Main Page Updated Saturday, 19 July 2008
This site is devoted to the memory of a bygone era in American broadcasting when all TV stations' programming ended at the conclusion of Johnny Carson's Tonight Show or The Late Movie. This site will be featuring authentic recordings of U.S. television stations ending their broadcast day with the playing of the Star Spangled Banner (SSB), America The Beautiful (ATB) or some other patriotic piece before cutting the juice or going to a test pattern. With very few exceptions, all U.S. TV stations now operate 24 hours a day, seven days a week, filling their overnight schedules with home shopping fare, all-night network news, movies and daytime talk-show reruns.
The site is still a work in progress. However, I currently have a number of pages finished and ready for viewing. The links to these are below. To view these streaming video clips, you will need at least a basic Broadband Internet connection (DSL/cable/WiFi), unless you are a dial-up user with an extraordinary amount of patience.
Thank you all very much for viewing my website. Any comments or suggestions are welcome.
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| WAAP-TV 16 (now WGPX) Snow Camp/Burlington NC Sign-Off - June 1993 The current ION network station in the Piedmont Triad area was known as all-Christian WRDG-TV in the 1980s. By this time of this clip the station had become a "family-friendly" entertainment-oriented indie, though it still carried a number of the former station's religious programs. No announcer is heard, only a montage of vintage U.S. Coast Guard images accompanied by the Coast Guard's theme song, Semper Paratus. This is the only TV station sign-off clip I've seen that honors the Coast Guard. Whether WAAP-TV or the Coast Guard itself put together the montage is not known. My thanks to John Willis, publisher of the Coast Guard News for e-mailing me the information. To view more clips from the Webmaster's area, go here! |
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NOTE: The video files featured on this website are taken from my VHS home recordings of over-the-air and cable video captures, and from clips contributed by others. The quality varies from clip to clip, due to TV reception and recording issues. None of the clips that are featured here have been authorized by the various television stations, networks or any other entity.
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