A team.

Get up and turn the TV on?! You mean there used to be a time when there were no remote controls? How medieval and barbaric! And I suppose to get to the TV to turn it on you had to walk 5 miles uphill through the snow. And what of these shows you mentioned? Aside from Starsky & Hutch, which is of course the Ben Stiller & Owen Wilson film that came out years ago when I was an infant, I've never heard of them. You made those up right? Lawrence who? Did these shows have sound? Color? And most importantly how did your husband allow you to gain access to the remote? Was there some sort of household coup? You never, EVER let the female have the remote! Otherwise you're stuck watching The View, Oprah or whatever is on Lifetime. And God help you if there is a Sex & The City marathon on some channel.