A tiny TV librarySourced
Fifty hours of cartoons.
Fourteen old films. Repeat.
In the early 1980s, Rhode Island station WSTG stayed on the air while its owner sought a buyer by rerunning 50 hours of cartoons and 14 old movies. It broadcast two hours a day, six days a week, the minimum needed under its test authority.
A modest library
kept the signal alive.
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