KNBC-TV 4, LOS ANGELES
SIGN-OFF NEWS PAGE
Page Created Friday, 5 October 2007
My many thanks to Joseph Goria of Los Angeles and Don Denton of Covina CA for contributing the clips on this page. Each clip is approximately thirty minutes long, and include all commercials, program promos and public service announcements (PSA). To view these clips, you will need at least a basic broadband Internet connection (DSL/cable/WiFi).
NewsCenter 4 Sign-Off Edition
& KNBC Sign-Off
Saturday, 4 July 1981
| Point of Time in Video | Description |
| 00:00 | NewsCenter 4 Promo featuring John Beard and Tritia Toyota |
| 00:06 | NewsCenter 4 Sign-Off Edition Headlines by Peggy Taylor |
| 00:32 | LEAD STORY: Lone Survivor of Laurel Canyon Massacre under LAPD guard at Cedar-Sinai Hosptial - "Live" report by Laurel Erickson (apparently tape from 11 pm newscast) |
| 02:01 | SPORTS: Chris
Everet-Lloyd wins Wimbleton women's title Major League Baseball strike continues - NBC News report by Stephen Fraizer |
| 04:24 | COMMERCIAL BREAK: Topol the Smoker's Tooth Polish and a PSA by the Greater Los Angeles Visitors and Convention Buerau, |
| 05:30 | NATIONAL NEWS: Public Television Financing Woes - NBC News report by Bob Jamieson. |
| 09:51 | COMMERCIAL BREAK: Lee's Bars 'N Stools 'N Dinettes, repeat of Topol commercial, Banner Carpets 4th of July Sale, Eclipse Sunscreen Lotion |
| 11:58 | NATIONAL NEWS: Fourth-of-July Weekend Festivities - NBC News report by John Dancy |
| 14:06 | NewsCenter 4 Weather, closing announcement, and program promos for Family Feud and Norm Crosby's Comedy Shop by Peggy Taylor |
| 14:52 | Long PSA photo montage by the Franciscan Communication Center of Los Angeles. Theme Music: "Teach Me To Die" |
| 17:51 | COMMERCIALS: Arrid XX Deodorant, KNBC PSA for the American Red Cross, Carpeteria Carpet Stores, Inglewood Park Mortuary and Cemetery, Paul Sahlin's Tiffanys and KNBC promo for Donahue |
| 19:56 | Musical KNBC station ID, copyright statement, and NAB Seal of Good Practice announcement by Peggy Taylor |
| 21:07 | LET US PRAY: sermonette delivered off-screen by Brother Carrol Pitts, Jr. minister of the Normandy Church of Christ |
| 24:15 | U.S. Navy Hymn film (no audio first 30 seconds), KNBC sign-off announcement by Peggy Taylor, and "America The Beautiful" film (cut short at end), very brief color bars, then carrier is cut |
NewsCenter 4 Sign-Off Edition
& KNBC Sign-Off
from Sunday, 27 September 1981
| Point of Time in Video | Description |
| 00:00 | KNBC Program Promo for News Confrence '81 |
| 00:10 | NewsCenter 4 Sign-Off Edition Headlines by Donald Rickles (not the famous comedian of that name, and probably not related to him) |
| 00:31 | LOCAL NEWS: Demonstrations at Diablo Nuclear Power Plant, Mistrial in the case of Jim Jones aide Larry Layton |
| 01:13 | NATIONAL NEWS: Controversy over the Reagan Administration's plans to sell spy planes to Saudi Arabia - NBC News report by Bob Kur |
| 03:23 | COMMERCIAL BREAK: ULCA Placement Center spot, NBC program promos for Bob Hope's Look At The New Fall Season and The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson: The 19th Anniversary, Jet Delivery Service (comic aviator in vacant field) |
| 04:28 | WORLD NEWS: Continuing tensions in Communist Poland - NBC News report by Fred Francis |
| 07:10 | COMMERCIAL BREAK: Ayds Appetite Suppression Candy, Anso IV Carpet at Carpeteria, "Get High On Yourself" Musical PSA with several celebs including Bob Hope, Jaclyn Smith and Henry Winkler |
| 09:14 | NATIONAL NEWS: Democrats rebuff President Reagan's tax cuts and budget plan - NBC News report by Andrea Mitchell |
| 11:33 | SPORTS:Nolan Ryan pitches 5th no-hitter, in NCAA football #1 USC wins, UCLA loses |
| 12:22 | NewsCenter 4 Weather, closing announcement, and brief KNBC program promos for News Conference '81 and Donahue by Donald Rickles |
| 13:05 | Long PSA photo montage by the Franciscan Communication Center of Los Angeles. Theme Music: "He Is Your Brother" |
| 15:45 | COMMERCIALS: Promo for the play A Lesson From Aloes at the Mark Taper Forum Music Center, an abbreviated "Get High On Yourself" PSA, Jet Delivery Service (comic aviator at airport), KNBC program promo for Entertainment Tonight, Job Service of California ad, and KNBC program promo for Fight Back! with David Horowitz |
| 17:49 | Musical KNBC station ID, copyright statement, and NAB Seal of Good Practice announcement by Donald Rickles |
| 19:00 | LET US PRAY: sermonette(?) delivered off-screen by Rev. Paul LaRue of the Emerson Unitarian Church in Canova Park |
| 22:08 | U.S. Navy Hymn film, KNBC sign-off announcement by Donald Rickles and "America The Beautiful" film (complete), then carrier is cut |
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.
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