WOR 9 sign-on & news brief 1981

[oldnytv5911]

I really do miss true, local independent stations. We never really fully understood back then how good we had it with channels 5, 9 and 11 in the NY Metro area.

[CelesteK]

The day after my 6th birthday.  :)

[headiero]

Wow, they really took the time.

[wogfun]

@headiero They sure did. I call it, "giving a shit"; something today's class of folks never heard of, a real shame....

[EverywhereWest]

Priceless!

[tightfistedtitans]

this video very tragically epitomizes the bygone era of God and country. It's eerily tragic when the announcer mentions WOR transmitter on top of the World Trade Center. I'm going to cry. BTW, I'm no New Yorker, far from it, but New York is America at its finest.

[gtc1961]

@tightfistedtitans Very true, this was made during the Reagan administration when the nation regained its soul. Sadly it is gone again but it will return!

[Bentom86]

@gtc1961 Hate to break it to you, but it was during the 80s and the Reagan administration when all of the TV stations stopped airing the late night/early morning anthem and religious segments. I don't think he's to blame for that, but he's also not worthy of being praised for their existence.

[gtc1961]

@Bentom86 I wasn't implying that a politician mandated or had the authority to abolish these openings and closings but, during Reagan, the country experienced a new self-worth that lasted for about 10 to 15 years and has since colapsed. There is now way conservatives would have had anything to do with these going off the air...it was, most likely, the result of rediculous anti-religion or anti-patriotic lawsuits that nudged TV stations to abandon these messages. 

[Bentom86]

@gtc1961 I understood your point from the first post, but I do respectfully disagree with the country having a spell of "self-worth" in the Reagan years. I suppose it depends on individual perceptions of that time, but my point was that broadcast outlets decided in those years that the anthem and messages of morality weren't as profitable as all-night infomercials . Dont want to make a political debate of it, but the "Greed is Good" line from the movie Wall Street epitomized the Reagan 80s.

[tightfistedtitans]

this video very tragically epitomizes the bygone era of God and country. It's eerily tragic when the announcer mentions WOR transmitter on top of the World Trade Center. I'm going to cry.

[NowhereMan1966]

@tightfistedtitans - Sigh, me too, I'm with you. I remember watching these WOR sign-ons as well, it was part of our cable channel lineup here in Pittsburgh.

[JHollowayNetwork]

The WOR-TV logo, at the beginning, they continued to use it, until 1983.

[johnissoevil]

Nowadays the studios are at 9 Broadcast Plaza in Secaucus, NJ, with office functions split between the Secaucus location and 205 E 52nd Street in Manhattan along with sister station Fox 5

[momoiunder17]

WOR！

[cnmmnc8852]

Amazing how far television programing has decended.

[kstarpictures]

Interesting thing about this clip is that WOR-TV was already 24/7 by this point, but they still had the courtesy to do a sign-on.

[eekoutasignal]

@kstarpictures I don't think it was so much a "courtesy" as it was "doing everything by the book so the FCC doesn't yank our broadcasting license due to our parent company's malfeasance"

[kstarpictures]

@eekoutasignal True, at this point, RKO General was just months away from losing their first station, WNAC Channel 7 in Boston due to misconduct.

[retroguy1976]

wow channel 9 when this channel was awesome this channel suxs now lol