A version of this post originally appeared on Tedium, a twice-weekly newsletter that hunts for the end of the long tail. You don’t know Norbert D. Larky and David D. Holmes, but you’ve definitely seen ...

In November 1953, The New York Times reported that late-night television audiences across New York had “discovered a new quiz game” on WNBT, the local NBC affiliate. It did not air on a regular basis ...

[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 ...

Before streaming and 24/7 programming, there was a time when TV stations actually signed off for the night. Yeah, unbelievable. You'd be watching a late movie or dozing through infomercials, and then, ...