WECT sign-off 1988

1988 sign-off of WECT-TV Channel 6, Wilmington NC.

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[signoff12]

thanks to jawman1962

[dxtrfn80]

I guess this sign off was from a Sunday Night as it was 12:45am.

[v8foad]

I am a native of Wilmington,and remember seeing this one. The people who originally put this together did a great job. WECT also had a memorable sign on/off around 73' or 74' Wish I could find the one from the late 60's, early 70's that had the military jets and a man reading a script (poem or speach?). Keep up the good work signoff12.

[PGMEagle]

I remember I recved them one time when I was in Norfolk VA with Rabbit ears. And the signal came in quite good too. Impressive

[wmbrown6]

The design itself (the "CBS test pattern") was late 1940's / early '50's, first used by WCBS-TV in New York (which continued to use it well into the early 1990's). WECT, from what I could tell, used this design at least as far back as when those call letters were first adopted around '58.

[wb8976]

Nice to see an old fashioned test pattern appear for a brief moment at 1:30. That must be from the 50s or something.

[SpecialTVOffer]

That is true. When I was a kid, we used to pick up Chicago and Cleveland stations in Detroit, off a simple Wal-Mart special outdoor antenna. If the weather was exceptionally perfect, we even got station from Pittsburgh and St. Louis. DX reception is a wonderful thing :-)

[SpecialTVOffer]

This must have been off a bad set of rabbit ears.

[johnnysama]

The fact that this sign-off features James Brown's (RIP) "Living in America" adds more funkiness and pizazz to this sign-off. Wish sign-offs, however rare they are in this age of 24-hour broadcasting, more like this one.

[Siyahamba]

This is the best sign-off ever.

[Spock2]

R.I.P. James Brown "Living in America" (1933-2006)