WNET-TV 13 sign-off

WNET signing off June 1986. Recorded from Philadelphia

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• TV
• Newark
• PBS

[APyleOfVinyl]

Awesome! Can you share the "Only The Best" promo too?

[Cosmopolite100]

13 had studios at the Henry Hudson Hotel on 58th Street near Ninth Avenue and also owned former CBS-TV Studio 58 at 840 Ninth Avenue (NW corner of 55th), a converted movie house which was demolished about five years ago.

[johnissoevil]

I had heard since asking the question above that 13 had another facility in NYC from sometime in the mid 80s until 1998, while retaining the Gateway Center studios until the late 80s.

[Cosmopolite100]

The studio you remember was at Gateway Center. WNET moved to 450 West 33rd Street in 1998.

[johnissoevil]

Does anyone know exactly what year WNET moved their studios from Newark to NYC? I remember WNET once having studios right across the street from Newark Penn Station. Now the studios are about a block away from, ironically enough, New York Penn Station.

[MikePike5]

From :34 to :38 The boat races a train.

[wmbrown6]

Actually, it was "Reverie" by Debussy. Still curious as to whose recording it was.

[wmbrown6]

I have a serious question: Does anyone know precisely which music was used for the sign-off film that was played for years (and is seen here)? I'd've thought it was something out of a Benjamin Godard piece.

[Dink513]

Also, when I lived in Altoona, I'd occasionally pick up WNET (it would interfere with Pittsburgh's WQED, also on channel 13)

[johnissoevil]

Cool. It would seem in South Jersey and anywhere else in the Philly market, the cable wire brought you the crappy EMI service, the aerial would bring you at least a b-grade signal of the local feed.