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

[nsa1]

Kind of related... when was the CBS TOH tone/bong/chime/whatever last used on the TV side?

Until late 1980 or very early 1981 at the latest, I think. Was definitely gone by the summer of '81 when we got our first VCR. I have CBS recordings from 1979 into 1980 I believe (from video trades) that still have the bong after the station ID.

 

[nsa1]

Kind of related... when was the CBS TOH tone/bong/chime/whatever used on the TV side?

Also, when exactly did the NBC "beep" time tone used in the early '70's (and presumably earlier) disappear?

Did ABC ever have a time tone on TV (none that I can remember)?

 

[wbhist]

Also, when exactly did the NBC "beep" time tone used in the early '70's (and presumably earlier) disappear?

Did ABC ever have a time tone on TV (none that I can remember)?

As to the first question: Around 1975. As to the second: Can't say.

B.T.W., by the time the NBC "beep" was retired, it was set around 750 Hz and sounded like a combo of sine and square.

 

[ixnay]

The NBC "beep" is still used at TOH and BOH on KYW-1060 Philadelphia. Been that way for maybe 40 years by now.

ixnay

 

[wbhist]

The NBC "beep" is still used at TOH and BOH on KYW-1060 Philadelphia. Been that way for maybe 40 years by now.

Don't forget - prior to going all-news in 1965, KYW was an NBC affiliate. And of course, from 1956 to '65 it was owned by NBC as WRCV.

But the frequency of that KYW tone has increased over the years. Last I heard, it'd gone up to 787 Hz.

 

[Bob1370]

"But the frequency of that KYW tone has increased over the years. Last I heard, it'd gone up to 787 Hz."

Lots of stations still use a TOTH tone...WIVB-TV in Buffalo has used it since sign-on in 1948 (and before that, its onetime sister station WBEN (AM) used it, and in fact still does, along with a double tone at the exact bottom of the hour). I think it's a 1 kHZ tone...

 

[danderson4411]

i remember hearing bob cruz do that at the end of wide world of sports in terms of staying tuned for local news and world news tonight this was in the early 90s

 

[bmasters1981]

"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."

That Batman one is preserved on Warner Bros.' recent first-season DVD release, starting with the second episode.

 

[CTListener]

And what was the last network series (drama or sitcom) that had the title and cast announced at the beginning of the show? This was an obvious carry-over from radio that lasted way too long, IMO, into the TV era. "The Dick Van Dyke Show" began with a graphic reading "The Dick Van Dyke Show," but the announcer always had to shout "The Dick Van Dyke Show!" every time. Did this practice end sometime in the '60s, or were there holdouts in the '70s?

 

[bmasters1981]

Did this practice end sometime in the '60s, or were there holdouts in the '70s?

I remember the Quinn Martin series doing it, like on The Streets of San Francisco for instance.

 

[danderson4411]

i have always wondered why jay stewart never did that with wheel of fortune at the end of sotc on nbc if dan region did it with guiding light at the end of atwt on cbs

 

[JeffM]

And what was the last network series (drama or sitcom) that had the title and cast announced at the beginning of the show? This was an obvious carry-over from radio that lasted way too long, IMO, into the TV era. "The Dick Van Dyke Show" began with a graphic reading "The Dick Van Dyke Show," but the announcer always had to shout "The Dick Van Dyke Show!" every time. Did this practice end sometime in the '60s, or were there holdouts in the '70s?

Part of that carry-over from radio had to do with the announcer's reading the sponsor's opening "billboard" as part of the opening. A lot of the main titles of rerun shows still contain a "Brought to you by..." that leads nowhere. The voice-over continued into the 70's at least on variety shows ("It's the Carol Burnett Show, with Harvey Korman, Vicki Lawrence, and Tim Conway!")

 

[bmasters1981]

Part of that carry-over from radio had to do with the announcer's reading the sponsor's opening "billboard" as part of the opening.

Here's a sports example: Don Robertson (CBS Sports V/O announcer then) opening The Prudential College Football Report with Jim Nantz, from a 1986 FSU/Miami broadcast from WTVJ in Miami (formerly the CBS station on Channel 4, now the NBC O&O on Channel 6). Go to the 1:49:57 mark; there is a WTVJ ID, and then the opening billboard. Just thought I'd bring that up.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4UNpZ78f-s

 

[anotherguyTN]

"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 was done on Police Squad (and by Hank Simms, from what others have said) as an obvious spoof of the Quinn Martin shows.

 

[LKellerIII]

San Francisco's KPIX (then owned by Westinghouse) was infamous for pre-empting CBS programming. Sometimes it was just to run some locally produced special, but generally it was for violence...I recall that they refused to run Charles Bronson's Death Wish when it had it's "network television premiere." Assuming there were other affiliates that did the same thing, CBS was certainly justified in using that disclaimer.

KPIX was well known for pissing off CBS. They also experimented with early prime time in the early 90s. It was a bit ironic then, that KPIX became a network O&O in the late 90s because Westinghouse purchased CBS. After that, KPIX toed the network line completely.

 

[bm10k]

Been watching repeats of The Doctors on Retro TV and they left in the announcer
"Stay Tuned For Another World In Color"

 

[bmasters1981]

Been watching repeats of The Doctors on Retro TV and they left in the announcer
"Stay Tuned For Another World In Color"

I've heard before where the announcer at the end of Another World would say, "Now stay tuned to You Don't Say, next in color on NBC."

 

[danderson4411]

I've heard before where the announcer at the end of Another World would say, "Now stay tuned to You Don't Say, next in color on NBC."

did jay stewart ever do that with wheel of fortune at the end of sale of the century?