KTBS-TV Sign-off 1975

KTBS-TV sign-off/Shreveport, Louisiana 1975

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Entertainment

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• television
• sign-off
• Shreveport
• Louisiana
• KTBS

[spufferama321]

@spadesaddict: You're welcome!

[brimi925]

Ridiculous comment. Those thoughts you had in your mind only show your own biases/feelings. Those of us who grew up here never even entertained such ideas while listening/watching this.  Never ONCE did I think of such horrors.

[HarlodJenkins]

Can't believe somebody has this! I remember this from when I was a kid, Saturday night after the "Big Movie". The announcer was Reisor Bowden I think. Too bad they wouldn't be able to sign off with "Dixie" on TV anymore without trouble. What a pretty song and film.

I wonder if anyone has Channel 12's morning sign-on from that era? It was very nicely done as well. Thanks for posting this.

[noahf67]

Nice..! Who says you can't sign off in style..?

[sd02231]

Did this station forget that their state is still part of America? Where's our National Anthem? Give up the Confederacy bullshit, you lost, get over it.

[butanebandit]

@Mr1991ladarius If I'm not mistaken, this video was pulled straight off the master tape that an employee had at their desk. This isn't a home video recording, thus the high quality.

[Fontenotcjf]

This sign-off had special meaning one night in August 1975. The ark-la-tex would have been informed by News that evening, of Hank Williams Jr.'s near death experience that afternoon in Montana. Maybe these same thoughts of "Dixie" resonated in Hank's mind as he lay helpless on that Mountain side.

[gatesca10]

NICE QUALITY

[mrceleb2006]

No national anthem or test pattern at the end of this clip.

BTW, incredible quality for a TV signoff dating way back to 1975.

[roovelroe]

@arkologist

Great to know I'm not alone in trying to find the Moon-Handshake in Space Lonely People sign off. It aired in Jacksonville, Fla as well.

[Mr1991ladarius]

@gjc82071 I don't know, but I always find sign offs very annoying because I was born in the early '90s (1991) and while I was growing up as a Kid, I would stay up late at night to watch TV and at one point there would be a rainbow screened or gray screened sign off that would last about an hour and whenever I would get so excited for Nickelodeon to come on at 5am after Nick @ Nite, I would get so annoyed by the rainbow screened sign off that would come on 30 minutes or 60 minutes before 5am.

[gjc82071]

@Mr1991ladarius Yea true, but, maybe it wasn't actually recorded IN 1975 though?  I remember the sign offs in my area of the country, they would use the same 1 for many years. Maybe this initially MADE in 1975, but was recorded in the late 70's/early 80's? It's very beautiful though. I wish I knew who sang it. Such a beautiful voice! I miss TV sign offs. Infomercials killed'em. TV sign offs were natures way off telling you it was time to go to sleep/bed. LOL (unless you had HBO).

[Mr1991ladarius]

I'm surprised that somebody recorded it because home video recordings were very rare in the early to mid '70s.