I saw my first TV about age 4, around 1951. It is one of my earliest memories. My Uncle Frank was an electronics hobbyist and had one of the first TVs in Tampa, he hooked it up to his huge ham antenna in the back yard of his house. On good days we could pick up a grainy signal from Jacksonville or Havana, baseball from the latter, a test pattern in the former.

I didn't start watching TV regularly until about age 7, when my grandfather had a B&W set. We lived in New York at the time and I remember us walking miles in the snow to his place just to watch TV. Color was available by then, Disney broadcast in color, but we didn't know anyone who had a color set. I remember watching Ed Sullivan, The Friday Night Fights, Playhouse 90 and I Love Lucy. Lucy was a big deal because Desi was Cuban, we felt like we had arrived.

We got our first TV about the same time you got yours.