Global TV sign off 1982

[@ivandee4011]

I was down at the waterfront this evening, and for some reason, this song came back to me. It made me realize how much I loved the Toronto of old. Thanks for posting!

[@redsquirrelftw]

TV signoffs feel so nostalgic, even though I was too young back then to really be up late enough to ever see one. There's just an odd charm to it. The idea that you can be up late enough to watch TV until there is nothing to watch because everything is literally, off. It's like "ok time for bed, everything is over".

[@SLam-ve3yp]

I'm 61 and I remember watching Come To The Movies... followed by this song and the national anthem. That's 41 years ago. I miss those days and my youth. My love for old movies never died. I've been collecting them for about 20 years on DVD and blu ray.

[@kimberleyhollyman90]

Omg, I think that's the first time I've actually seen that! As soon as I heard it, I almost threw down my phone (book) and shut off my light! For a moment, I had a panicked feeling, knowing that I'm supposed to be asleep and my mother was about to shut off the TV and come up the stairs to go to bed. If I got caught up that late and still reading, I'd be in big trouble! I was 11 in 1982. Lol, great throwback. Thanks for the memory, I think?😅

[@crlaw75]

Where I grew up, I was close to the Oil Springs transmitter. At night, I can see the tower blinking from a distance. CKCO's transmitter was close-by as well.

[@crlaw75]

No, but when we got an antenna booster, the shadow of either Global or CKCO was always in the background of UHF channels.

[@StukInBuf]

I'm paused at 1:57... When my folks and I moved to the Buffalo area from Louisiana in early 1980(and this was without the benefit of cable, as we only had the basic cable from 2 to 13), we were able to pick up 22 on the UHF for Global, even though channel 6's viewing area was geographically closer.

[@pgmeagle3026]

Ahhhh yes this brings back memories. I use to be able to receive channel 2 in Watertown, NY.

[@jacobjb]

You're awesome man. Thanks for archiving this mundane and forgotten part of Canada's history.

[@pmcpmc8005]

I was easly able to receive channel 2 from Watertown, NY back in the day with rabbit ears.

[@1L6E6VHF]

Thanks for posting this! I had been looking for this a few years ago and couldn't find it. I was about 11 then, and getting a new station seemed so exciting. A lot of people in our neighborhood bought new antennas, thinking that the new station would air programs that couldn't air in the US. Of course, that didn't happen with Global, people were confusing it with a station in Québec City.

[@TheShyguy2010]

i wonder where the people are now when peoples was walking on the street of Toronto when global sign off

[@lukewarmwater5320]

I lived in the Madawaska Valley and my mom used to let me sit up with her on weekends when I was a kid in the late 70s/early 80s and watch movies, this sign-off is flashback city to me...sitting on the couch in my pajama's eating popcorn with my mom watching horror movies together...

[@redonejs53]

I miss the ole days! This brings bak memories! Thanks very much for posting this!

[@obanyo9414]

You mean old

[@obanyo9414]

You mean old

[@bleepbleep1961]

Very memorable --- Thanks for uploading ... I like the fact there were NO ADS on the boards at that hockey game !!!!!

[@shaunfossett]

Tommy Ambrose works his magic again, this time for channel 6

[@pgmeagle3026]

Oh yes this brings back memories I used to be able to receive channel 2 when I lived in Watertown New York.

[@mattyoshida5213]

PGMEagle

[@TheNewGateStudios]

Ken Ryan was also the announcer of Bumper Stumpers!

[@karlament6939]

did he just say five million watts?? wow i can imagine the cooling system for that transmitter and how thick the run of coax cable going up the tower

[@TVNKeller]

It was 2x 55 kilo watt transmitter running in parallel. the output feeder line was 10 inches and 75 ohm not a standard 50 ohm. It is the highest ERP in North America. The UHF transmitters were Marconi Klystron amplifiers one for Vision and one for sound 55/5.5KW. These transmitters were moved to the Cobourg area transmitting on ch29. I know this as I worked in the transmitter dept. and set up a Chyron generator indicating Ch.22 will stop transmitting on Aug 14 1988 and please tune to Global's new channel 41 from the CNTower.. The cooling system was a pure water system and the condenser was the size of a single car garage door. this x2 as these Beast of transmitters were running in parallel. PS the Cobourg new location did not have enough ac power to run both transmitters 600v 800amp service was not enough.

