KPTV Channel 12, Portland OR
Sign-Off from 1981

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Now I present what just has to be the shortest TV station sign-off piece ever. This one only runs a mere fourteen seconds, so I would call this one a "drive-by" sign-off. According to Peter Paltridge, creator and webmaster of the For Portlanders Only website (where this clip came from), this was the entire sign-off announcement. KPTV simply cut the carrier after this piece, there was no patriotic film of any kind played before or after it. KPTV originally signed on as Channel 27 in September 1952 as Oregon's first TV station as well as the planet's first commercial UHF-TV station. It became Channel 12 on 1 May 1957 when it merged with Portland's original Channel 12, KLOR-TV.

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