Main Page Updated Friday, 3 July 2009
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 infomercials, 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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| WGHP-TV FOX 8 High Point, NC Analog Sign-off 12 June 2009 Hands down, this is the best of the analog TV farewells from the Piedmont Triad of North Carolina, home of the Webmaster. Features the final five minutes or so of the FOX 8 10:00 News with Bob Buckley and Julie Luck. It begins with a segment featuring FOX 8's engineer Charles Layno on rescanning digital converter boxes. Following that is a trip down Channel 8's memory lane, the National Anthem, and the button-pushing ceremony at the transmitter site in Sophia, NC. This was recorded "over the air" using rabbit ears and a VCR. I've also included at the end a recording from cable of the final moments at the transmitter site, followed by the opening of that night's episode of "Seinfeld". |
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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 2008 by J. Alan Wall. All rights reserved.
Comments or questions? Email me at jalanwall(AT)tv-signoffs(DOT)com