[@1L6E6VHF]

It's worth mentioning that the station did not actually have a 5,000,000 watt transmitter. They (and virtually all TV stations, except the very smallest) had a transmitter of less power (here, 110kw in the horizontal blanking interval), in this case, though not all of it actually made it to the antenna. The antenna was a very complicated antenna that focused all of the power at an angle just below the horizon, so that the signal was as strong as they would have had with a five million watt transmitter feeding a simple antenna. The industry calls this Effective Radiated Power. Of note is that this video shows the Cottam (Windsor area) transmitter on the six-transmitter map, but the Cottam transmitter is skipped when the individual transmitters are mentioned. This is because the Cottam transmitter blew up (I believe in 1978), and Global saw no point in rebuilding it (since US network programs had to be blocked out, due to its proximity to Detroit). Global would return to the Sun Parlor region with a new transmitter, further away from Detroit (Stephenson) on Channel 22 in the late 1990s.

[@WPM_in_ATL]

Another broadcast RF guy here-I once was a transmitter supervisor on a 5 MW (5,000 kW) site in North Carolina. We had a 240 kW Philips (Pye) transmitter with five klystrons boiling away. 17" circular waveguide up a 1500' tower on a farm outside of Raleigh.

[@SkuldChan42]

I know it's an old reply but I'm sure he's quoting effective radiated power - which is actual transmission power plus antenna gain.

[@cinque8335]

@@TVNKeller great info! Do you know much about the Georgian Bay/Midland tower and transmitter? Grew up cottaging near the massive tower for channel 7 built u believe in 1987. It’s now still working in HD conversion. The tower is very tall and used sometimes as landmark for boating

[@tjackson2581]

I remember when global was channel 22... then it went to 13 and still is.

[@theloyalorderofclassictv5435]

Could 6 be picked up in Buffalo? I recall 22 could be picked up, but with static from Toronto

[@netizenkuripangistanyolo3339]

Global tv?, well here in my country Indonesia, our local channel is Global TV

[@johnmiller1376]

"This is global-tv canada signing-off goodnight" 🇨🇦🇺🇸☮️❤️✊.

[@StukInBuf]

The words in that song before the sign-off kinda give the same concept and ideal as does he long-standing *Action News* theme from Philly(WPVI, Channel 6).

[@x8pz]

It gives me the vibes too! I watch channel 6 on tv!

[@SherryStevens-m5w]

I remember before sign-off a camera went down the streets fabulous ty global Don berns was an announcer too on global after ken

[@Retrontario]

@wmbrown6 it was PAINT YOUR WAGON with Lee Marvin and Clint Eastwood

[@christopherbubb2890]

Notice how the wider map at 1:22 still displays the Channel 22 Cottam (now Stevenson) transmitter (Windsor/Essex County), although it is not mentioned in the remainder of the signoff and was off the air at this time. Oops!

[@ChristopherSobieniak]

It was sad it was off the air at the time.

[@cwf1701]

@azumanga111 There was a transmitter fire, plus the signal of Channel 22 could reach into Detroit. with a good pair of rabbit ears, i could watch Channel 22/29 from Macomb County MI. 22/29 sometimes put in a B grade signal in Metro Detroit. and before the fire, Channel 22 was blacking out some programs due to issues with the stations in the Windsor/Detroit area (CKGN/CIII did not have Detroit rights to some programs).

[@davidmatthewvinotjr8396]

there is an error between the screen with the transmitter coverage sites and the sarinia screen! they skipped over the Windsor site.

[@someguy23475]

That’s because their transmitter at Cottam caught fire a few years prior. They didn’t update the transmitter map. Also, St. Catharines is spelled incorrectly.

[@sf7truthseeker630]

😢. "FATHER, would you keep my heart while too many forget your blessings as is The Canadas?" 🙏😑⚔️🛡️ Station

[@bradjames891]

1982: the year of my birth!

[@NoblenessDee]

At 1 55 it shows a map of south ON. ive been looking at topographical maps and google maps trying to figure out what it is depicting ... Looks like a cliff or ridge. But im at a loss . one may guess a river but it really does not look like that ... any idea's anyone . (HI fr NS)

[@wmbrown6]

Which film was that, that Global TV showed? (I also heard that ending music from that same film before a sign-off of KREM-TV 2 in Spokane, WA, elsewhere on YT.)

[@karlament6939]

ha now that,s old i remember it way back then lol

[@Richard_K1630]

The Bishops Wife starring Ann Romney and her horse.

