WNBC Channel 4 - News, Sermonette, & Sign-Off (1980)

Ok, it's not Chicago - it's New York, but I figured we'd all like to see this anyway - I just found it. (And we do have some New York visitors here from time to time) Includes:
WNBC-TV News, Sports & Weather summary with Don Pardo voiceover (can't help but smile a little when I hear him reading serious news)
WNBC-TV4 Editorial (Don Pardo voiceover intro) with Joseph Michaels, Editorial Director of WNBC-TV.
PSA for Census '80 - We're Counting For You! with Edward James Olmos.
Drunk Driving Morgue PSA from the Nassau County Police Department
"Get a Second Opinion" PSA from U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare (with actor Cliff Robertson)
WNBC-TV-New York Station ID (Don Pardo voiceover)
Sermonette with Fr. James L. Tahaney of the Brooklyn Diocese
Spaulding for Children of Westfield, New Jersey - Adoption plea - with voiceover by Fred Facey
PSA for Census '80 - We're Counting For You! with Hattie Carthan, Julio Vigoreaux and Charles Wang
New Jersey Division of Youth and Family Services PSA
WNBC-TV-New York Station Sign-Off with National Association of Broadcasters Television Code Seal of Good Practice (voiceover by Arthur Gary)
National Anthem
Color Bars and Tone
This aired on local New York TV in the early morning hours of Saturday, March 22nd 1980.
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[@reinnegroni8462]

That's Don Pardo who was the voice of "Saturday Night Live". He's real good on WNBC 4 news updates back in 1980.

[@reinnegroni8462]

That was a long time ago. That Kennedy assassination went longer on the news & the whole world tuned into the local news broadcast. New Yorkers was shocked to hear it happened.

[@hollypietrzak5214]

Tom brokaw worked at this network?

[@jareddicarlo7816]

Father Tahaney died in 2004. On a more sinister note, last year, he was included on a list of clergy accused of sexual misconduct.

[@michaelglickman1300]

Wow, it seems Edward James Olmos was already involved with NBC long before he did "Miami Vice."

[@steveprestegard5151]

Castillo is deep undercover here.

[@michaelglickman1300]

@@steveprestegard5151 Very funny.

[@SigHawk04]

Is that the Charles Wang who owned the Isles?

[@eddieloius4592]

9:30 Poltergeist...but no snow

[@altfactor]

TV stations actually once signed off for the night?

[@roybroussard800]

Recorded 40 years ago today! (March 22, 2020)

[@antoniopadilla6802]

The tone is just like at the end of those 1986 Walt Disney Home Video VHS Tapes.

[@daweller]

It's the commentator for SNL!

[@JorgeCat78]

Also known as Don Pardo

[@davidpristupa1629]

I was under the impression the major networks ran through the night in New York.

[@VandelayIndustries61]

No, not until late '80s or early '90s I think.

[@wmbrown6]

As of 1980, only WCBS-TV did so.

[@JohnK086]

~Will you be home tonight at 2am?~ Ben Hooks at the 7:18 mark.

[@luisreyes1963]

When did editorials become irrelevant? Guess they got replaced by late night talk show monologues.

[@CrowTRobot-ni7zu]

I can remember them as late as the late 90s.

[@jb20092009]

Channel 4 used the same National Anthem film since at least 1966.

[@kaseywestbrook8564]

AMEN!

[@krisstarring]

I laugh in Atlantan when New Yorkers say their public transit system is underfunded. Come take a look at MARTA here in Atlanta and be grateful.

[@lavontreyclarke3285]

"The programs broadcast by this station may not be used for any purpose except exhibition at the time of their broadcast on receivers of the type ordinarily used for home reception in places where no admission, cover or mechanical operating charges are made. WNBC TV Channel 4 in New York, a subscriber in good standing to the Television Code Board Washington DC. This concludes our program schedule for the day. Portions of the preceding broadcast day were pre-recorded. For the best in television entertainment, stay with WNBC TV Channel 4 in New York. We'll return to the air tomorrow with more of your favorite programs. This is Arthur Gary wishing you a good night on behalf of Channel 4. And now, our National Anthem."

[@ferociousgumby]

Sheaaah youah keaaaahhs

[@timecrisisyesedcp4928]

WNBC operates from 5AM to 12AM

[@hollypietrzak5214]

Tom brokaw got me here?

[@fromthesidelines]

3:21- Cliff Robertson.

[@steveprestegard5151]

The news brought to you by Rice a Roni, the Dan Francisco Treat.

[@jareddicarlo7816]

Peter Thomas is the announcer at 3:37

[@fromthesidelines]

By the mid-'80s, Wayne Howell had become the "sign-off" announcer.

[@facebook51ify]

Wayne Howell was an announcer for game shows including CONCENTRATION.

[@wmbrown6]

Didn't Mel Brandt handle sign-offs earlier in the 1970's (in the TV 4, "Your Community Minded Station" era), before Arthur Gary (an earlier sign-off of which can be found here): kzbin.info/www/bejne/e5-8fJKhl52plbs And of course, after Mr. Howell came Fred Facey . . .

[@williamwalsh4040]

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[@pauljr.harrington1905]

Robertson died in 2011.

[@jareddicarlo7816]

Here's a link to Fr. Tahaney's obituary: www.legacy.com/obituaries/newsday/obituary.aspx?n=james-l-tahaney&pid=2870769

[@artkingofwholefoods74]

I miss being a kid… the world is a PC bitch now…

[@ChristopherSobieniak]

It has.