October 3, 1980 commercials with WNAC sign off

Mostly taken from The New Avengers off WNAC/CBS.
1. Folger's (partial)
2. Ivory soap
3. Boston Museum of Science Energy Phone
4. The CBS Late Movie New Avengers opening bumper
5. The CBS Late Movie commercial bumper
6. Doritos
7. L'eggs Sheer Energy
8. Betty Cracker Snackin' Cake
9. Sylvania Superset
10. Quincy promo
11. National Home Life Assurance Company
12. The CBS Late Movie commercial return bumper
13. Listermint
14. Kellogg's
15. Enhance hair conditioner
16. Brite
17. The Jeffersons promo (Odd to see this billed as part of a "movie")
18. Plywood Ranch
19. Inside Sports featuring Muhammad Ali
20. Election '80 coverage on WNAC Newsroom 7 promo
21. Lynda Carter and Don Rickles for Diet 7Up (she looks older here than she would for her Maybelline run)
22. Compoz
23. Topol
24. Porcelana
25. Golden Needles/Lou Grant/Tell Me My Name/The Saint promos
26. People Weekly magazine
27. Candlepin Pros promo
28. Humphrey Center
29. Another National Home Life Assurance Company
30. Another The CBS Late Movie commercial bumper
31. (same as #26)
32. Cotting School For Handicapped Children
33. United Cerebal Palsy
34. Another he CBS Late Movie commercial return bumper
35. A Perfect Match promo
36. CBS 1980-81 ID
37. Another Candlepin Pros promo
38. Massachusetts Developmental Disabilities Council
39. United Way bumper
40. WNAC October Community Calendar
41. The Prevention Center of the North Shore Council on Alcoholism, Inc.
42. Reflections biblical reading from the book of Ecclastiastes (Most famously adapted into "Turn! Turn! Turn!" by the Byrds)
43. WNAC-TV 7 Boston sign-off with Star-Spangeled Banner

[@mikesmemoriesfromthepast89]

The ending announcers for 2 National Home LIfe Assurance Company commercials were Ted Alexander and the late Jack Reynolds. Of course, the Inside Sports ending announcer was also Ted Alexander. And the WNAC-TV sign off announcer was the late Leif Jensen.

[@wmbrown6]

Where did Ted Alexander work, I ask?

[@JHollowayNetwork]

KLAS-TV was the only CBS affiliate that was 24/7 back then (had been since 1970).

[@MrIveyIsBonkers]

4:08 Mr. Hooper, is that you?

[@jareddicarlo7816]

Yes, that is Will Lee.

[@tvtimetravel]

It was Pete Seeger who originally wrote and sung "Turn! Turn! Turn!".

[@charlesjnbjbnbngb8518]

I was 5 years old living in Clearwater Florida at the time

[@mr2del]

I was 7 years old in Lawrence, MA at this time.

[@retronewfoundland]

The two WIVB Buffalo sign-offs I have did not have a "Reflection", though they did have a news update (both read by John Beard) followed by brief technical info (KED 76), a short film about the flag, and the 🇺🇲 and 🇨🇦 anthems, and finally the color bars. One of them ended with an extra station ID before the carrier was cut. I posted both sign-offs in 2013.

[@ericsamuelson5656]

This was the same signoff film seen on WNBC Ch 4 New York

[@RolloSmokes]

...and Mel Allen ("This Week in Baseball") in the spot with The Champ

[@wmbrown6]

So WNAC had color bars at the time, huh? Any old-style circular test pattern, or would that have been in the mornings?

[@17z483]

April 3, 2005 national anthem with WSBE opening in Providence

[@kmart3697]

Now WHDH indepedent

[@gidzmobug2323]

As I remember, the station was with NBC for a bit. There was a big dust-up between NBC and WHDH ownership (Sunbeam) before the latter decided to go independent (there are some videos here about the sale and affiliation issues).

[@spwash1000]

Skip to 28:36 for the sign-off

[@russellpavlov1343]

It included the U.S. Army/Mount Vernon SSB film that 2 stations from my hometown of Youngstown, Ohio used back in the day (WFMJ-TV 21 and WYTV 33)

[@EllinedaChicagoGirl]

@@russellpavlov1343 Speaking of that, There is no mentioning of National Association of Broadcasters, as well as the display of the "Seal of Good Practice" on the slides. Because WNAC is subscribing to the code until they abolished it in 1983, a year after they change the call sign and ownership.

[@roybroussard800]

@@russellpavlov1343 And WNBC in New York and WJLA in Washington DC.

[@Darwaxion]

Wtf with the ending??? Was it a Catholic or some other weird cult's channel?

[@BigSCTVfan]

It was Bawston ... A lot of Catholics up there back in 1980.

[@joshgalka9414]

28:35

[@BigSCTVfan]

You don't have the Jeffersons Late Movie they advertise at 9:21 in this video, do they? I bet they showed the T.A.T. Communications Company Logo at the end of that one!

[@wayfarer4578]

Why is that so important? Get a life!

[@BigSCTVfan]

@@wayfarer4578 If you had a life would you even be watching this video?

[@wayfarer4578]

@@BigSCTVfan I watch for sheer nostalgia, not for some stupid logo. Talk about trivial.

[@BigSCTVfan]

@@wayfarer4578 Nostalgia? What a dumb reason! Get a life!