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"Next on Most of These XXX Stations" - Last Time Networks did this?

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mysticnitekatt

When was the last time the networks stopped saying

"...Next On Most of These (CBS/NBC/ABC) Stations"

The last sign of when networks shared affiliations with stations and/or shows were preempted on a local level.
 
mysticnitekatt said:
When was the last time the networks stopped saying

"...Next On Most of These (CBS/NBC/ABC) Stations"

The last sign of when networks shared affiliations with stations and/or shows were preempted on a local level.
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Back in the 70's and much of the 80's, CBS always did that.
 
I was watching the closing of a 16mm B&W Kinescope episode of General Hospital from 1968 (which was originally in color), Ed Chandler (who was the announcer for GH until 1976) said "Stay tuned for Dark Shadows in color next over most of these ABC stations!". It's on YouTube. Type General Hospital 1968.

On CBS, I think the last time they did it was during the closing of now defunct As The World Turns from the early 1990s with the announcer saying "Stay tuned to Guiding Light (now defunct), next over most of these CBS stations".
 
"ATWT" was the last place I remember hearing that phrase.
The announcer at the time was Dan Region and, IIRC, the
announcement was discontinued after Procter & Gamble let
him go in 1998.

Re "Stay tuned for 'Dark Shadows,' next in color...": ABC was
big on that phrase "in color" in 1966 and '67. They dropped
their opening of three circles lining up to form abc in
different colors starting with "Batman" in order to put in an
extra commercial minute; eventually, there'd be either a slide
of the show's logo with the words "in color" underneath, an
announcer (such as Bob Warren on "The Lawrence Welk Show"
or Hank Simms on the Quinn Martin shows) intoning the phrase
"in color," or one of the network's big stars such as Elizabeth
Montgomery saying the phrase; she'd appear at the start of
"Bewitched" and say, "Hi! Stay tuned for 'Bewitched'...
next...in color."
 
It's still done in a way on some cable networks during breaks with a 10 second blurb saying "You're watching ____. Coming up next ____.", or with a bug on the bottom of the screen.
 
bpatrick said:
"ATWT" was the last place I remember hearing that phrase.
The announcer at the time was Dan Region and, IIRC, the
announcement was discontinued after Procter & Gamble let
him go in 1998.

Re "Stay tuned for 'Dark Shadows,' next in color...": ABC was
big on that phrase "in color" in 1966 and '67. They dropped
their opening of three circles lining up to form abc in
different colors starting with "Batman" in order to put in an
extra commercial minute; eventually, there'd be either a slide
of the show's logo with the words "in color" underneath, an
announcer (such as Bob Warren on "The Lawrence Welk Show"
or Hank Simms on the Quinn Martin shows) intoning the phrase
"in color," or one of the network's big stars such as Elizabeth
Montgomery saying the phrase; she'd appear at the start of
"Bewitched" and say, "Hi! Stay tuned for 'Bewitched'...
next...in color."
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I remember that quite well - thanks for affirming that I wasn't crazy! Friday evenings, the Brady Bunch would start with a short musical intro (based on the theme) with a slide showing the family arrayed along the stairs of the 'house', the show's logo, and the words "in COLOR" at the bottom. This had to be in 1969 or so.
 
It used to always annoy me when announcers talked over the closing theme of a TV show (usually while the credits rolled), but I suppose that that was only the precursor of pushing the credits off to the side of the screen ("scrunching"), and interrupting the theme music with the theme music of whatever show (usually the next program) that they happened to be promoting. :mad:
 
I actually still hear this on occasion towards the end of the late Sunday afternoon NFL game. Particularly if it is running long.
 
The network announcement I always loved and haven't heard in decades - "Now stay tuned for station identification."

Really, what they meant was - station identification plus 4 more commercials.
 
Lkeller said:
The network announcement I always loved and haven't heard in decades - "Now stay tuned for station identification."

Really, what they meant was - station identification plus 4 more commercials.
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My guess is this was also a warning to the local booth announcer to get ready to do the I.D. I know that many stations did this live well into the 1960's.
 
It's almost like when stations would say "We'll be back after these messages and word from your local station" . I think football games still do this today. I remember Joey Bishop used that cue during local breaks on his late night show back in the sixties and early seventies.
 
searadiofreak said:
Lkeller said:
The network announcement I always loved and haven't heard in decades - "Now stay tuned for station identification."

Really, what they meant was - station identification plus 4 more commercials.
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My guess is this was also a warning to the local booth announcer to get ready to do the I.D. I know that many stations did this live well into the 1960's.
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A variant I'm more familiar with is "We'll be back after these words and station identification", meaning a minute or two of local commercials and station ID.
 
And part of that was in some markets, some stations had 2 networks on them (in a 2 station market). so it could be possible that Concentration From NBC might get followed by Edge of Night from CBS Followed by Jeopardy from NBC in some markets.
 
searadiofreak said:
Lkeller said:
The network announcement I always loved and haven't heard in decades - "Now stay tuned for station identification."

Really, what they meant was - station identification plus 4 more commercials.
Click to expand...

My guess is this was also a warning to the local booth announcer to get ready to do the I.D. I know that many stations did this live well into the 1960's.
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Also a warning to the local master control op that the station break was coming soon. It wasn't always clear exactly when local spots were supposed to roll.. and generally you needed a 3-5 second preroll on videotape and film.
 
One similar phrase I still hear from time to time:

"Check your local listings"

Usually this is when a promo airs on a cable channel about a broadcast-network show or about a show on a different cable channel....usually this practice occurs when no specific time is given for when the show will air.

Otherwise, I haven't heard the regular use of "Next on most...." in many years. But as others have posted, I have run across a few examples on YouTube:
* "Stay tuned for Match Game '75 next over most of these CBS stations" at the end of a closing for The Edge of Night
* "Stay tuned for The Secret Storm next over most of these CBS stations" at the end of a closing for Match Game '73
* "Now stay tuned for The Young and the Restless after the news over most of these CBS stations" at the end of a closing for Love of Life
* "And on most of these same stations, stay tuned for romance, suspense, and drama, on Somerset" at the end of an Another World closing (1975? 1976?)
 
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