WNEW-TV Channel 5 (now WNYW), New York City - News, Sermonette & Sign-off 14 October 1984

This seventeen-minute video kicks off with a PSA promoting the New York State Museum in Albany. Following that is Channel 5's Late Night-Early Morning Report, with Ed Ladd reporting. Immediately afterwards is a promo for WNEW Radio AM 1130's all-night music show, Milkman's Matinee hosted by Marty Wilson. Then comes the Sermonette, delivered by Frank DeRosa of the Catholic Diocese, Brooklyn NY. The late Tom Gregory, a.k.a. "The Voice of Metromedia", renders the station sign-off announcement which follows the sermonette. After that is WNEW-TV's own SSB video, a montage of scenes of numerous small towns in the vicinity of New York City. The rendering of the SSB is the recording used in the classic "Flag Evolution" SSB film.

[@jimmyconway294]

It’s 2020, and I’m nostalgic for this video from the 1980s, which begins with a commercial about being nostalgic for the 1950s.

[@MeowingKittyCat]

When you consider the crud that so many stations air between midnight and 6 AM, I'd just as soon they go back to signing off late at night. Anyway, I miss Sermonette!

[@MichaelPhilipMaunes]

A lot of nostalgic memories, especially at every sign-off in the United States, Canada, Australia, and the Philippines, they give a sermonette or a prayer, then the sign-off notice and the national anthem.

[@lavontreyclarke3285]

"This is television station WNEW-TV Channel 5, New York, owned and operated by Metromedia Inc, with transmitter atop the World Trade Center and exclusive offices and studios located at 205 East 67th Street in New York City. WNEW-TV operates on an assigned frequency of seventy-six to eighty-two megahertz as authorized by the Federal Communications Commission. Some programs and portions of programs presented by this station have been recorded. WNEW-TV's entire broadcast schedule is a copyrighted original compilation work. No recording, retransmission, or other use may be made of WNEW-TV's programming without the express pior within consent of Metromedia Inc. Good night."

[@kevinbutler1955NYC]

The station began as WABD TV Ch.5..The NYC Flagship station of The Dumount TV Network from 1944 to 1958..it became WNEW TV Ch.5 in the fall of 1958 and it remained a part of Metromedia TV Inc.,until March of 1986..when it became a part of WNYW TV Ch.5.

[@marc108]

At approaching 62 i remember these fondly...i never knew i was insomniac....i just and still donenjoy the still of the over night....calming music and all

[@luislaplume8261]

I am old enough to remember when the newscast was 15 minutes long for national news 15 minutes for local news.At 1.00AM, the local stations signed off an did not go on until 6.00 AM.

[@saraflint2982]

This seems like it would have been very relaxing to watch. I guess it would have to be if it was 3.37 AM. This was 10 years before I was born. Wish I could've been around to see it.

[@michaelwilliams2865]

Hi, Had to reply to this. This was very relaxing to watch. I was ten years old at the time and it was the same year that I first got into the television sign offs. I reember these well. I wish I still had my VHS tapes of the clips I recorded back then. This was so much better and more calm to watch then the news of today. Televison airs news like 24/7 now and no matter what time of the night it is, all you see is commotion when you turn on your TV set, and frozen gridlock traffic on the traffic reports at four in the morning. Life was so much different back in 1984.

[@johnpastore7685]

It was, I was 18

[@jondickinson5623]

The New York State Museum commercial I remember seeing on the old Channel 5, It was run for a few years in the mid 80s.

[@17z483]

WLIW Mile 21, Garden City, Opening from 6 April 1993

[@carminecrapanzano1407]

Haven't seen that commercial in almost 40 yrs. I brought back pleasant memories. Ty

[@johnmiller1376]

"WNEW-TV CHANNEL 5 205 east 67th street new-york-city new-york circa january-1981 what memories of my childhood".

[@johnfenner5550]

Fox 5 is still at that address, but now sharing the facility with WWOR channel 9

[@eddielester3589]

Ed Ladd..Cartoon Playhouse.Never forgot his voice.

