WENH-11 NH - Sign-Off 1991

[@RABBIDGamfan]

One really awesome thing about WNEH is that they show all sorts of old programs between 1 AM and 5:30 AM, with no sponsor credits, promos, or even station IDs in between, some of the time! It's like stepping back in a time machine and witnessing PBS's past. In fact, just last month (december 2008), I caught a five episode marathon of Bill Nye the Science Guy! :D

[@BuddyBoy600alt]

R.I.P. Jim Lehrer (1934-2020)

[@gabrielbennett5162]

Wow! I remember this broadcast from almost 30 years ago on KIXE channel 9 out of Redding, CA. My late grandfather used to watch "The MacNeil/Lehrer News Hour" every night and my grandmother kept watching after he passed. If I was lucky, I'd get to stay up and watch "The Star Hustler."

[@AaronGilliland]

Newshour closing credits theme always gives me goosebumps. I wish they still used that version.

[@PGMEagle]

ahhhhh I use to sit up every night and watch Star Hustler when I was a kid and then the station sign off for my PBS station what memories when stations signed off

[@GDelva2003]

I used to hear that MacNeil/Lehrer News Hour theme alot in the '90's!

[@milfordcivic6755]

Ah, the days before PBS ran Dr. Wayne Dyer/Suze Orman infomercials 5 days out the week. I miss those days.

[@ajaugenti1976]

I dig the old New Hampshire Public Television's channel 11 logo instead of the current one.

[@harleyross5422]

A decade exactly from when this aired, I was born

[@tkaye2]

Ah... a decent-length cut of the great Bernard Hoffer "NewsHour" theme. I'd love to hear the original version used during the first several years of the broadcast... according to an interview with Hoffer that's online, it had more of a rock flavor with electric guitar and piano instead of an orchestra.

[@ScoopNemeth]

I have heard that 1983-2007 version of the NewsHour theme from Bernard Hoffer. But I have never heard anything like this (past the 1:55 mark). I love it, love it, love it!!!

[@EricEbac22]

That's because rarely, if ever, did PBS play the full ending music of the "MacNeill-Lehrer News Hour"; a lot of times, you only heard the final 15 seconds of the instrumental, while other times, you only saw a graphic that said "(C) whatever year the broadcast was telecast; all rights reserved" with no music at all.

[@matt89102]

Yeah that was an awesome theme. The old Theme from the 70's is what I'd love to hear again. I remember it was up tempo and had some cool percussion in it also.

[@MrJacMac1968]

First visited New England(NH,ME,MA,VT,CT)back in 1992 when I was 24.Went to see my Aunt who lives in Keene NH.She is originally from GA where I'm from but married and moved there back in 1967.Since then I've traveled to every state except Alaska

[@RickTheGeek]

I remember when this was current! And the WGBH sign on with that music and the slides of the TV shows on back then! :)

[@pbscraze]

That PepsiCo funding made me hungry! My stomach's growling like MAD!

[@bluegenes2273]

Still hungry?

[@emmamma91]

So weird. I was born the day after this aired! Not sure whether I feel old or young...

[@MSTS1]

There was on this video the Pepsico etc. piece (shown) also at the beginning, maybe a couple locals too, but this clip was too long and I needed to shorten it a bit. As is, its running around 9 mins.

[@igobeyontv]

Oh the 90's...How I miss you so!

[@djsi38t]

As a kid i use to love the short programs that were on channel 11 during school hours....they were 15 minutes and sometimes 30 minutes long and were listed as educational programming....I especially remember a woman back in the 70's who was from the science center ....I think it was called ....who would teach about outdoors kinds of things.i cant remember her name.

[@RustyMuck]

Jack Horkheimer's still at it, as energetic as ever. Fortunately, my local PBS member station (WVIZ) carries it every Sunday night.

[@harrisonpolancopolanco9973]

WVIZ From Cleveland

[@Prionic77]

@myronfalwell I've been watching old Jack on our PBS station since I was a child and it's still great to see him after all these years. Too bad the full episode wasn't shown.. Would have been great to see it.

[@will89687]

Cliff Blake (a UNH alum) is still the "voice" of NHPTV today! He started in 1990. A variation of the sign-off music (an original work commissioned by NHPTV, to my knowledge) was also used in this era as their ident.

[@ajaugenti1976]

I agree with you, Cliff Blake had an awesome voice. Did you know that he was on 97.5 WOKQ in the 1990's ?

[@goyadressunofficial]

+ajaugenti Yes, and he was also their Program Director. He's in the record promotion business now, still based in the Granite State. You know he's gotta be a promotions guy with a gaudy shirt like this! www.musicrow.com/2015/09/sony-music-nashville-shifts-cliff-blake-from-arista-to-columbia/

[@ajaugenti1976]

+cat handler Yep, his voice rocked both the TV and radio! BTW, I just saw the shirt you've mentioned about too as well. I think the shirt is not gaudy, it's very nice!

[@NEPatriot]

I remember seeing this sign-off during a visit to Boston. The part about the tech specs of the 3 NHPTV Stations is new to me.

