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Shoutout to the 3am airing of Mama's Family that taught me more about local TV than any class
Last Friday I was up at 3am with a sick cat and ended up on some channel out of Dayton showing Mama's Family with the original 1983 commercials still in it, like a local ad for a carpet place called Ollie's that I am pretty sure closed decades ago. My cat just stared at the screen while I sat there wondering if this was a rerun, a mistake, or somebody at the station falling asleep at the switch. Turns out a guy on a forum said some small stations still run old tapes because buying new ones costs too much, so the ads come with them whether anyone wants them or not. Now I kind of want to hunt for other channels doing this, because watching a dead store sell me a recliner at 3am felt weirdly cozy. Has anyone else caught a rerun where the commercials were older than the show itself?
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emmaking24d ago
Old ads aren't some cozy time capsule, they're just the station being too cheap to update their gear while still selling you the same garbage. A dead carpet store and a recliner nobody can buy isn't charming, it's lazy.
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