WUSA-TV 9, Washington DC Sign-off from circa 1986

WUSA-TV Channel 9, Washington DC
Sign-Off from circa 1988

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The CBS affiliate station for the Nation's Capital began life as WOIC-TV in January 1949. The following year CBS joins up with The Washington Post newspaper to purchase the station and changed the call letters to WTOP-TV. The Post buys out CBS's share of the station in 1954. In 1978, Post-Newsweek swaps Channel 9 for WWJ-TV 4 (now WDIV) in Detroit, owned by the Evening News Association, publishers of the Detroit News. The ENA changes Channel 9's call letters to WDVM-TV. Eight years later, in 1986, the ENA is purchased by the Gannett Company, publishers of USA Today, and on Independence Day the call letters were changed to WUSA-TV in honor of the newspaper published by the station's new owner.

Unfortunately, this recording is incomplete, beginning half-way through the sign-off announcement. The "Flag Evolution" SSB is used here as well as the WDVM-TV sign-off linked below.

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