WNEW-TV (Metromedia) New York 1980 sign-off

Simplicity again, with a poor speakering audio...

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• Metromedia
• sign-off
• closedown
• fermeture

[wmbrown6]

A fitting tribute to the sign-off announcer here, Tom Gregory (R.I.P.)

[epgrove1961]

Tom Gregory, Ed Ladd, and Lou Steele were the booth announcers at WNEW-TV Metromedia Channel 5 for many years before Fox Network bought them and changed the calls to WNYW and then ruined the tri-state image of the station.

[NYVoice]

What ever happened to the great Ed Ladd? He and Fred Scott are the two I remember the most during those 19602-70s heydays of the old WNEW Channel 5.

[GroddGuerrilla]

World Trade what..?

[ssoberstgroupandfuhr]

It's all very sad to have seen everything go generic. I was born in the early 1970's and we had a very nice TV. I watched a great deal of TV in the 1970's- all of the stations had uniqueness to them(NYC\NJ). Especially 9 WOR and ch. 5. I can say without question, it was during the 1990's EVERYTHING changed in this country- for the worse for an average regular guy. TV for me was a big part of it.

[JohnFenner76]

@epgrove1961 Fox ruined the local image of every station they purchased. Under the ownership of Taft, TVX, and Paramount, WTAF/WTXF had a local connection to Philadelphia. Once Fox bought the station in 1995, that was gone.

[ElectricYangNYC]

WTC was in that shot!

[EricEbac22]

epgrove1961--

Ed Ladd continued announcing for WNEW (Now WNYW) until the mid 1990s; in fact, if you flip to another sign-off on this page, you will hear him announcing another station sign-off from 1986.

[Hawkeye752]

Always recall the annoucer would suggest turning on your radio to WNEW-AM for the best in all night music.

[johnissoevil]

@epgrove1961 While John Roland was still at the station, he kept the tri-state image intact on the newscasts. Nowadays, you have Ernie Anastos cussing Nick Gregory out (albeit by accident, lol).

[digitalmasterdata]

wowpsa ! no more from this or wtc ! lol

[noahf67]

My kid-vid summers of '78. '79, had some fine dusk-to-sign off Ch. 5 viewing.

Hollywood's Finest, The Jack Benny Program, News Headlines, and a little

feature titled "Feeling Good", wrapped with Mangione's famous anthem.

And a pile of scary PSA's.