Are you old enough to remember growing up with no more than three or four TV stations to watch…and something called a test pattern when the stations were not broadcasting? Yes, TV actually signed off ...

Long before HD and digital television, before cable and flat screens, Channel 6 looked a whole lot different. A slide, called a test pattern, was the first-ever image broadcast on KOTV on October 15th ...

While most countries have switched to digital broadcasting, and most broadcasts themselves have programming on 24/7 now, it’s hard to remember the ancient times of analog broadcasts that would ...

75 Years On News On 6: First KOTV Test Pattern Aired It is a big anniversary in the history of our station, KOTV. In 2024, we are celebrating 75 years on the air. October 15 is the anniversary of the ...

[Nicholas Murray]’s Composite Test Pattern Generator is a beautifully-made, palm-sized tool that uses an ESP32-based development board to output different test patterns in PAL/NTSC. If one is checking ...