Late Sunday Night/Early Monday Morning TV Sign-Offs

[Madmansam]

I remember a time when even 24 Hour TV Stations would still sign off Late Sundays/Early Mondays. It used to be a standard for all TV Stations. I am guessing it was for weekly maintenence? In Northern California in the 1970's, I knew of only 2 TV Stations that stayed on the air Late Sunday Nights/Early Mondays: KNTV Channel 11-San Jose and KEMO Channel 20-San Francisco for ALL NIGHT MOVIES. While KEMO signed off by 6:AM ( a little later when they started airing STOCK MARKET REPORTS), KNTV was a then rare 24/7 TV Station. Soon after KEMO was sold by Leon Crosby to Jim Gabbert, Gabbert continued the ALL NIGHT MOVIES on LATE SUNDAY NIGHTS/EARLY SUNDAY MORNINGS with himself as host of THE SLEAZEY ARMS. Then in 1982, CBS debuted a CBS NEWS NIGHTWATCH on LATE SUNDAYS/EARLY MONDAY MORNINGS. Now very few stations sign off at all.

 

[bhayes1016]

KHOU (CBS) Houston does a ceremonial sign-off for about 15 minutes on Saturday and Sunday mornings.

 

[Corky Marlowe]

Big stick, big city radio stations generally signed off at midnight on Sunday for transmitter maintenance as late as the late 60s. There's an aircheck of Larry Lujack on WLS from late December of 1968 where he mentions that the station will be on all Sunday night instead of signing off so they can continue counting down the Big 89 of 1968. I can remember WOWO signing off at midnight on Sunday as late as the late 70s.

 

[neo11]

I think WNET-13 here in NYC still signs off late Sunday night-early Monday morning for a couple of hours.

 

[MarcB]

Over the air WEDH/24 CPTV still signs off at Midnight 7 days a week. They remain on the air on cable with CPTV All Night. Sometimes instead of the regular CPTV logo their logo during the CPTV All Night programming would say WEDW 49 Bridgeport, CT. (WEDW is the CPTV station in Fairfield County). This is not available on DIRECT TV or DISH NETWORK. Both have colors bars with a black bar and white letters that read WEDH Please Stand By.

 

[donnyg]

Big stick, big city radio stations generally signed off at midnight on Sunday for transmitter maintenance as late as the late 60s. There's an aircheck of Larry Lujack on WLS from late December of 1968 where he mentions that the station will be on all Sunday night instead of signing off so they can continue counting down the Big 89 of 1968. I can remember WOWO signing off at midnight on Sunday as late as the late 70s.

I remember when WJR had "Night Flight 76" with Jay Roberts and once a month or so they would sign off on Sundays for maintenance so it would be a short "flight" like say detroit to columbus so they could sign-off at midnight. I wish someone had nightflight airchecks to listen to on the net. Those were the days.

Donny G ;D

 

[quadraphonic]

A couple of stations in Raleigh still sign off Sunday nights for a couple hours, or did a couple years ago.
I think it was WRAZ Fox 50, and maybe WRDC MyRDC 28, and CW22 (they used to be WLFL but they might have changed call letters).

 

[cyberdad]

This conjures up memories of my late '60s college days in Iowa when the only TV after midnight was the local NBC affiliate, which put on Alfred Hitchcock reruns after Johnny Carson ended. (Thus keeping them on the air until 12:30).

 

[N_D_Radioguy]

The Tribune stations in Indianapolis often still power down for a few hours on Sunday night/Monday morning.

About twice a month, either WTTV-4 and/or WXIN-59 will go dark.

 

[rjoc]

The television stations of Maine Public Broadcasting Network all sign off air at 1AM 7 days a week; although they are on all night on local Bangor-area Time-Warner cable system, I don't know about other cable systems around Maine.
Check their website for calls/channels and coverage areas.
www.mpbn.net

 

[jc]

Mississippi Public Broadcasting (MPB) still does its signoff on late Sunday nights on over the air and cable.