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 did people ever 'tune' their tv to a new station like they do analogue radios, or was it always a tune- once/recall with number on remote situation?

@PetraOleum @scalzi I’m only 39 and my first TV in my room as a kid was full analog tuning.

And grandmother’s was black and white. And you had to adjust the antenna per channel.

@graemek @PetraOleum @scalzi i'm sure you mean you, as the child, had to adjust the antenna per channel because that was child labor when i was growing up. i'm younger than you and mine was too, but it might be a poor thing. our TV was my great-grandpas
@deilann @PetraOleum @scalzi My grandmother only watched General Hospital on that TV, so it was up to us kids to figure out how to find ANYTHING ELSE when we were over there.