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Posted: 6/26/2019 7:08:46 PM EDT

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HBO, and whatever six movies they have in 24 hr rotation...........

I think I saw "Victory" 11 times, it sucked every time.

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Ghostbusters was awesome every 18 times

Posted: 6/26/2019 7:08:53 PM EDT

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HEY! I think I saw a boob on channel 6!!! HOLY SHIT! This is soo awesome!

Posted: 6/26/2019 7:10:07 PM EDT

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Probably the news as I was 1 1/2 year old

Posted: 6/26/2019 7:10:24 PM EDT

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Correct. Keep it on the down-low from the mods. Chan 6 was classic

Posted: 6/26/2019 7:11:31 PM EDT

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We only got cable with channels 2-13. Basic networks, plus TBS and another Atlanta station that had lots of cartoons.

Posted: 6/26/2019 7:13:31 PM EDT

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I wasn't home on the couch in 1985. I'd be surprised if I watched 100 hours of TV the whole year combined.

Posted: 6/26/2019 7:15:14 PM EDT

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Posted: 6/26/2019 7:17:52 PM EDT

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Posted: 6/26/2019 7:20:21 PM EDT

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Channel 26, or maybe 39.

We did not have cable.

Posted: 6/26/2019 7:31:28 PM EDT

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I was in a couple of back to back pretty difficult Navy tech schools. I didn't watch a ton of TV, but do remember watching GI Joe with the guys from C School. Shipwreck FTMFW.

Posted: 6/26/2019 7:37:51 PM EDT

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Who didn't have cable in '85??

Txl

Posted: 6/26/2019 7:41:09 PM EDT

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Posted: 6/26/2019 7:42:55 PM EDT

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Posted: 6/26/2019 7:45:03 PM EDT

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I watched a lot of MTV back then.

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This would have been as well

Posted: 6/26/2019 7:47:28 PM EDT

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1985? If there was news I needed to know, Martha Quinn was going to tell me about it.

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My dad used to do a ton of cable tv trade shows back then. He knew that I had a crush on her and got an autographed picture of her for me. Still have it around here somewhere.

Posted: 6/26/2019 7:50:02 PM EDT

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I'm not. I'm out gettin' some and enjoying a technology free world.

Posted: 6/26/2019 7:51:31 PM EDT

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We only had 2 4 7

We went outside ???????

Posted: 6/26/2019 7:53:40 PM EDT

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Posted: 6/26/2019 7:55:08 PM EDT

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railing my 16 year old GF

Posted: 6/26/2019 7:56:16 PM EDT

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what channel was Benny Hill on?

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2 PBS

Posted: 6/26/2019 7:58:07 PM EDT

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Scrambled soft-core porn.

Posted: 6/26/2019 8:21:14 PM EDT

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I didn’t

Mom couldn’t afford It.

We was so poor, I had to take the trash IN

Posted: 6/26/2019 8:22:10 PM EDT

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IIRC, we had channels 3,11,15,32,41. Can't remember the call letters to channel but I know it was CBS,NBC, ABC, KET,WLKY,WDRB. In '85 I was already into MX bikes & getting into cars.

Posted: 6/26/2019 8:46:12 PM EDT

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IIRC, we had channels 3,11,15,32,41. Can't remember the call letters to channel but I know it was CBS,NBC, ABC, KET,WLKY,WDRB. In '85 I was already into MX bikes & getting into cars.

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3-WAVE

11-WHAS

32-WLKY

41-WDRB

Posted: 6/26/2019 8:48:45 PM EDT

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Only one channel in my AO back then. Armed Forces Radio and Television Service (AFRTS) Far East Network (FEN).

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Something like this;

FEN commercials

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7I4VE2gwew

Posted: 6/26/2019 8:55:55 PM EDT

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I remember getting to the 99th level which is the highest level.

Posted: 6/26/2019 9:02:25 PM EDT

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Posted: 6/26/2019 9:33:56 PM EDT

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Posted: 6/26/2019 9:40:18 PM EDT

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2 PBS
4 ABC
5 CBS
9 can't remember
11 NBC
13 NBC (if I turned the antenna to the east rather than the west.)

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Salt Lake back in the day was
2 - KUTV - NBC
4 - KTVX - ABC
5 - KSL - CBS
7 - PBS - Univ. of Utah
11 - PBS - BYU
20 UHF - KSTU - Independent

Later on, 2 & 5 switched networks, so that CBS is on channel 2. and NBC on channel 5. Then KSTU moved off UHF to Channel 13 VHF, and became Fox in about 1988. Around that time, KJZZ Channel 14 came into existence owned by Larry Miller of the Utah Jazz. They eventually affiliated with PAX TV, ~~and then became a CW network channel~~. That's not right. Forgot about channel 30 UHF that came on after 14. It was the WB, then CW. It's still on digital channel 30.

I can't think of any others, it was pretty sparse.

Posted: 6/27/2019 9:35:43 AM EDT

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HBO = "Hey, Beastmaster's on!"

Posted: 6/27/2019 9:47:10 AM EDT

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We had all of 3 channels. Only rich people had HBO and MTV lol.

Posted: 6/27/2019 2:57:18 PM EDT

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HBO, and whatever six movies they have in 24 hr rotation...........

I think I saw "Victory" 11 times, it sucked every time.

HBO = "Hey, Beastmaster's on!"

When I would head over to a friend's house during High School it was always Excalibur was on HBO.

Posted: 6/27/2019 3:05:40 PM EDT

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!985? Home alone? I'm watching Jazzercise

Posted: 6/27/2019 3:09:06 PM EDT

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My dad somehow got a hold of a de-scrambler somewhere in the mid to late 80's. Small homemade looking box with a switch on it. Flip the switch and boom everything came it even the Playboy channel...

I always wondered how that thing worked. I bet it was stupid simple back then. I think some kids could get channels unscrambled by putting the selector between channels or something.

Posted: 6/27/2019 3:12:54 PM EDT

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We had 3 6 10 17 29 39 95 and 99, 95 was where the squiggly boobs were at.

Posted: 6/27/2019 3:20:54 PM EDT

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Posted: 6/27/2019 3:36:56 PM EDT

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On the weekdays, Channel 11 KTTV

Saturday mornings, I'd bounce between Channel 4 KNBC, Channel 7 KABC and Channel 9 KTLA.

I was still all about the cartoons back then. No cable, though.

Posted: 6/27/2019 6:53:32 PM EDT

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I am not watching TV, I am out playing Army so you can watch TV safe and sound, or getting drunk and fucking German girls.

Posted: 6/27/2019 6:57:21 PM EDT

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Probably somewhere in the woods smoking weed

or turning wrenches on my 72 Mach I or my 66 ford short bed.

Posted: 6/27/2019 6:57:28 PM EDT

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West Pac getting pussy, reruns on board that I never really watched...

Posted: 6/27/2019 6:57:57 PM EDT

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Probably nothing because we couldn't get reception in the hills of KY.

Posted: 6/27/2019 7:00:07 PM EDT

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In 1985 the place I was living in didn't get cable, so it was a choice of two CBS and one NBC stations

Posted: 6/27/2019 7:50:44 PM EDT

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Playboy channel didn't come on till what, 5 pm I think it was?

Posted: 6/27/2019 8:28:36 PM EDT

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19.5 was the descrambled Playboy channel

Posted: 6/27/2019 8:32:31 PM EDT

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I'm actually watching Spies Like Us right now on Amazon, so if we're talking 1985 style, I guess channel 3 or 4 or whatever it was you flipped to for the VHS player.