Saturday, April 18, 2009
TV History: Eaton's 1949 AD Selling TVs In Toronto Star
When I was doing some research on Toronto Star's excellent Pages Of The Past, I discovered many cool advertisements and OTA TV information, as it was when TV was just beginning to gain a more widespread audience in the late 1940s, through the 1950s. Here is an ad from Eaton's, promoting a General Electric TV set with the help of Buffalo's WBEN (later WIVB). This was seen January 13, 1949.
until now, i did not know the historical significance of this excerpt from an e-mail u sent me on JUNE 25th, 2008 while i was away down south....
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...Been playing with the antenna too, and during some of the freaky weather we've had I've been able to get MORE digital channels!!!! I finally snagged WGRZ NBC , which also carries a digital sub-channel of weather news. I also got WKBW (ABC) which has TWO additional sub-channels. It carries WNGS and W-something-else. WNGS is an independent Buffalo channel with hilariously bad local commericals.
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So, yeah, I was geeking out over all the channels I was picking up. (They seem to have disappeared since the weather-burst, but I may need to look into that.)
Also found some local Canadian ones, like both Omnis. :-)
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looks like u've been "looking into that" for 2 and a half years now....