What's On

When I was a young boy, we had rabbit ears, got ABC, CBS and nothing more. If we would wrap the antenna in tin foil, we’d sometimes get NBC on channel four. Then along came something they called UHF, if you put that little round thing on your set. Then you would be able to have forty-one, and some PBS nobody cared to get. Pretty soon the TV shows started changing, all of a sudden they were blue, red and green. That’s when it became America’s pastime, to own one of those big consoles was the dream. Every house had an antenna on the roof, the kids lying on a pillow on the floor. We had cartoons on each Saturday morning, I wonder who could ask for anything more. But more is exactly what all of us got, when they gave us the new cable in our town. A hundred channels of nothing much to watch, but it would take an hour to search around. Then we got Hi-Fi and Wi-Fi, and Dolby, with digital HD, 4K and 3D. Then came Atari, Nintendo, and X-Box, Play Stations and virtual reality. Now it’s Netflix, Hulu and Paramount plus, or a hundred other ways that we can stream. It’s no wonder our kids stopped playing outside, when they could see it all while glued to their screen. There’s just way too many things to watch these days, all this technology is to blame, I guess. But after all these years I still wonder why, I only watch ABC or CBS.