Family Sign-Off (1999)

[TJCWilliams93]

Haha, I remember this. xD

[fetchy15]

There was this show on Family Channel in the late 90's (I don't know if it was a show or just short series) but it always involved this guy who would make these huge outdoor images with everyday things like blankets and stuff. Then the camera would zoom overhead and show the picture. One of them was a tiger. Anybody know what I'm talking about?

[RetroWinnipeg]

@fetchy15 I believe that was called "Art Attack".

[xoxoprincessxoxo1000]

I was born in 1999. lol. I wish I saw this sign.

[spongebobcrazy24]

ahh, i remember when i was young, i would sneak downstairs when my parents were in bed, turn on the tv to family channel, turned the volume really low, watch an episode of the spiderman cartoon, then see this and then the blackness. and after a few minutes the colour bars would appear. Good times.

[MrLennon1966]

they still play this at 1:00ish and the sign on too at 3:00 after life with derek

[MJandST2926]

I have an old movie recording with some old Family stuff on it. It's so different now...

[OmagaMinion]

memorys

[Fragglevision]

@sincerelywithlove That's right. I actually got SIRE (an acronym coined by us Muppet fans for "Sudden Instant Recall Effect") from just watching this and also the 1997 sign-on. Not of the sign-on and sign-off themselves, but the Family bumpers that aired around the same time they were used.

[Fragglevision]

@Fragglevision Whoops, meant to say 1999, not 1997.

[Grannyquickster]

wow shits changed around here

[chef123]

they need to bring this back :(

[khylester]

i thought familyhas a sign-off and is family channel now a 24 hour channel and what hoursdoes family brodcast in that time

[citytvman]

I remember back in 2003 in the summer i would watch your big break and this would come on and after the colured bars would show up on the screen .... good times !!

[kennlegirl]

haha me and my friends brother used to stay up till 12 just to see that but like in 2000 sumin

[daamits]

Family is shutting down on December 31. Their final sign-off video will be similar to that of The WB.

[brandon2003alt]

@daamits sorry. but no. family will never and ever shut down.

[ShOcKwAvEzZ121]

oh man! brings back so many memories

like I remember one summer I used to stay up and watch Mentors then the old Spider man!

i kinda miss it!

[Sabrina7722772]

what happened after this sign off? i mean what was on that channel was it just blank?

[CryKoda]

Yup. The channel use to turn off completely. Now it runs all the time. It was just the colours and that loud beeping sound.

[vfreeck]

But now, they just show informercials or christian programs late at night.

[JonasBrotherlover32]

i remember that wow thats old xD

[Omondii]

NOw it's 24 hours, but man...that signoff was annoying, yet relaxing.

[matosa11]

yea i remember they used to play this and i used to get so pissed cause i wanted to keep watching shows but now they are on all the time YAY!!!

[brandon2003alt]

@matosa11 family channel in 2011. changed.

[brandon2003alt]

@matosa11 and now this in 2011. after some episode. it would go to disney junior

[Rayanne95]

omg how'd u get that?? I've been trying 2 find the family channel vids 4 so long!

[ducky1232]

I noticed if you squeeze family's logo and put it above ABC family's logo, they look exactly the same!

[theatregirl9]

i miss when family was like that all the time, like in between shows. the new ones aren't that great. i liked the pinball one.

[ExcellentFriends]

whenever I see this it makes me feel really uncomfortable for some reason

[jerrymouse16]

Are They 24/7 Now?

[Kzone100]

Nope

[KosherCat]

Yeah, they are.

[ducky1232]

Woah! 24 hour broadcasting!? noo its just like what happened with disney... oh yea and these are pretty good graphics for 1999

[RonicW]

UPDATE: I have been watching Family this early morning, and as of 4:42AM ADT, on July 2, 2007, Family now appears to be running a 24/7 broadcast schedule.

So it looks as if this sign-off sequence has now been consigned to the dustbin of Canadian TV history, in addition to it's sign-on counterpart. :(

[Certified1983]

Uh actually fyi, the logo's are still being used. If your awake or if you have both family channel's (East and West) you could see the logo when they make the transition from teenage programs to younger kids, so from probably Life With Derek to Katie and Orbie or whatever comes on after Life With Derek.

[superslinger2007]

Hmm. Well, I sometimes watch the old Spider-Man cartoon on Family Channel and then end up watching this. (Because they start up the day with the Spider-Man show and end the day with it too.) Well, after this sign-off, they have a blank gap that either takes a long or short time and then they put up the color bars.

[Certified1983]

I liked it better when family was like this. Even though there's not much of a difference, when the 1999 makeover happened, the bumpers looked better, now it's filled with these random annoying kids who think there cool.

[TServo2049]

Why is it that Family's look greatly resembles the last look of Fox Family from around 2000-01, even though Fox didn't own Family Canada?

[ducky1232]

woot FAMILY rox :P

[meatwadfan1111]

is this off a VHS or a recent replay?

[wb8976]

What do they display after the sign off announcement? Color bars or something?

[Certified1983]

Yeah they show those coloured bars and that annoying constant noise.

[pokemom]

o yeah i rember this sing off thing

[heine71]

This is the Canadian Family Channel, no relation to the American ABC Family.