On Jan 4, 4:54*pm, flashdrive wrote:
Brenda Ann wrote:
"Bob Dobbs" wrote in message
news:4962f4b8.8756359@chupacabra...

David Eduardo wrote:

After TV "arrived," meaning the two to three years after the freeze was
lifted, radio at night was barely listened to. So skywave reception (or
DXX
reception) became of little use as there were few listeners and fewer
advertisers.

That blatant lie
just goes to illustrate what an uninformed jerk you are

--

Operator Bob
Echo Charlie 42

It took a lot longer than two or three years for television to penetrate..
most people couldn't begin to afford a set. I think the first TV we had was
in 1962. Mind you, not all were as poor as we were, but almost nobody I knew
when I was very young had a television. It was still several months' pay to
buy one new, and most of the "older" sets were still in use by their
original owners because they were a heavy investment.

- The first color sets were the equivalent to a years pay for many.

Maybe One Months Pay or 2~3 Months Pay at most
-but- Not a Whole Years Pay in the early 1960s.

IIRC - I paid cash for my parents 2nd Color TV for
a Christmas present; and a HeathKit Color TV Kit
to build for myself in the Mid-1960s the first year
I was out of High School. ~ RHF