WLVI Sign On

[jake1004]

If I remember, back in the 70s didn't WLVI use to play music during their test pattern? Anyone know why they did this?

 

[CTListener]

When it was WKBG, Channel 56 used to play "That Happy Feeling" over the test pattern and during station IDs during regular programming. As to why, who knows? Maybe because no actual testing was going on during those test pattern transmissions, so it didn't matter what audio accompanied the slide. It certainly made the station stand out, at least to the geeky kids like me who'd get up really early to check out test patterns and sign-ons.

 

[lesnessmanme]

One song in the mid to late 1970's was "City of New Orleans" by Also Guthrie. Every day it seemed. Maybe around 6 am??

 

[CTListener]

One song in the mid to late 1970's was "City of New Orleans" by Also Guthrie. Every day it seemed. Maybe around 6 am??

Wouldn't know. By then, I'd left Massachusetts and was living in the South, working at my first job. Interesting that 56 maintained its odd tradition of playing music over its test patterns for so long. When did it stop? When the station went to 24/7 programming?

 

[blackgold]

I remember they played "Hooked on Classics" by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra before going to the National Anthem and their morning prayer segments.

 

[IM42A]

I remember when WKYT Lexington KY played an instrumental version of Duane Eddy's "Because They're Young" before their sign-on, mid- to late-1970s. Never figured out why.