KTCA Channel 2 PBS - October 1987 Sign-Off and Credit Roll After Austin City Limits

[@JontyMaster]

Such an epic sign off!

[@jamiewillkner8742]

This is one cheerful sign off!

[@ChristopherSobieniak]

I'm more impressed they went to the trouble of "setting up the color bars" like that. You'd think they let it play for another minute or two before cutting the carrier.

[@mjanovec]

Yes, you're right. KTMA 23 moved into the Como Avenue studios when KTCA moved to downtown St. Paul in 1989.

[@ChristopherSobieniak]

Such history of certain buildings like that isn't too uncommon. My PBS station once occupied a studio that once belonged to the town's first TV station for many years, they were given them for free I think.

[@adamharris7775]

At 0:27, the theme where the Yamaha DX7 ROM-2A patch “Harmonica 1” was heard.

[@bwc1976]

"You'll turn us on and you'll love it"... Sounds like a threat. I also remember the "TV Worth Watching" jingle being used on KERA in Dallas, except instead of "public TV" they sang "channel 13".

[@matthewcampbell7985]

That's it's used for sign offs.

[@DesmondShannon87]

PBS used the same song for all their stations and just altered the lyrics to match the station or would just leave it generically as "Public TV"

[@SakuraCrusader]

Imagine You Are a kid in 1987 And You Are Watching Tv with your Parents and then you hear 🎶You Turn us on and we love it🎶 And then you start Crying because you know it's the Sign off.

[@TheTVMadman]

a real thing of beauty.

[@SamIsTheRailfanner]

As a Minnesotan I love this

[@levonivey3046]

That song brings back memories, theme wear the good old days

[@NEPatriot]

Including of course at 1.31 a shot for the former Como Ave. studios along with their sister station KTCI/17...akin to WGBH/WGBX Boston. By the way I read that facility is now where the Twin Cities CW station WUCW channel 23 is now located. That station once called KTMA was where the cult classic Mystery Science Theater 3000 was created.

[@Danielcom15]

This a 3d testcard and reversing collapse.

[@HornetHKensa]

1:02 what is this song?

[@90sNath]

@PXLTRON i mean. the credits have the entire thing. In great quality no less, so we don't even need the master recordings. Edit: Damn, the original response that I responded to that responded this comment is gone. Just found this out 2 years later. Wonder why it was deleted?

[@sarahworthington4103]

We will not see them no more.

[@davidmatthewvinotjr8396]

By chance, does anyone know the preformer of the Austin city limits clip?

[@mjanovec]

David Matthew Vinot, Jr Are you referring to the theme music you're hearing as the credits roll? That is Gary P. Nunn doing "London Homesick Blues."

[@davidmatthewvinotjr8396]

I'll have to take a look to make sure.

[@djt8937]

@@mjanovec you know your stuff!

[@thisisabadchannel.stopsubs2952]

There's just something about that KTCA logo that's just unsettling.

[@ancnews9661]

PBS LOGO 1989

[@hf6150]

Strange to see Bud underwriting Austin City Limits. Were Lone Star and Pearl Beer extinct at this point?

[@gregsells8549]

Lone Star is still around, but they were outbid by Bud for the ACL sponsorship. Pearl, also still around, never underwrote the show. I think they're now underwritten by Shiner Bock, along with Dell, American Airlines, the Austin Convention Center and others.

[@ЕленаНикулина-л5е]

I see mr phead

[@xxzeppyxz7418]

KTCA TV Promotional Material Feed Warning Screen

[@donovanhoxtell4374]

0:36 pbs logo

[@lejlakantar9692]

KTCA now concludes it's broadcast DAY!!!! - Little Einsteins Reboot - BEB Studios

[@jamiericks6105]

who...

[@keishanieves525]

Ktca 😭 11:00PM be in 6:00 AM 🤑🤑

[@KHWendy28]

ITS NOW TPT2!

[@mjanovec]

The channel is still technically KTCA, but they use TPT2 as their on-air name. Twin Cities Public Television (TPT) is the name for the overall organization that owns KTCA and KTCI.

[@TheWorldSpinsSlowly]

goodbye ktca

[@mjanovec]

KTCA still exists. While they call it "TPT" on the air, the official call letters for the station are still KTCA. TPT is just the umbrella organization that owns KTCA and KTCI.

[@juliegaetos6959]

@@mjanovec Yep. The callsign remains, and even featured at station IDs of TPT. KTCI uses KTCA's digital virtual via 2.3 (as KTCI became TPTLife, and KTCA as the general channel of TPT). They have their transmissions located at FOX Twin Cities Transmitter. KTCA/KTCI resides on virtual 2.

[@allenkruse-si4eh]

Ktca

[@chimaamanambu6067]

🎵TV worth watching! Public TV!🎵