{"id":33590,"date":"2012-07-24T06:55:18","date_gmt":"2012-07-24T10:55:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eyesofageneration.com\/?p=33590"},"modified":"2023-05-21T11:37:24","modified_gmt":"2023-05-21T15:37:24","slug":"do-you-remember-this-i-do-in-the-screen-shot-below-from-art-linkletters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/?p=33590","title":{"rendered":"Remember The Small White Blinking Boxes, Top Right Screen?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Do You Remember This? I do&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>In the screen shot above from &#8216;Art Linkletter&#8217;s House Party&#8217; on CBS, you can see a small, white square in the upper right corner. If you were watching the show, and paying attention, you may have noticed that soon after it appeared, a commercial would miraculously appear too.<\/p>\n<p>At CBS, this electronically inserted square was called an EPSQ. It stood for Extended Program Que and would appear solid 30 seconds prior to a commercial as a warning to stations along the network, and then just prior to going into the break it blink on and off a few times.<\/p>\n<p>During a live show, as most things were in the 50s and early 60s, this was the signal for a station break, and if I am not mistaken, the number of blinks about 15 seconds out would tell stations how many network sponsor spots were in the break.<\/p>\n<p>NBC also did this electronically but may have called their system something else. ABC would just superimpose an art card with a small white circle in the corner. This stopped when most shows went to tape and the information could be teletyped to the stations.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Gady Reinhold for his help with this story.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/189359747768249\/photos\/a.197108410326716.39183.189359747768249\/413134438724111\/?type=3\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp_automatic_fb_img\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Do-You-Remember-This-I-do...-In-the-screen-shot-below-from-Art-Linkletters\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/189359747768249\/posts\/413134455390776\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do You Remember This? I do&#8230; In the screen shot above from &#8216;Art Linkletter&#8217;s House Party&#8217; on CBS, you can see a small, white square in the upper right corner. If you were watching the show, and paying attention, you may have noticed that soon after it appeared, a commercial would miraculously appear too. At [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":33591,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pgc_sgb_lightbox_settings":"","ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"_vp_custom_popup_image":0,"_vp_format_audio_url":"","_vp_album_images":[],"_vp_custom_thumbnail":0,"_vp_custom_thumbnail_focal_point":[],"_vp_custom_thumbnail_cover":0,"_vp_hover_thumbnail":0,"_vp_hover_thumbnail_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[784,783,782,787,806],"class_list":["post-33590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-abc","tag-cbs","tag-nbc","tag-net","tag-wor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33590"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78976,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33590\/revisions\/78976"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/33591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}