Main Page Updated Friday, 9 May 2008
This site is devoted to the memory of a bygone era in American broadcasting when all TV stations' programming ended at the conclusion of Johnny Carson's Tonight Show or The Late Movie. This site will be featuring authentic recordings of U.S. television stations ending their broadcast day with the playing of the Star Spangled Banner (SSB), America The Beautiful (ATB) or some other patriotic piece before cutting the juice or going to a test pattern. With very few exceptions, all U.S. TV stations now operate 24 hours a day, seven days a week, filling their overnight schedules with home shopping fare, all-night network news, movies and daytime talk-show reruns.
The site is still a work in progress. However, I currently have a number of pages finished and ready for viewing. The links to these are below. To view these streaming video clips, you will need at least a basic Broadband Internet connection (DSL/cable/WiFi), unless you are a dial-up user with an extraordinary amount of patience.
Thank you all very much for viewing my website. Any comments or suggestions are welcome.
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| WRAL-TV Channel 5 Raleigh, NC Sign-Off from Summer 1989 The sign-off announcement is rendered by longtime WRAL weatherman Bob Debardelaben, since retired. After that, we have the wonderful "Flag Evolution" National Anthem film, which is chock full of historic images of United States history, spanning from the earliest white European settlers to the planting of the U.S. flag on the moon in 1969. To end the clip, a few seconds of color bars and tone. To see more sign-offs and sign-on clips from the Raleigh/Durham/Fayetteville area, visit this page! |
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NOTE: The video files featured on this website are taken from my VHS home recordings of over-the-air and cable video captures, and from clips contributed by others. The quality varies from clip to clip, due to TV reception and recording issues. None of the clips that are featured here have been authorized by the various television stations, networks or any other entity.
Graphics and design copyright 2007 by J. Alan Wall. All rights reserved.
Comments or questions? Email me at jalanwall(AT)tv-signoffs(DOT)com
