Summary
In just a few days, television stations will begin switching from analog signals to digital transmissions. This is significant for Baby Boomers because we are the generation that has witnessed the development of this amazing medium from the first fuzzy black and white images to today's fancy high-definition screens that cover entire walls.
It was less than a year after WIBW-TV began broadcasting in November 1953 that my family bought our first television. I was just a little tyke, but I remember the day my father carried it into our living room and set it down in the corner. Encased in a large wooden box it had a bulbous screen that looked like an eye stuck wide open.See the full content of this document
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Another Milestone, and We Get to Watch
My fascination with, and lifelong addiction to, television began just moments after Dad turned it on.
WIBW was the...See the full content of this document
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