KXJB Valley City, ND - Final Edition & Sign-off [November 7, 1979]

A fairly casual evening news recap (I think this aired just after midnight?) followed by the sign-off for KXJB, channel 4 in Valley City and Fargo, ND.
KXJB used to be the CBS affiliate carried by Greater Winnipeg Cablevision and Videon in Winnipeg, Canada.
Naval Hymn was matched to Roll Tide from the 1995 film Crimson Tide, so had to be muted.
Index:
0:00 CBS Ident
0:05 Final Edition
6:48 KXJB Ident
7:01 The Christopher's thought for the day
8:05 The Navy Hymn
9:11 KXJB Sign-off
10:00 US National Anthem

[@jessecoffey4737]

"FAULTY SOUND IS OURS" Good to know. And this actually aired around 12:40 on November 8 of the following day, following an airing of _Hawaii Five-O._ (SOURCE: Winnipeg Free Press archives)

[@NEPatriot]

Well, if anything KXJB was sure Avant Garde with part of their sign-off sequence (the news). And I think this is the smallest TV station to display the Seal of Good Practice. This is a RARE piece of TV for this part of the U.S.

[@luisreyes1963]

This definitely has the earmarks of a small town TV station.

[@RolloSmokes]

Charley Johnson should have been Bill Tush's co-anchor in the early days of Superstation WTBS in Atlanta. That would have been an interesting match.

[@erikpridemore3174]

After 5:48 the music not heard in Sports scores shown in Final Edition from then CBS Valley City-Fargo affiliate KXJB-TV (now KRDK-TV), was muted at 5:53 due to a copyright claim by a record label's music distributor as seen from this post prior to The Christopher's "Thought for the Day," the U.S. Navy Hymn and KXJB-TV's sign-off at 9:11 which leads up to a locally produced National Anthem.

[@dukeofrodtown1705]

Does anybody know who the choir performing the US anthem are, at the 10:00 mark? Beautiful rendition.

[@Jerseysson27]

The TV station was in its early days I think, so they were learning how to fix issues

[@probnot]

They'd been on the air for 24 years at this point (1955) so the TV station wasn't new. But I think the technology was moving quickly.

[@mariepavlov9144]

The same Navy Hymn film used by WRTV Indianapolis, Indiana.

[@briankeller788]

The Washington Caps-Winnipeg Jets score: Caps 6, Jets 3.

[@RickOnTheDrums]

Man this news team was bush league. Looks like they picked people off the street and filmed this in someone's basement.

[@hf6150]

It's North Dakota. A "first job" for the main anchor, but probably not his dream job. I wonder who was the News Director who let them do this.

[@bobm7250]

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