[@HT-ww3zg]

I was on Channel 29!

[@monaguebilly7858]

I was born in Midland at first, and I lived in Christian Island on April 4th, 2000, not 1982.

[@egasatria24_]

global tv sama di Indonesia, sekarang ganti ke GTV (ID)

[@jmvhsstudios381]

This one is the 1980.s but the sign off is not than the 2018 to 2015

[@buddypowe]

that off-air sound at the end that just creeps in is SO creepy

[@proudguy]

Those were better days.

[@DTVDragonsTelevisionRevised]

what song is in the sign off? im curious

[@amerigovespucci4076]

pitiful in every way............

[@750MaximX]

I always thought the girl sitting cross legged was mellowing out after smoking a joint. Anyone else?

[@ftjm69]

They used the same variant of O Canada for CBC

[@mysticgirl916]

Yes, with the beautiful seagull animation

[@Bluethunderboom]

Tommy Ambrose has a beautiful voice. What was the name of the soundtrack that Tommy Ambrose sing?

[@marcelmyricktv]

Tommy Ambrose - A Point of View

[@oong_12yearsold]

Sine wave tone na katunog ng dial tone ng telephone

[@stupot4686]

They showed the same O Canada video as CBC Newfoundland.

[@mbstone99]

I believe if I remember correctly that TV Ontario used that same version back in the late 70's/early 80's as well.

[@jalilmuhammad8270]

0:18 name of song please.

[@AD_FM_1969]

We've got to start

[@StukInBuf]

Was Global available only in the Southern part of Ontario, or was it also available throughout more of Canada?

[@iwantthe80sback59]

Southern Ontario.

[@irtbmtind89]

There were "unofficial" Global affiliates in other parts of the country that carried most of the American shows Global carried (like Simpsons, X-Files, Seinfeld etc) but didn't have Global branding. I think CJON in Newfoundland is the only station like this left.

[@ChristopherSobieniak]

​@@irtbmtind89I'm sure that was how it was until the 2000's and the network fully integrated itself throughout the country.

[@frankbrazil7918]

no cell phones. people actually reading print. hot cashews. i wanna go back to 1982

[@r3d0c]

only morons are fooled by the emotions of nostalgia

[@flatcapman]

only brainwashed idiots think modern always works. IT DOESNT

[@Sammy4549]

What better reason to go back to 1982. Hot Nuts.

[@christopherbubb2890]

I would guess based on the fashions and hairstyles that was filmed several years earlier. Maybe 1974 or '75.

[@wecontrolthevideo]

Actually this was made in 1974 when Global TV originally started. It was updated a number of times over the years, but the original footage of Toronto was always used.

[@johnmiller1376]

"Well i'm a tv-ontario fan myself".

[@johnpatterson4272]

Global had better shows and movies in 1982.

[@wmbrown6]

This query is more for others, but: Wasn't it WCBS-TV that had New York airing rights to "Paint Your Wagon" (given the many film packages from Paramount that that station ran over the years)?

[@macecoronel8186]

I was disappointed when they switched from the iconic logo here to the short-lived 'crescent Moon's logo, even if it was more of a fit. The 'sideways checkmark' is just dumb. As a kid in the '80s, the vo using the CIII call letters use to make me laugh, 'cause it sounds like he's stutters. They should bring back the old logo here. I doubt CTV or CBC will ever alter it.

[@ChristopherSobieniak]

I miss the old "G" as well.

[@Starakoprolitego]

Globo television netwerk 😂👍

[@proudguy]

Was the media was more honest back then, or was I just more naive then?

[@Starakoprolitego]

Globo telewiszyn netłerk

[@balancedaustralia]

These people need a more powerful national anthem. This is not enough.

[@bradjames891]

The Bulgarian national anthem is the most powerful one.

[@jadsi]

0:00 Did they seriously air skipping film on live tv? Disgusting

[@ChristopherSobieniak]

It's not exactly skipping, the film had a fixed section that was spliced directly on the print. This was back when physical film prints were ran in real-time on television. This was long before video mastering became commonplace in the 80's.

[@inversion66]

I wonder if the Come to the Movies logo gave anyone seizures.

[@StukInBuf]

@Tim Gueguen(open): Said logo kinda looks like it was patterned from ABC when they had their prime time movies from 1975-81, and then the "star tunnel" kind that ran from 81-87.