On February 28, 1983, a wartime surgeon named Hawkeye said
“Goodbye, farewell, and amen.” Ten years later, Mayday Malone
straightened a picture on the wall and turned out the lights for the
last time. In millions of living rooms across the country, viewers sat
quietly through these final moments, saying goodbye together. The
credits rolled, but no one moved.
Carried freely
through the air, broadcast television invited participation without
qualification. The same signal that arrived at a downtown apartment also
reached a home on the edge of a country road. Broadcast television
created a quiet cultural leveling, allowing audiences to form
connections not just with stories, but with one another.
The
Blackwing 343 is the tribute to broadcast television. Each pencil
features a color bar finish inspired by the NTSC test pattern, and extra-firm graphite. The model number 343, a reference to the 343
scanlines on early CRT televisions, is imprinted with a “TV snow” silver
holographic foil.