The 50-somethings knew what this meant, so did the 30-something who was on the call. The 20-something on the call had no idea where the saying came from. We explained that it was from the 1960’s television show, Batman.
I recall when my family first got a color TV set. It was in the late 1960s, and I was about four years old. I had only seen TV in black and white. We had a rooftop antenna and received five channels. Our UHF antenna was pointed at Scranton/Wilkes-Barre, PA. We received WNEP Channel 16 (ABC), WDAU (now WYOU) Channel 22 (CBS), and WBRE Channel 28 (NBC). WVIA Channel 44 (National Educational Television (NET), now PBS) was on the air, but we never watched because this was before there was Sesame Street. Our VHF antenna was pointed toward Binghamton, NY for WNBF (now WBNG) Channel 12 (CBS).
Incidentally, in the 1950s, there were more UHF TV channels in the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre market.
- WILK Channel 34 in Wilkes-Barre - There were two ABC affiliates in the market. WARM-TV Channel 16 and WILK-TV Channel 34. Eventually they merged into WNEP-TV Channel 16.
- WTVU Channel 73 in Scranton - This station was not affiliated with a network except when it was briefly part of the Dumont network. They blamed their poor viewership on their position on the dial. They were supposed to move to Channel 44 (years before WVIA), but they went out of business before that happened.
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