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Your comment made me realize how some younger people have no idea of, or at least no first-hand experience of static on TV and radio since it is all digital nowadays.

My great grandparents had a black and white TV when I was a toddler, and I'm 36!

The amount of change millennials and the generations before and after us have seen is boggling.

I was out in country Victoria, Australia a few months back and the internet was TERRIBLE. I'm talking, JPG's loading line by line terrible. And this was on 'alleged' 4G.

I felt pretty nostalgic for all of 2-3 minutes before I started pulling my hair out. I feel nostalgic about it again now.

I have a super modern flatscreen. Sometimes, when it can't connect to the laptop it shows what I believe is "simulated" static noise! I love that :D

"The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel."

The hot dust is also remnants of the Big Bang, if that helps. Of course, so are we. :)

The static on your TV set is <1% CMB, mostly it is interference from other man-made sources and IIRC there is some coming from the sun.