WGBH-2 Boston - Sign-Off 1970 (2 of 2)

WGBH-2 Boston - Sign-Off 1970 (2 of 2)
Simulation Re-Creation. Designed and assembled by MSTS1 to add a video image to my 1970 audio recording.
[*Extraneous audio leaked across from adjacent quarter-track on my original reel recording.]
-ID - Sign-Off:
-Harpsichord; William Pierce
-Sign-Off statement by Robert Gennest

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• WGBH
• Channel-2
• Boston
• TV
• Television
• 1970
• PBS
• William
• Pierce
• Robert
• Gennest
• Sign-off

[mr2del]

I remember those days when they'd put the big "2" to bed. Seriously, they put it in a studio with a janitor mopping. Then one by one the lights went out around it. Then there's the late William Pierce, and Tom Dunn at the open and close of the Boston skyline. Thanks for putting this up. It came well before I was born in 1973.

[MSTS1]

See watch?v=2RKFZKxTwjE

[Net4Productions]

I'v seen this many times but the ending still give me the heeby geebys.

Explain the small beep and noise.

[capnvid47]

Ah, yes - William Pierce, erstwhile announcer for the Boston Symphony Or-Ches-Tra.

BTW: Does the BSO still do weekly concert broadcasts?

[chip64c]

The second call letter is 'G' as in Golf (W-hiskey G-olf B-ravo H-otel).

[theyumyumfilms]

what is the second call letter please????

[antoniod]

I never could get that pretentious Harpsichord piece out of my mind

[SellawEvets]

Love that harpsichord song!

[joyfulskies]

Very cool. Fascinating that they used the same script for the sign-off for so long...

[rainydaywoman1957]

mine is. i take my dog for a walk past it every day and my son also went there for a few years in his first few years of school when they made it into "abundant life christian school." its now back to being a normal school again.

[caseyg5]

My school isn't even there anymore, made into a condo. I mourn too for all the lost TV programming from that time.

[rainydaywoman1957]

so much history viewed on that single rolling trolley.