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The Star-Spangled Banner

vchimpanzee said:
This article is about one station but it gives the impression multiple stations are returning to the practice of "starting" their broadcast day with the National Anthem.

https://www.journalnow.com/entertai...cle_03eb2702-a7e2-58af-bdf4-1a5ce2973226.html
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This must be a Nexstar movement, as the North Dakota Nexstar CBS stations are doing the same thing. Here they are doing it at 3:59 a.m. Not sure why they picked that time, they should do it an hour later right before their Local program "Good Day Dakota" starts.
 
I'd rather see the National Anthem, a few seconds of an ID bumper or color bars and OFF THE AIR it goes. None of that infomercial or all-night news crap. "We now conclude our broadcast day. Please join us again later this morning for the best in entertainment! Good night!"
Kids today will never know what the term 'off the air' means. For the older generation, it meant the late movie was over and you fell asleep, waking up to static or the 400hz (or 1000hz) tone of a test pattern.

Sign offs still occur in Wyoming on the KGWC/KGWL/KGWR cluster. They also occur at KEYC Mankato MN, and I think KVAL Eugene as well (weekends only).
 
crainbebo said:
I'd rather see the National Anthem, a few seconds of an ID bumper or color bars and OFF THE AIR it goes. None of that infomercial or all-night news crap. "We now conclude our broadcast day. Please join us again later this morning for the best in entertainment! Good night!"
Kids today will never know what the term 'off the air' means. For the older generation, it meant the late movie was over and you fell asleep, waking up to static or the 400hz (or 1000hz) tone of a test pattern.

Sign offs still occur in Wyoming on the KGWC/KGWL/KGWR cluster. They also occur at KEYC Mankato MN, and I think KVAL Eugene as well (weekends only).
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I'd rather see dead air than infomercials or even a big part of daytime TV.:rolleyes:
 
crainbebo said:
I'd rather see the National Anthem, a few seconds of an ID bumper or color bars and OFF THE AIR it goes. None of that infomercial or all-night news crap. "We now conclude our broadcast day. Please join us again later this morning for the best in entertainment! Good night!"
Kids today will never know what the term 'off the air' means. For the older generation, it meant the late movie was over and you fell asleep, waking up to static or the 400hz (or 1000hz) tone of a test pattern.

Sign offs still occur in Wyoming on the KGWC/KGWL/KGWR cluster. They also occur at KEYC Mankato MN, and I think KVAL Eugene as well (weekends only).
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So you'd rather bwe stuck in the old ages and sign off for nostalgia reasons?

for someone whos never worked in radio or tv, you sure have a lot of opinions on how it should be done.
 
NoDakObserver said:
This must be a Nexstar movement, as the North Dakota Nexstar CBS stations are doing the same thing. Here they are doing it at 3:59 a.m.
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Nexstar, Gray and CBS O&O stations are all airing the Star-Spangled Banner early in the morning hours. Maybe other ownership groups as well.
 
KEYC in Mankato, MN has done the SSB every night even before Gray took over in March...because they still sign off nightly at 1:07am until 4:30am (5:30 on weekends)

for cable and satellite since they have a direct feed its just local weathermaps and the NOAA WX radio audio for the area
 
KYW (CBS3), in Philly airs it before the start of the their morning newscast, 4:30AM.
 
Oh good lord, the get-off-my-lawn crowd is out. We live in a 24 hour world. The days of signing off are deservedly headed for the dustbin of history where they belong.
 
SomeRadioGuy said:
So you'd rather bwe stuck in the old ages and sign off for nostalgia reasons?

for someone whos never worked in radio or tv, you sure have a lot of opinions on how it should be done.
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I think everyone should be able to add their opinions here. Is this not the 2nd or 3rd post you have attacked Crainbebo? Perhaps you guys have a feud or something, but give it a rest, please.
 
SomeRadioGuy said:
So you'd rather bwe stuck in the old ages and sign off for nostalgia reasons?

for someone whos never worked in radio or tv, you sure have a lot of opinions on how it should be done.
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EVERYONE is entitled to their opinion. Most people here seem to have opinions on how being President of the
United States should be done. Likely none of us will ever do it. But each is entitled to his opinions on the matter.

IMO people who never consider opinions from the outside tend to fall into dangerous patterns of groupthink.
 
vchimpanzee said:
This article is about one station but it gives the impression multiple stations are returning to the practice of "starting" their broadcast day with the National Anthem.

https://www.journalnow.com/entertai...cle_03eb2702-a7e2-58af-bdf4-1a5ce2973226.html
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Engineers have found that transmitter failures are most likely to occur when they are first powered up after being off for a period of time.
The thermal cycling ... hot-cold-hot-cold ,,, is the cause of most (non weather-related) transmitter failures.
 
anotherguy said:
I don't have a problem with overnight programming. Just come up with something worth watching instead of infomercials.
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If it was worth watching, they'd put it on at a better time. The infomercial pays the bills so they can run better programming at better times of day.

There are lots of options besides the stations running infomercials. Just change the station.
 
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