TV Station Sign Offs from the 1980s

[@dianastandefer3172]

Finally, a high-quality WHP-TV sign off!

[@mikemercer2394]

Yay!

[@Foxonian]

Some of these sign offs from CT are from the 1970's. WATR Ch. 20 in Waterbury would later become WTXX when it became independent. CPTV sold its Ch. 61 frequency to Arch Communications Corp. in the early 80's which then used it to start WTIC as an independent (later FOX) station.

[@luisreyes1963]

Thanks for the shout out to Chicago's WGN-TV! 📺

[@mikemercer2394]

Start with the voices of Gary Geers KYW-Mike Warren WTNH Paul Norton WPVI Floyd Hap Richards WFSB Dana Hersey WSBK Art Lake WJAR & so on!

[@NEPatriot]

And the distinct William Pierce on WGBX

[@kevin62387]

Mike Warren & Hap Richards both hosted live children's shows. Great to hear Dana Hersey too! Thanks for showing all the CT stations, I liked hearing WVIT's 2 translator stations, back in the day that was the only way to get a UHF signal into other areas.

[@armorybrunotjr.3204]

Dana Hersey waa a staff announcer at WJZ-TV in Baltimore.

[@allankelly2500]

Van Halen - Hot For Teacher... That's.....A...Different sign-off

[@krisstarring]

Not quite as "different" as "Peaches En Regalia" by Frank Zappa capping off WCVX-TV 58 of Vineyard Haven, MA! kzbin.info/www/bejne/o5CvfXmZhN5pmKM

[@luisreyes1963]

Must have forgotten to use it for the end of their "Adults Only" Subscription TV broadcast. 🔞

[@joshuagalka3526]

And finally One from WGN TV In Chicago!

[@luisreyes1963]

Chicago Represent!! 😄

[@bwc1976]

I love that Eurostile font, I wish more stations still used it.

[@gidzmobug2323]

Which one is in Eurostile font?

[@bwc1976]

@@gidzmobug2323 5:18 through 5:46, and 6:55 through 7:18

[@krisstarring]

15:12 - "Peaches En Regalia" by Frank Zappa on a signoff!

[@MeowCockadoodledoo]

Why did they read out the frequencies and power usage for the transmitter?

[@gidzmobug2323]

Not every station does that. Some are just more like, "end of broadcast day, good night!"

[@joshuagalka3526]

Oh, and Don't forget KTTU In Fairbanks!

[@BelindaWoodson-uc5is]

When your tv begain to (FRY) to inform you iIT ñeed rest !

[@julianpulido1]

Do KPRC TV in Houston and WNBC TV in New York please.

[@walterreyesproductions]

Nice video 👍. At least I got to see a WVIT sign off from before 1984, that sign off is my favorite. By the way, do you happen to have sign off videos from either WXTV or WNJU-TV from the same era as the first few sign offs at the beginning of the video? Just wondering.

[@DELLTelevision]

Sorry I do not. These stations were local to me, and I waited for them to go off the air so that I could receive stations broadcasting from out of my area which were using the same channel. I recorded these sign-off's back in the day as proof I was able to receive these stations over an antenna from the NYC area.

[@walterreyesproductions]

Oh, ok. That's fine. Again, I was only wondering. But still, nice compilation you did.

[@kevin62387]

I got cable in 1978 and when I came home from school WXTV would sign on at 3:00 pm and I would watch it because I was talking Spanish in high school. I still remember some of the sign-on.

[@walterreyesproductions]

@@kevin62387 Interesting story. Thanks for sharing it.

[@Doncolorado]

Seal of good practice. Long gone these day's.

[@gidzmobug2323]

Suspended by a federal judge on First Amendment grounds in 1976. Finally abolished in 1983.

[@NYfan2004]

0:37 DUDE A DIFFERENT WTNH SIGN OFF!!! I reuploaded the one from 1982 btw

[@HarenchiFairy]

16:56 What A Funky WHMM ident

[@HarenchiFairy]

What year?

[@terrenceh77]

Where’s MCTV CTV signs on & off 1980’s

[@damiboi5119]

Never expect them to put everything you know

[@joshuagalka3526]

And Another from Alaska, KIMO

[@joshuagalka3526]

I see one from Alaska, KTVF

[@HarenchiFairy]

Do WSOC sign off

[@joshuagalka3526]

Cool!

[@lovign749]

12:32 "Good morning. Nice to have you still with us as we continue with the All Night Mov-" "-frequency of 700.76 to 700.82 megahertz." I guess we aren't with WYAH-TV 27 anymore.

[@NEPatriot]

Where did some of these sign-offs come from?

[@DELLTelevision]

Vermont, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, DC, Virginia. All received by me back in the 80's from an outdoor antenna. My location at the time was NJ about 12 miles west of NYC.

[@NEPatriot]

@@DELLTelevision Despite there being CT's stations, including both channel 20's, the one from WJAR in Providence is my favorite of the bunch...1) It has the late great Art Lake doing the announcement and almost like Columbia, SC's WIS-TV [also on ch.10] and 2) the way that "10" was like a chroma key when the national anthem film came up. Ironically, it's one that WLNE channel 6 would use in the later 80's. By the way...got any more?

[@mr.g-manofficial6391]

@@NEPatriot And it has the Seal of Good Practice logo in it, too!!!

[@DELLTelevision]

These were recorded back when the VCR was first introduced. I do have some others on Reel to Reel Video from 1976 - 1977. Trying to get these copied to a format I can post on KZbin.

[@DELLTelevision]

Yeah what ever happened to the "Television Seal of Good Practice" :)

[@robinsarmiento9473]

Wtza Sign Off

[@AngieMarie985]

While I respect the sign offs… some of these are of low quality. Couldn’t they have found better ones to show us??

[@DELLTelevision]

I wish. These were all received from the New York Metropolitain area by antenna. Most of these channels are outside of the normal NY viewing area and were received only because the atmospheric conditions were good that night.

[@AngieMarie985]

@@DELLTelevision apologies. I forgot about that. Were some of these found using DX’ing?

[@vinsoriano1536]

@@DELLTelevisionyes in NYC here when Channel 7 went off we’d get WPEN from Philly.

[@DELLTelevision]

Yes, absolutely

[@oddjobz9858]

TV38 Dana!