WTOP-TV 9 (now WUSA) Sign-Off 1964 Re-creation

[letticiarsd898]

I miss the sign-offs and the sign-ons now that there's programming 24/7.

[dan1701a]

I like the little bit of rolling interference you put in. Looks quite authentic!

[chip64c]

Maybe the 96.13 was for Ham Radio stuff...kidding

[MegaJustGeorge]

This is not bad - a "lost artifact" from the days when television stations didn't broadcast a full twenty four hour cycle. I can recall that day, because I was born in 1963, so it shows.

[JHollowayNetwork]

Can You upload WNBC-TV Sign-Off 1964 Re-creation?

[dan1701a]

"96.13 on the FM dial?" Did they have such superfine tuners in FM radios in 1964? And I'dathunk that WTOP-AM would have been farther up the dial than 1500, but that's just me. Good job on the recreation!

[wmbrown6]

@dan1701a - It sounds like Gregg Oliver misspoke. The original WTOP-FM (which was later donated to Howard University and is now WHUR) was at 96.3 MHz (or, as called in those days, "mc"); today's WTOP-FM is at 103.5.

[KVKW]

Oh.. whatever happened to the National Association of Broadcasters' seal of good practice? Those were the days!

[frightfan1]

Love it!

[GOOSEYGOOSE9]

National association of broadcasters seal of good practice Television Code was used on Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea,Daniel Boone,The Legend Of Jesse James,Custer,Peyton Place,Lost In Space,The Long Hot Summer,The Rifleman,The Defenders,The Beverly Hillbillies,Petticoat Junction,Gunsmoke,Perry Mason,Rawhide,The Pilots Of Lancer And The Ghost And Mrs.Muir.

[markojameow]

@GOOSEYGOOSE9 If the Television Code was still around we'd not have the kind of banal, disgusting garbage that passes for programming today. This is one thing that we should bring back - maybe I don't want milquetoast approaches to such things as sex and drugs, but I would like to see the return of creative, intelligent and well-written programming (with a little escapism on the side for good measure).

[enigma413]

Very good.

[MSTS1]

Nice work on this one; looks like the real thing to me

[mca1218]

That second graphic of the big, gray 9 with the scratchy, filmy surface is fantastic. I watched all the local sign-offs as a kid and preteen, despite being only 2 years old in 1964. I've been wondering what happened to the WRC-TV 4 sign-off graphics- the little paragraph about "Programs broadcast by this station may not be used for any purpose...," the large snake 'NBC', and Mac McGarry announcing. Kinda sad now that there's really no TV sign-offs, and no TV code station ident. Thanks for this.

[wmbrown6]

Would you know how the WRC-TV test pattern looked from the 1960's up to the '80's?

[kennyjohnson92]

It lookes to me like it was the real thing.

[elbrookman]

fantastic.......i used to wake up to that voice with the tv on......then go to bed.....hey do you have the "meditation" they used to run .....waves and ocean.....that the announcer mentions....great stuff

[SignOffsGuy]

The "Meditation" film is on my 1980 WDVM-TV sign-off clip.

[wmbrown6]

In this case, it appears the announcer was Greg Oliver.