(I was interning at American Data at the time. One of their sales people had been up there just hours before the fire, trying to sell them stuff. We all kidded him the next day: "You didn't have to burn them down just because they didn't order anything!")
IIRC, they re-did the control room shots after NBC dropped the "cut N" logo in 1979. They did a signoff that showed clips of a lot more of the studio equipment; I distinctly recall a VTR drum. They used that signoff until the old station building on Monte Sano burned down in 1983.
loves me some good control-room porn -- especially since they were cutting it live on that, what, GVG 1600-3H? And a board with *knobs*. Wow. Nice. Thanks.
@banther1972 I do and I'm 18. Trouble is, sign offs meant '"go to bed". Nowadays, tv is on 24/7 so anyone can watch at anytime of the day or night...even if it's nothing but crap.
yep, the last time I saw a sign off was when I was stationed in Germany in the early 1990's and the Germans still didn't have 24 hour TV. It was the same schtick as here, prayer, station info and so on, except because this was Bavaria, they played THREE anthems, the EU "Ode to Joy" theme from Beethoven, the Bavarian state anthem and then the German national anthem and then white noise. Even then it was nostalgic since this had died out in the US for the most part by then.
@kyuss@kyuss Well, the technology then was pretty simple, they had an IBM (No Windows in '79!) computer and it can be used not only in the house but at your workplace. This station and its affiliate, NBC, used many IBM computers for logos and graphics. They were also tested briefly on MS-DOS before use of IBM in 1975. (Does it sound obvious to you?)
Just watched this and showed it to my 19 year old daughter, she thought it was adorable the way the TV station THANKED you for tuning in..... in her words, oh, BEFORE TV stations thought the world revolved around them.
(I was interning at American Data at the time. One of their sales people had been up there just hours before the fire, trying to sell them stuff. We all kidded him the next day: "You didn't have to burn them down just because they didn't order anything!")
DaveCornutt 4 months ago
IIRC, they re-did the control room shots after NBC dropped the "cut N" logo in 1979. They did a signoff that showed clips of a lot more of the studio equipment; I distinctly recall a VTR drum. They used that signoff until the old station building on Monte Sano burned down in 1983.
DaveCornutt 4 months ago
Original air date?
JesseL85719 4 months ago
Just a year or so after they switched from ABC eh?
WillHear432 7 months ago
@TheIncredibleKev It certainly is, then Danny Dark took over in the early 1980s voicing over NBC programming promos.
mrceleb2006 1 year ago
loves me some good control-room porn -- especially since they were cutting it live on that, what, GVG 1600-3H? And a board with *knobs*. Wow. Nice. Thanks.
utubesnamepolsux 1 year ago
@banther1972 I do and I'm 18. Trouble is, sign offs meant '"go to bed". Nowadays, tv is on 24/7 so anyone can watch at anytime of the day or night...even if it's nothing but crap.
KaleunMaender77 1 year ago
yep, the last time I saw a sign off was when I was stationed in Germany in the early 1990's and the Germans still didn't have 24 hour TV. It was the same schtick as here, prayer, station info and so on, except because this was Bavaria, they played THREE anthems, the EU "Ode to Joy" theme from Beethoven, the Bavarian state anthem and then the German national anthem and then white noise. Even then it was nostalgic since this had died out in the US for the most part by then.
ryoushii 1 year ago
@banther1972 I was 6, and I remember this, weird. My 3 and 6 year old kids will never know.
bgatesdie 1 year ago
Great mini sermon from Michael Guido! Amen
treemonisha2006 1 year ago
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@kyuss @kyuss Well, the technology then was pretty simple, they had an IBM (No Windows in '79!) computer and it can be used not only in the house but at your workplace. This station and its affiliate, NBC, used many IBM computers for logos and graphics. They were also tested briefly on MS-DOS before use of IBM in 1975. (Does it sound obvious to you?)
JesseL85719 4 months ago
I was half expecting the Aflac duck to show up when the announcer mentioned that they owned the station...
ddavenport 1 year ago
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Comwhiz2002 1 year ago
@ddavenport the AFLAC duck was not introduced until 2000, several years after the company sold WAFF-TV 48
Comwhiz2002 1 year ago
@2:43 Any ideas what song it is?
cinoche 2 years ago
wow he doesn't look too different than he did before he died
nightskull23 2 years ago
Wow Kasey Kasem doing the voice over on the promos
PGMEagle 2 years ago
Just watched this and showed it to my 19 year old daughter, she thought it was adorable the way the TV station THANKED you for tuning in..... in her words, oh, BEFORE TV stations thought the world revolved around them.
CWmoviemom 2 years ago 4