WPIX Signon - July '93

[naganofan1]

this is my birthday 7/5/93

[CelesteK]

Not anymore it doesn't.

[soneyo]

The best Signon from July 1993.

[nikkotg13]

what tower of the world trade center did it transmit from

[oreochick24]

The North Tower. The one with the antenna.

[garrisonskunk]

I have a few of these on tapes I made in the early 90s. WPIX wouldn't actually sign-off, they'd have something like a rerun of "Trapper John, MD" air from 5AM - 6AM, air this, then air something like "Farm Report" or "Siskel and Ebert" at 6AM

[JMFabianoRPL]

Can Ralph sound less enthusiastic?

[asnycnow15]

back then,every station [including WPIX,WNYW,WWOR] had their transmitter @WTC untill 2000,2001[before 9/11]when WABC,WNBC,[WWOR,WPXN,WNET,WLIW etc...]moved theirs to the empire state building ,when the towers came down some stations lost 1/2 of their signal....

[jmar1973]

Wow..

From the days when channels actually used to sign off!

The first thing I'd see after a summertime all nighter of Atari,or I guess in this case Super Nintendo,LOL..

[CelesteK]

It doesn't transmit from the World Trade Center anymore. At least not now it doesn't.

I hope that they can transmit from atop the Peace Tower whenever those bozos in power get the Peace Tower built.

[MadScout]

I don't the Peace Tower will be transmitting anything when it erected in 2011 because broadcast TV stations are going fully digital. Unless you have a digital TV or digital receiver by Feb 2009, you're screwed when watching TV.

[HomeoftheGoodGuys]

At last, TVnewsman has unleashed a video of the WPIX-TV sign-on from 1983, that was 10 years before the same sign-on was made in 1993. Watch it!

[HomeoftheGoodGuys]

I hope tvnewsman hasn't seen this one before.

[tvnutboy]

Remind me, who's the deeper voiced guy doing the ID after the disclaimer?

[wmbrown6]

Why, Jim Cutler, of course.

[tvnutboy]

Really? Because On other clips, they say a guy named Doug Paul did that particular ID and also that Cutler is doing them currently.

[wmbrown6]

Thanks for clearing that up. I read somewhere that Mr. Paul joined 'PIX' announcing staff around 1986 - how long was he there? (That plus Mr. Cutler first being heard on 'PIX around '98 - again from what I've read.)

[HomeoftheGoodGuys]

Jim Cutler was also a voiceover announcer for WPIX-TV doing promos for upcoming movies and TV shows. I missed the days when Ralph Lowenstein and Bill Biery doing their promos during the heyday of "11 Alive". I've seen those since I was a kid. Ralph and Bill are good long-time friends.

[HomeoftheGoodGuys]

By the way Jim Cutler was doing promos for WPIX-TV from 1986 until he left the station in around 1995 or 1996 after the WB Network (now CW) was launched back in early 1995. Jim was also doing promos for movies and TV shows since he joined PAX in 1997 or 1998 until he left around 2000 or 2001. Jim Cutler was another great guy at WPIX-TV.

[FamilyGuyFan2007]

The CW Television Network (then WB) was launched about 12 years ago.

[SuperAdventures]

Few if ant NYC stations do sign on/offs anyone don't they??? I know WPIX doesn't, as they run through the night with either old sitcom re-runs of paid programming, the mortal enemy of sign on/offs. :) Thanks to infomercials the art of sign on/offs is dying. Nice early '90's WPIX ID too. WAs this recorded off of antenna, I can kinda figure by the shaky picture. Thanks!

[bostonnewsarchives]

Actually, I should have mentioned that WPIX didn't sign off prior to this "sign on".  This aired at/around midnight in the middle of a Twilight Zone marathon. And this was recorded from cable, not off air. The shaky picture is most likely from the quality of the tape which is now 13+ years old. Thanks for your comment!

[JMFabiano524]

Usually, they also aired just before 6 am on weekdays as well.

[repcon82]

The only station in NYC that still signs off is WNET channel 13 on Monday mornings at 3AM and goes back on the air around 5AM.

[JMFabiano524]

I distinctly remember a version by Bill Biery...and what's more, it was used sometime in the '90s! As for Ralph, he was quoted in an article looking back at TV PIXXX, but I have to double check when that was published.

[JMFabiano524]

Sure enough, said article comes from 2002, so he was still around at least then.

[wmbrown6]

And as to the station's now transmitting from Empire: It had also done so, I.I.N.M., before 1979 when every station, it seemed, switched to WTC.

[ProductionX]

They should stay there too!

[HulkieD]

An early signon/signoff and one of the last announcements from legendary station announcer Ralph Lowenstein...

[wmbrown6]

Wonder if older sign-on/offs with the station's other famous announcer, Bill Biery, exist . . . ?

[HomeoftheGoodGuys]

Look for Bill Biery's version of the WPIX-TV sign-on from 1983. It's from TVnewsman.

[NEPatriot]

Yeah, sounds like Mr. Lowenstein lost some of the energy he packed into his announcements. I assume he is no longer here on Earth. In other words, anyone know when he passed on?

[bostonnewsarchives]

Nope, Ralph is still alive and well. He is now a senior vice president with Bellmarc Realty in NYC.

[wmbrown6]

Moreover, wasn't it in fact Bill Biery who'd passed on? I seem to remember, reading from a New Orleans radio & TV tribute site (where he got started) that that was the case . . .