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The references on this page seem to be in really bad shape, using bare URLs along with strangely-formatted citations that use descriptive passages alongside or in place of actual quotations. I will attempt to fix some of these, but would appreciate some help from a more experienced editor. pwnzor.ak (talk) 21:55, 1 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Signing off

There may be another article where this is appropriate, but since I'm here ...

An old comic strip on gocomics.com has a young child fascinated by the test pattern rather than an actual program. This led to a lot of comments, obviously unsourced, about how things were back in the day. I misread something and was going to say digital stations couldn't sign off without a lot of "recalibrating" and such. Actually, it was hard on the early broadcast equipment. Another commenter said the test patterns were used during the day when there wasn't a lot of daytime programming to help installers.

Lots of research for someone to do. Maybe me, but I find I don't have much time these days.— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 18:43, 13 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]