1978 KABC Station Signoff & National Anthem

December 1978 KABC Los Angeles station sign-off followed by the U.S. Air Force "High Flight" film and the National Anthem over various Air Force scenes. Very patriotic and wonderful to watch back in the day if you could stay up that late.

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[EightiesTV]

Sounds like this version was arranged by Giorgio Moroder.

[nuts4clara]

@jolieblondeLA Ch. 7 had the creepiest sign-offs of all of Los Angeles televsion back then, due to the use of overly dramatic music and Lenn Beardsleys' over the top delivery that made me afraid to sleep on rare occasions; Sign-offs started becoming extinct at this time(I was child then), because American television started broadcasting 24 hours a day.

[JesseL85719]

@chillaxer1993 There still are some that still sign off nowadays instead of the crap airing after midnight (and these stations consider them crap too.).

[chillaxer1993]

wow american tv used to be so cool.  i'd take this instead of the crap running after midnight

[jolieblondeLA]

How freaking cool is this signoffl!!! What a great tribute to aerospace engineering out here! We never had anything this cool growing up in the South. I think it was a still of a confederate flag and Swanney River playing ... LOL ;D

[CelesteK]

@wmbrown6 I did not know that. :)

[wmbrown6]

@CelesteK - And also WABC-TV in New York.

[meanmon]

I wish I could find the "sign-off" that a Los Angeles TV station used back in the late 70's where they would use the "2001 Space Odyssey" (Also Spake Zarathustra) as images of the Apollo and Saturn 5 rockets where being shown. Does anyone remember that scene?

[CelesteK]

This is the same Moog SSB that WUHF 31 Rochester, NY used. :)

[tktru]

Background music eerily reminds me of propaganda music.