[@am74343]

I remember that subway commercial! Been looking for it for a long time! "It's 1950!" Lol! And does anyone else remember when Ed Ladd used to do a quick 5-minute segment at around 5:55 AM in the morning called: "The New Jersey Report"? I want to say it was probably around the 1981-1983 time period.

[@johnfenner5550]

The NJ report was revived in the mid 80s, airing at 2pm, followed by two Popeye cartoons.

[@johnmiller1376]

"channel-5 40 years of fine tuning channel-5 circa-1984 memories are made of this".

[@alexcicala9930]

Oh God. I remember that on tv 😀

[@Kramden429]

Who played that rock version of "Caissons Go Rolling Along" heard in the SSB video? I thought maybe it was the Wing and a Prayer Fife and Drum Corps, who had a big hit with their version of "Baby Face" in early 1976. When this originally aired (I don't think I was up late that particular night), I was 22 and in my junior year of college at Fairleigh Dickinson University in Teaneck, New Jersey (my family and I were living in Saddle River then); little did I realize that four months later my father (may he rest in peace) had the brilliant whim (sarcastically speaking) to move us from our nice home in Saddle River to a shack out in the middle of nowhere in Michigan so he could live out his fantasy of being a hillbilly (my father had contracted cancer in March 1984, however, and couldn't continue his job at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center in New York City; he passed away in January 1992). As for me, I had to *fight hard* to graduate from FDU (I had to go home to the "shack" for the summer of 1985), one way of which was I went to a bank nearby and applied for a student loan, which was *approved* (my father, amazingly, endorsed the idea). My father blithely denied me of graduating from Lansing Catholic High School in Lansing, Michigan in 1980 as he took a job in Chicago in 1978 - instead, I graduated from another Catholic high school in Chicago Heights, Illinois in 1980 which I *despised* - so I made it *quite* plain to my dad he was *not* going to take *this* away from me this time, especially since by then I was so far ahead in my college career. So I got to finish said college career at FDU, despite a stuck-up, bitchy landlady and an a-hole classmate I *didn't* get along well with, and I graduated from FDU on Sunday, June 1, 1986 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Management. In the end, it felt like I *finally earned* everything I worked hard for, and now have a *true* alma mater I can call my own, yet it also felt like everything was *taken away* from me (I had to return to the "shack" in Michigan immediately after; I also had trouble getting my career started, which *finally* took off two years later when I lived and worked in Defiance, Ohio. Now I live in Charlotte, Michigan, which is near Lansing - it feels *great* to be back near where I grew up again!). I *still* miss Jersey, NYC, and FDU, however. And, of course, Channel 5 (as well as WPIX, Channel 11, and WNJU, Channel 47, two other then-independent NYC TV stations I also enjoyed watching)!

[@N3G4T1V3_]

There was a WNEW sign off on YT that began with previews for Parallax View and Alien, then news with Ed Ladd covering Iran among other topics. Does anyone have this? It's been removed from YT for some reason. This was a great sign off hoping to find it.

[@gidzmobug2323]

No NHL scores? The 1984-85 season would have started already.

[@ericsamuelson5656]

I'm a native of East Keansburg, New Jersey and my late father is from South Amboy and Monmouth & Middlesex Counties in New Jersey has very similar neighborhoods what you see in the video as Ch 5 played The National Anthem Flag of Flags and the disco version of Overhill Overdale

[@missiouriplanet27highlandp47]

Thru to Brooklyn New York Continueing

[@johnpastore7685]

I remember this commercial

[@missiouriplanet27highlandp47]

Thru to Missouri Space Spaceman's Continueing 4th Stone's And Niw

[@johnmiller1376]

"WNEW-TV'S LATE-NIGHT NEWS for wednesday january 14,1981 tom-gregory reporting".

[@DLCOrganization]

Wrong video, but good reminder.

[@brandercolque6946]

9:58 Sermonette.

[@missiouriplanet27highlandp47]

Welcome The City Of Missouri New York New York Continueing With Graduates 2002/2/2

[@hilarioph]

If they sign off at 4 a.m. what time do they sign on?

[@missiouriplanet27highlandp47]

They to Missouri Earth Space Space Man

[@lunithecreator3051]

T.S.S.B.