Just heard someone on a YouTube video tell viewers to "stay tuned" for something coming up later, and I'm struck by how some phrases outlive their initial context. Literally, it makes no sense to say "stay tuned" on YouTube, but everyone still knows what it means and thinks nothing of it, even people who have probably never actually watched a TV channel via terrestrial transmission.
@scalzi I assumed "stay tuned" is actually from radio, not TV...
@davidr @scalzi my first TV was old and actually we turned a tuning dial that could be wrong and we'd not quite be on the channel just like a radio station