Wow....this definately made my nights during summers, some without cable. I still liked to had seen the WKBN sign-off in 1992. If i remember that one, there was a jobs bulletin board, the nightly prayer, and the sign-off news with Tom Holden, or a substitute reading it.
This reminds me so much of childhood when I would have to jump up in the middle of the night after falling asleep in my room with the TV on. You had to hurry and cut off the TV before the static blew the speakers out of your TV after the Star Spangled Banner. Does anyone have that EBS screen WKBN used to use in the 80's with the scary painting?
Lol yes! The old tornado/lightning bolt/palm tree mural thingy w/the weathervane in the middle...was that not just the freakiest thing you've ever seen in your life?!
As well as KHQ in Spokane, WA and KLCS in Los Angeles, CA. And as to the Army Band SSB music itself, two different stations - KTHI (now KVLY) in Fargo/Grand Forks, ND and WPIX in New York did their own respective videos - in the case of WPIX, a loop of a flag flying outside, done in the manner of the looped fireplace in "The Yule Log."
Thanks for posting. Do you have any other signoffs from Youngstown and/or from around the US that aren't posted on YouTube already? If so, can you post them? Thanks.
WETA DID use that film--I remember visiting DC in 1989. I had a mini-TV with me in my hotel room. And I caught WETA signing off. The SSB film used...THAT ONE!
The U.S. Army Band "SSB" sequence as shown after the sign-off, is exactly as was seen during sign-on and sign-off by WNBC-TV in New York from c.late 1960's through the mid-1980's. Possibly WETA in Washington, DC too, from what I've been told. Anyone know of other stations that used this particular "SSB" film?
Wow....this definately made my nights during summers, some without cable. I still liked to had seen the WKBN sign-off in 1992. If i remember that one, there was a jobs bulletin board, the nightly prayer, and the sign-off news with Tom Holden, or a substitute reading it.
newstarcadefan 10 months ago
Wow, The Jenny Jones Show was less trashy in those days. Of course, that was the main problem with the early days of the show.
FutureNewsAnchor 1 year ago
The V/O at the end of the Jenny Jones promo is former WFMJ-TV-21 staff announcer Doug James, who is now the AM drive-time host on WQXK-FM "K-105."
FutureNewsAnchor 2 years ago
1:29 = Carlton Banks
DinkCincinnati 2 years ago
This reminds me so much of childhood when I would have to jump up in the middle of the night after falling asleep in my room with the TV on. You had to hurry and cut off the TV before the static blew the speakers out of your TV after the Star Spangled Banner. Does anyone have that EBS screen WKBN used to use in the 80's with the scary painting?
mrjfrostbite 3 years ago
You mean the one w/the three panels and the weathervane in the middle LOL? Or the blue background with the 3 "eggs"
sergio9603 3 years ago
that's the one with the weathervain. That thing scared me every time when I was a kid.
mrjfrostbite 3 years ago
Lol yes! The old tornado/lightning bolt/palm tree mural thingy w/the weathervane in the middle...was that not just the freakiest thing you've ever seen in your life?!
sergio9603 3 years ago
WFMJ had the worst EBS graphics in those days though, man they were horrifying haha!
sergio9603 3 years ago
Unfortunately, the city of Youngstown signed off in the late 70s...
thallthallthall 4 years ago 3
That's a good one . . . I should remember that . . .
wmbrown6 3 years ago
Does any station sign off anymore?
jb55236 4 years ago 2
Boardman & Phelps in downtown Y-Town...I've been there. Good find.
SpecialTVOffer 4 years ago
Hey, WJLA in Washington used that SSB in the 70s and early 80s. So did WITN in Greenville, North Carolina, at sign-on time.
tam0165 4 years ago
WJLA in the 70's? Before 1976 weren't they called WMAL-TV?
NEPatriot 4 years ago
Yes they were, as a matter of fact.
tam0165 4 years ago
As well as KHQ in Spokane, WA and KLCS in Los Angeles, CA. And as to the Army Band SSB music itself, two different stations - KTHI (now KVLY) in Fargo/Grand Forks, ND and WPIX in New York did their own respective videos - in the case of WPIX, a loop of a flag flying outside, done in the manner of the looped fireplace in "The Yule Log."
wmbrown6 4 years ago
And also another: WNAC-TV in Boston, right up to the point of its final sign-off in the early morning hours of May 22, 1982.
wmbrown6 4 years ago
I think maybe WBAL-TV Baltimore used this.
NEPatriot 4 years ago
Thanks for posting. Do you have any other signoffs from Youngstown and/or from around the US that aren't posted on YouTube already? If so, can you post them? Thanks.
gjc 4 years ago
Thanks for confirming. Anyone else besides WNBC and WETA?
wmbrown6 4 years ago
WETA DID use that film--I remember visiting DC in 1989. I had a mini-TV with me in my hotel room. And I caught WETA signing off. The SSB film used...THAT ONE!
NEPatriot 4 years ago
The U.S. Army Band "SSB" sequence as shown after the sign-off, is exactly as was seen during sign-on and sign-off by WNBC-TV in New York from c.late 1960's through the mid-1980's. Possibly WETA in Washington, DC too, from what I've been told. Anyone know of other stations that used this particular "SSB" film?
wmbrown6 4 years ago