WNYW-TV 5 New York sign-off

[ARCTICCUISINE]

I laughed so hard at how that fanfare b

[akaravanas]

I've noticed a lot on here from viewers in Philly picking up our NY stations and recording this- I'm not entirely surprised considering the height of the transmitters at the time (World Trade)- but has anyone since 9/11 and pre-DTV ever had success picking anything up again? Even here in NY signals got bad once all the facilities backed up to the Empire State Bldg- and DTV is virtually impossible out here in the suburbs.

[Adam10Rocks]

WNYW (Analog Channel 5 In Manhattan, New York, etc.) (June ?, 1986)

[MEETTHEJERSEYANS]

".....transmitter atop the World Trade Center

[4evernate28]

Damn, this is creepy! What is that show at :11?

[marcboxler]

Man this is too much ...scaryyyy!! :<

[wb2dyb]

Wow, takes me back. I was working for an engineering consultant and WNEW was our client, working on microwave relay (triple path) and WTC transmitter plant. That Philips test generator was supposed to be the source if all three paths failed. One Friday in '81 it was on the air. All three paths went out. Seems a building maint aguy at the G+W building relay killed the switch feeding the system. When the batteries ran out (3 hours) all went away. Except the test gen. The power fail alarm? disabled

[johnissoevil]

"This is Ed Ladd, and did you know, my voice can be heard down in Philadelphia, even without cable?" :-)

[TechnerVideo]

The video looked bad because I recorded it from Philadelphia and had adjacent channel interference from local Channel 6.

[asnycnow15]

i know...............but the graphics for fox in 1986-1995 there were some major screw-ups

[asnycnow15]

fox was smaller then that's why the video is screwy

[johnissoevil]

I remember back in 1993, during a visit to Philadelphia, we pulled in WWOR-TV one night. My friends were loving it, they were watching the real WWOR as opposed to the EMI crap they got on cable.

[asnycnow15]

WWOR-TV is still a superstation......they[WWOR]st­ill goes natrionwide & they dont share their superstation signal with WNYW-5

[asnycnow15]

WWOR-TV is still a superstation......they[WWOR]st­ill goes natrionwide & they dont share their superstation signal with WNYW-5

[wmbrown6]

Furthermore . . . I seem to recall, after Fox bought Ch. 5 and renamed it WNYW, the station aired an NTSC version of Philips PM5544 color bars prior to sign-on.

[wmbrown6]

Voiced by Ed Ladd - and I.I.N.M., it was one of his last works for the station before his death. Back when what was then WNEW-TV did "live" sign-offs (up to about the late 1970's), Ladd used to alternate every other day or so with the "Metromedia Man," Tom Gregory, in signing off the station (Ladd's ending words: "...good night...and good morning").

[TechnerVideo]

wm, what does I.I.N.M mean? Thanks

[wmbrown6]

Be glad to answer your query - the initials stand for "if I'm not mistaken." I also see at this point they went back to the Flag Evolution "SSB," which they used in its original form until about 1978 or '79 when the then WNEW-TV had custom "SSB's" set to the music thereof (the most famous being after 1983, with shots of suburban NY and NJ).

[TechnerVideo]

Yes, I do remember the "Music Box Dancer" tune by Frank Mills played after the sign-off back in 1979. Was this WNEW-TV 5 or WPIX 11?

[wmbrown6]

I don't know about "Music Box Dancer" - but WNEW began and ended theirs with a piece that sounded like it could've come from the Salsoul Orchestra or a group along those lines. WPIX, they used a homemade film of a flag flying in the breeze to the tune of the Army Band "SSB" (the same music as on WNBC-TV's sign-ons and -offs).

[Tuberboy104]

In the Fall of 1978 WNEW TV Ch 5 began using their custom SSB Video.

[Tuberboy104]

It was indeed WNEW TV Ch 5 starting in the

Fall of 1978.

[Tuberboy104]

It was the Fall of 1978 when WNEW TV began using the custom SSB Video.

[asnycnow15]

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