> The stations would play the national anthem and there'd be a montage of stock footage: Mount Rushmore, a bald eagle flying over treetops, military jets flying in formation, a shot of the flag, maybe some fireworks.
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> -Faux "The anthem ends and then they'd switch to the color bars, because most television repairmen work do color calibration tests between midnight and 6am, uh-huh, right." Pas

I remember ABC channel 20, WJCB coming on like that, only the color bars preceded the anthem. Then the station would tell a few technical details, like the number of billion(I mean 10^9) watts that station runs on. Every Saturday morning. Yes, I was a cartoon "junkie". :)

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