WNET (PBS - Newark, NJ) Station Breaks & Sign Off (Summer 1980)

Found at the end of an old VHS tape. Here are the station breaks from before and after the Dick Cavett Show, plus a (disappointingly) brief sign-off.
If the other contents of this tape were anything to go by, I'd say this aired in either July or August of 1980.
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[@5roundsrapid263]

“All your life is channel thirteen, Sesame Street, what does it mean?”

[@RickinBaltimore]

I'll tell you what it means...PRESSURE

[@ChristopherSobieniak]

@@RickinBaltimore Nice! Love that tune!

[@ChuckD79]

@@ChristopherSobieniak - One of my favorites as well!

[@Wildcock23]

🤘

[@3hooks781]

Underrated Billy tune!!!!

[@ChristopherSobieniak]

I get this idea WNET really loved presentation, the way they did their announcements here.

[@marcdavis82280]

I looked up the Dyan Cannon episode. It aired August 22nd 1980. That was the day I was born!!!

[@jamieschmidt939]

This is from Fri/ 8/22/80.

[@marcdavis82280]

Day I was born.

[@ZachHighwind]

Never knew Martin Mull slummed around public television

[@ChristopherSobieniak]

Either that or someone at WNET really loved America 2 Night and wanted to rerun it and asked Mr. Mull for this voiceover.

[@Wildcock23]

Lmao!

[@5roundsrapid263]

Hey, they keep talking over the PBS ID sound. I want to hear the synthesizer go “Wooooooo...boop boop boop ba boop”!

[@ChristopherSobieniak]

Probably was a thing WNET liked to do back then.

[@ChristopherSobieniak]

@Curtis J. Livingston, III Given the NY market, I don't doubt they loved giving it that personal touch other stations weren't doing.

[@JHollowayNetwork]

@@ChristopherSobieniak It was the flagship station of PBS.

[@WoodyTheWoodpecker41]

Just Like Betty Boop!

[@johnnyballenatl]

@@JHollowayNetwork PBS has no flagship station; it’s a joint venture of its member stations and statewide networks all over the country.

[@SatsukiVM]

2:25 The MGM logo!

[@SMITPGG1997]

Great Classic PBS Station Breaks And Sign Offs. 😀

[@Damaniel3]

Thanks for preserving this!

[@OsagieGuobadia]

I did not know that WNET Thirteen airs the Dick Cavett Show in the 1980s. : 0

[@TheKinoEye]

Was there a SATURDAY MORNING sign on (circa 1978-1981) that was about 15 minutes long, which featured MUZAK? One of the tunes was a rendition of "By The Time I Get To Phoenix."

[@stevieg7672]

Wow something from my area! How fun!

[@chops1976]

1:56 Now that's the Dick Cavett Show I vaguely remember from my early childhood.

[@Ian16545]

Brad Abelle? Say, isn't he the announcer for Michael Strahan's version of _The $100,000 Pyramid?_

[@ChuckD79]

Didn't even know Ch. 13 aired reruns of America 2Night...then again, Miami's WPBT likewise aired reruns of St. Elsewhere weekday afternoons during the early/mid-90s.

[@ChristopherSobieniak]

I suppose some stations like to add in some unconventional variety when possible. My PBS station used to show the syndicated "Wonderful World of Disney" program in the late 80's. I recall it being ran without ad breaks!

[@johnnyballenatl]

@@ChristopherSobieniak And at one point in the ‘80s, WYES (New Orleans) aired SCTV reruns while I remember KAET (Phoenix) running Movietone News and even The Untouchables! Heck, KUAC (Fairbanks) or KAKM (Anchorage, both in Alaska) could’ve ran Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman around that time if they wanted to! (Hey, isn’t that the old NET In Color slide at 2:34?)

[@ChristopherSobieniak]

@@johnnyballenatl Interesting if true. I suppose WNET thought it was fine since it just said "Tomorrow" and didn't think it looked dated.

[@johnnyballenatl]

Oh, and the aforementioned KAET in Phoenix was one of the very few PBS stations that were part of the ad-hoc Mobil Showcase Network during that time along with the affiliates and independents (it was like Operation Prime Time, but with more class); they even aired CNN’s Crossfire.

[@johnnyballenatl]

Also during the ‘80s, KCTS in Seattle even ran a first-run syndicated show: *Fight Back! with David Horowitz* (simply because KING, KIRO, KOMO, etc. couldn’t find room for it on their schedules)!

[@Jaxsonoki89503]

August 22-23, 1980

[@jamiewillkner8742]

What was that jaunty music in the beginning? A White Mountain Film?

[@Moviescope715]

From Pumping Iron (1977).

[@tuckercfoxito9866]

Missed the synthesizer theme music accompanying the head & initials. I don't like to appear ungrateful for your preservation efforts, but that's quite an oversight.

[@delmontoon]

Chubb *snicker*

[@syxepop]

The CHUBB-y insurance company... Yes, they have been sponsoring Public Television for a long time.

[@dereckabackus8281]

On April 6, 1970 PBS debuts

[@pauljr.harrington1905]

It’s surprising that Dick Cavett is still alive today, considering this was from 39 years ago. You wanna know what’s also surprising? The lack of a national anthem. It just went to static.

[@ChristopherSobieniak]

Public TV stations didn't seem to need to do the SSB like commercial stations had though it could vary from station to station.

[@murrynathan]

I wanna join the Chubb Group!