Signoff question

[jc]

> > WBNG-TV, Channel 12, in Binghamton, NY goes off the air
> around 3-4 or so every Saturday and Sunday morning and comes
> back on at 5, 5:30-ish. They sign off with the national
> anthem playing over footage of things like the Statue of
> Liberty and Mount Rushmore.
>

Is it a synthesized national anthem? If it is then that's an old one. I'm looking for a video recording of that. Two stations in my area WYES-TV 12 (PBS) New Orleans and WKRG-TV 5 (CBS) Mobile/Pensacola played that in the 1980s.

BTW, One station still signs off in my area, WMAH-TV 19 (PBS, MPB) Biloxi, MS on Sunday Nights from 12 AM-6 AM. They list all of their stations WMAB, WMAE, WMAH, WMAO, etc the announcer says their effective radiated power. When all of that is done they play the national anthem which is american history. It ends with Neil Armstrong on the Moon. The one that WTAF/WTXF and WRAL played. After that they leave the color bars on. They used to turn off the transmitter when they signed off every night.

WKRG-TV when they rarely sign off on Saturday nights they signoff with effective radiated of power, etc, play the National Anthem with the Blue Angels Squadron National Anthem and then cut off the transmitter, except when they signoff when its daylight savings time in which they signoff for an hour they leave the color bars on

 

[TheTiger]

> > > WBNG-TV, Channel 12, in Binghamton, NY goes off the air
>
> > around 3-4 or so every Saturday and Sunday morning and
> comes
> > back on at 5, 5:30-ish. They sign off with the national
> > anthem playing over footage of things like the Statue of
> > Liberty and Mount Rushmore.
> >
>
> Is it a synthesized national anthem? If it is then that's an
> old one. I'm looking for a video recording of that. Two
> stations in my area WYES-TV 12 (PBS) New Orleans and WKRG-TV
> 5 (CBS) Mobile/Pensacola played that in the 1980s.
>
> BTW, One station still signs off in my area, WMAH-TV 19
> (PBS, MPB) Biloxi, MS on Sunday Nights from 12 AM-6 AM. They
> list all of their stations WMAB, WMAE, WMAH, WMAO, etc the
> announcer says their effective radiated power. When all of
> that is done they play the national anthem which is american
> history. It ends with Neil Armstrong on the Moon. The one
> that WTAF/WTXF and WRAL played. After that they leave the
> color bars on. They used to turn off the transmitter when
> they signed off every night.
>
> WKRG-TV when they rarely sign off on Saturday nights they
> signoff with effective radiated of power, etc, play the
> National Anthem with the Blue Angels Squadron National
> Anthem and then cut off the transmitter, except when they
> signoff when its daylight savings time in which they signoff
> for an hour they leave the color bars on
>

The last time the stations that signed off in my area was in 1998. They were WOLF-TV(FOX) and WSWB-TV(WB), both owned by Pegasus Communications. Now they are 24/7, with infomercials overnights.

In the early summer of '97 when we got up around 4am for a trip to New Jersey and Philadelphia on the weekends, WOLF-TV showed their station's logo(they were called "FOX 38" before the WB station moved to that channel and forced them to move to Channel 56 a year later). That logo was used before the start of each program during that time. They didn't shown the color bars like the other stations do.

Years earlier, the rest of the Scranton/W-B stations had shown either color bars or the station's logo. WNEP-TV used the color bar and the big text reading "WNEP-TV 16", but with a higher pitched tone. WVIA-TV used to show the then station's logo with the big "44" and underneath it "WVIA-TV", with the lower-pitched tone. I don't know much about WBRE-TV, since our cable system blacks it out when the station was off the air. In Philadelphia, KYW 3 had the 50's era Indian head test pattern when it was off. This was all taken in 1991.

And I'm sorry to say that I never saw each station's signoffs, except for WOLF-TV and WSWB-TV.