[@thevideogamer2005]

RIP to both Robert MacNeil and Jim Lehrer

[@miguelperez-gb5kr]

5:03 i like that movie ¡it's a wonderful life! (1946) Because that movie is for christmas

[@TimBoyd2012]

KUHT ( Houston) ended its day with the NewsHour and Star Hustler/Gazer, before ending with America the Beautiful

[@newstarcadefan]

Wow...the Star Hustler...now THIS is memories for me before sign off. First on WQED-TV (I got on cable) and WNEO/WEAO (my local PBS station of note)

[@harrisonpolancopolanco9973]

WQED from Pittsburgh & WNEO/WEAO from Alliance/Arkon

[@RWboi]

@@harrisonpolancopolanco9973 Akron*

[@Prionic77]

@Dan1988A @Dan1988A The show's theme song is Isao Tomita's electronic rendition of Claude Debussy's Arabesque No. 1, from Tomita's album Snowflakes Are Dancing. According to the Star Gazer website, this is the most frequently asked question the producers receive, according to wiki. Hope that helps.

[@jamiewillkner8742]

3:35 how could he survive without a spacesuit?

[@PatGleeson123]

Gotta love the Isao Tomita music during 'Star Hustler' :-)

[@Ian16545]

I wonder if anyone's got the funding credits from the NewsHour, involving the PepsiCo plug with someone's hands fiddling around with the logos for each of the company's divisions...

[@disneyfan85]

For a time, thanks to the funding for Pepsico, I was obsessed with Pepsi. Now, I'm more obsessed with Coca-Cola.

[@hollypietrzak5214]

Did they ever use a test pattern when before?

[@Dan1988A]

re 5:17 - 8:53: Beautiful sign-off, MSTS1 - reminds me of the CBC/Radio-Canada sign-offs, to a degree, as well as WSBE-TV's/Rhode Island PBS's old sign-offs. What is the name of the piece of music from 5:43 to 7:55, by the way? It's very beautiful.

[@MSTS1]

@Dan1988A - Sorry, I don't know the name of it; only heard it here..

[@NewmarketChannel8]

Can someone please explain to me why I can't the HD channel for NHPTV especially where I live next door to Durham?? Comcast doesn't carry it up here, but back home in Gloucester I could get NHPTV's HD signal but not WGBH-HD. I also pulled in the CBC french feed. Am I missing something???

[@silvereagle2061]

RIP Jack Horkheimer

[@Dan1988A]

@NMNHTV13 You're not the only one with that problem. Here in Pawtucket, thanks to the digital TV transition, I can sporadically get WGBH-TV and WSBE-TV (aka Rhode Island PBS), but not WGBX-TV (then again, CBC/Radio-Canada is not offered at all in RI, neither from Montréal, Ottawa, or Toronto). Then again, I do use an indoor amplified antenna when in my area I should be using an outside rooftop antenna instead, so it may be a factor.

[@OddSerendipity]

Hey, I used to get this channel! Weird seeing the old logo when in the 2000s (when I watched it) it was updated. Also that CPB funding screen...man, this is full of nostalgia! Also who's that VO announcing the Friday lineup? I know he was the VO throughout the 2000s, probably still is, but I don't know who it is.

[@knicksfan89]

this day was my 7th birthday

[@imal25]

THURSDAY DECEMBER 12,1991.

[@rocray]

What is the music piece at 5:43 called? I've been trying to figure it out for 20 years.

[@zuludawn9932]

The opening theme to phantasy star 3

[@BuddyBoy600alt]

@@zuludawn9932 WRONG! It is not from Phantasy Star 3.

[@thelegendfamily4836]

@Prionic77: RIP Jack, ye will be missed.

[@thetoolbox112394]

Nice music!

[@BuddyBoy600]

That was great. But now that NHPTV's New logo is the two dots on the N and H.

[@harrisonpolancopolanco9973]

But now NHPBS!

[@17z483]

New Hampshire Public Media - Closedown 2007

[@momoiunder17]

3:42 ローカル58のSky Watching の元ネタですね。フォントが酷似しています。音楽は冨田勲氏の作品ですね。

[@Metlhd313]

Got any clips of New Hampshire Crossroads?

[@TimBoyd2012]

Pop quiz time: Why was Star Hustler renamed Star Gazer?

[@goyadressunofficial]

+TimBoyd2012 Because kids were visiting Larry Flynt, another kind of "hustler."

[@TimBoyd2012]

+cat handler Exactaroonie!

[@LJPCBM]

Awesome video! May you Please upload full episodes of the MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour for me please? But Without your logo in it!

[@NikitaFilatovFan3040]

I thought so too.

[@ItzJaxsonoki94793]

5:43

[@Videoloverfan2011]

Pepsis Rocks!

[@TheVagolfer]

Let me answer....your young. one day you'll realize that.

[@sillygoose635]

I'll answer that too, you're old. one day you'll realize that.

[@saraflint2982]

Hi. My comment was posted 1 year ago and has 1 up-vote. This has to be my new account.

[@alyssamurray6306]

You're young.

[@sillygoose635]

you're old.