WTOP-TV 9 (now WUSA) Sign-Off 1964 Re-creation

This clip replaces an earlier attempt at a 1964 WTOP-TV sign-off re-creation. This re-make is closer to what the original sign-off would have looked like. The audio is from 1964 and comes courtesy of Jeff Kadet's oldtvguides.com/analog (he has a number of 1964 audio recordings of TV station sign-offs there). The NAB Seal of Good Practice was the design used from 1959 to 1965, when it was replaced by a color version. The mid-1960s WTOP-TV ID slide comes from Dave Hughes' DCRTV.com, a website devoted to Washington and Baltimore-area media. I do not know the name of the announcer doing this sign-off.

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Entertainment

Tags:

• WTOP-TV
• WUSA-TV
• Washington
• CBS
• sign-off
• sign-on
• 1964

[elbrookman]

fantastic.......i used to wake up to that voice with the tv on......then go to bed.....hey do you have the "meditation" they used to run .....waves and ocean.....that the announcer mentions....great stuff

[SignOffsGuy]

The "Meditation" film is on my 1980 WDVM-TV sign-off clip.

[GOOSEYGOOSE9]

National association of broadcasters seal of good practice Television Code was used on Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea,Daniel Boone,The Legend Of Jesse James,Custer,Peyton Place,Lost In Space,The Long Hot Summer,The Rifleman,The Defenders,The Beverly Hillbillies,Petticoat Junction,Gunsmoke,Perry Mason,Rawhide,The Pilots Of Lancer And The Ghost And Mrs.Muir.

[MSTS1]

Nice work on this one; looks like the real thing to me

[letticiarsd898]

I miss the sign-offs and the sign-ons now that there's programming 24/7.

[dan1701a]

I like the little bit of rolling interference you put in. Looks quite authentic!

[chip64c]

Maybe the 96.13 was for Ham Radio stuff...kidding

[MegaJustGeorge]

This is not bad - a "lost artifact" from the days when television stations didn't broadcast a full twenty four hour cycle.  I can recall that day, because I was born in 1963, so it shows.

[JHollowayNetwork]

Can You upload WNBC-TV Sign-Off 1964 Re-creation?

[markojameow]

@GOOSEYGOOSE9 If the Television Code was still around we'd not have the kind of banal, disgusting garbage that passes for programming today. This is one thing that we should bring back - maybe I don't want milquetoast approaches to such things as sex and drugs, but I would like to see the return of creative, intelligent and well-written programming (with a little escapism on the side for good measure).

[wmbrown6]

@dan1701a - It sounds like Gregg Oliver misspoke. The original WTOP-FM (which was later donated to Howard University and is now WHUR) was at 96.3 MHz (or, as called in those days, "mc"); today's WTOP-FM is at 103.5.

[dan1701a]

"96.13 on the FM dial?" Did they have such superfine tuners in FM radios in 1964? And I'dathunk that WTOP-AM would have been farther up the dial than 1500, but that's just me. Good job on the recreation!

[KVKW]

Oh.. whatever happened to the National Association of Broadcasters' seal of good practice? Those were the days!

[frightfan1]

Love it!