Mickey Newberry nailed this song. Grew up watching tv go off at night. The only time it stayed on 24 hours was the Jerry Lewis Labor Day Telethon for Muscular Dystrophy.

I lived in Texarkana in 1978 for a short while. I remember this sign off. Memories.

I just died. I am from Shreveport. This song taught me to be a patriot. I am in NYC for 30 years with people who hate our country. Sad.

Grew up in Lufkin watching this S'port tv station and their sign off

Yeah... they should still be playing this.... it stands for none of the propaganda. You let others dictate your life...take it back!

Hardly any stations left that don't operate 24/7/365(366 in leap years) now.If nothing else,they play infomercials in early morning hours

R.I.P KTBS 3 Analog ????-1999

Only Elvis doing it better.

Many nights as a kid I remember watching this.😥 Time goes by too fast.

As a kid in the 80s i use to stay up to watch the tv sign off.

Is that THE Al Legrand doing the voice work?

Was a Shreveport Louisiana Tv Station KTBS Channel 3 an ABC affiliate or a CBS affiliate back then from 1975?!

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Such a fond memory of this simpler time. If I was up I'd turn on the TV just to close the night out with this beautiful rendition and sign off. Brings a tear to my eye today.

Louisiana Public Broadcasting Closedown 1999

Help me remember, I swear KTBS updated the video to use Elvis version of this song. Am I right?

Anyone got a link to the "3's on your side" song from the 80's/early 90's? "Working hard for you channel threeeeeee KTBS..." Surely some of ya'll remember it.

I still remember staying up and seeing this right after the "Big Movie" on Saturday night. Now I recall how Reisor Bowden and other announcers referred to the station as "Television Three" through the early 80's. Lovely, even though it used stock footage. I wish someone could dig out Channel 12's sign-on film they used around the same time. If I remember it correctly, they probably shot all of it themselves with beautiful scenery around the Shreveport area, and then aerial footage of their tower near Mooringsport (before it fell down that one time). The music used was a John Denver instrumental. I can't remember the announcer's name but he also did local commercials like for Powell Buick-GMC.

Im from shreveport la i growed up listening at this song i hate what it stands for but i love the song n video

Us 11 years later

young people still can't believe that TV used to shut down every night.

Poll: how many would give up cells, the internet and Amazon and go back to the Princess and the brick remote if it was a requirement to be transported back to these times? Simpler, yes, less technical, but nobody really knew the difference, did they? I wonder if B Gates ever gets nostalgic lol

Omg this is right by my old house

The music heard in the background is "I Wish I Was in Dixie" by whoever sang this song...BTW, there's no SSB film or test pattern at the end!

What an amazing version of Dixie. Truly beautiful. 😭

Dave, Mickey Newberry.... One of the GREATS.... I miss those days

I like your style pups1678

Is this the song of the European Americans from the south?

Man that would have been a beautiful sign off montage if they hadn’t chosen an anthem of the Confederacy as background music 😬 I know it’s historic but still 😬

I need a time machine, everything that fits my soul is in the past.

They played this in the 80's as well.

Dixie was the fight song for the Confederacy. but Battle Hymn of the Republic was the fight song of the Union. This was American Trilogy originated by Elvis. this rendition was sung by an African American man. Don't care what any Yankee says. its beautiful and I am glad I grew up in East Texas to experience this sign off across the state lines

From the original ABC Shreveport, Louisiana Affiliate KTBS-TV sign-off, we will be hearing "An American Trilogy" by Mickey Newbury. This very same song, also played on its CBS Lafayette, Louisiana Affiliate KLFY-TV sign-off, and this reminds us of the old KXII-TV Channel 12 sign-off back in the '70s when it was played at Midnight on its then dual NBC and CBS Ardmore-Sherman-Denison-Ada Affiliate (Now CBS 12 Fox 12 and my 12) . And we love this sign-off to bring back memories.

now this is how a sign off should've been back then. Nice, mellow, and went out with care. The sign offs here in Baltimore often frightened me as a child.....don't ask why. They just did. Maybe some of those sign offs scared any of you as a child where you live.

Honestly, if I were a kid back in that time and I watched that on TV late at night, I'd be absolutely terrified. Such a depressing, morbid sign off, with a song about the Civil War, no less.

Pups said it all in the comment below. I grew up east of Tyler and we watched Shreveport stations. This sign off is still one of my favorite memories...what a great song and what great memories. I lost both my mom and dad in 2016 and I miss them every day. Listening to this makes me feel just a little bit closer to them. Thanks spufferama for posting this. It is so very meaningful to me.

American Trilogy official soundtrack of the history of NASCAR and the Winston Cup 1948 through 1987 also 75 seasons story of the National Football League and last but not least KTBS TV channel 3 Shreveport Louisiana lastly but not least tribute to Lane Frost a rodeo champion

This song makes me feel so sad, brings back such good memories. I'm glad I grew up during that time.

Oddity Archive sent me here.

I loved this sign off, and I loved those days. Great memories, thanks for sharing.

An Ark-La-Tex classic!

Back then, television was much more, how should I say it? Humble? Carefree? I dunno. But back then there was little to no infomercials, no 12 hour news, and it signed off and on every night and morning. I wish I was alive back then to experience it.

Damn, he wasn't kidding, this IS creepy.

This has to be the most heartwarming sign off i ever seen.

i think him and tom hanks are related

One of the lengthier sign-offs I've ever seen. Usually a station's sign-off took maybe 2-3 minutes at the most while this one goes on for over five minutes. Very well-done though.

If this really is from 1975, then you got the oldest North American sign off in KZbin. There's a 1973 BBC2 sign off (or closedown, as they say over there) on KZbin.

Nice animated seal of good practice there :)

I remember staying up past bedtime and after this was over you would just get a constant tone. Times were so much better and simple. Sometimes I wish we could go back in some ways. Wow! Brings back lots of memories.

KTBS.. hmm, memories all the way from Jefferson, TX.