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Remember when TV would go off the air?
Posted on 4/26/26 at 8:34 pm
Posted on 4/26/26 at 8:34 pm
A simpler time when everyone should’ve been in bed. Star Spangled Banner to close it out. Better times to be alive.
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Posted on 4/26/26 at 8:35 pm to BabyTac
And watching TV channels sign on in the morning.
Posted on 4/26/26 at 8:37 pm to BabyTac
Posted on 4/26/26 at 8:38 pm to Bestbank Tiger
I don’t remember the sign on. Was too young. I’d see it now tho. Always up to see what Rita Garcia is wearing and ABC Houston has going on at 4am.
Posted on 4/26/26 at 8:41 pm to BabyTac
Madame Cleo and "Tiny Classified Ads" man were just licking their chops to get into that white noise static and dupe the late night couch potatoes into forking over their welfare checks.
Posted on 4/26/26 at 8:43 pm to BabyTac
I remember. After the broacast went off the air, the screen was this test pattern thing.
Posted on 4/26/26 at 8:45 pm to BabyTac
Posted on 4/26/26 at 8:49 pm to TheFonz
Yep. That's how you get Poltergeist in your shite.
Posted on 4/26/26 at 8:50 pm to Bestbank Tiger
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And watching TV channels sign on in the morning.
fricking farm report.
Posted on 4/26/26 at 8:54 pm to BabyTac
Every Saturday night it was the Great Svengoolie till around midnight then...dead air.
Posted on 4/26/26 at 8:56 pm to BabyTac
The two sign offs I remember had one featuring a combination of national songs by Elvis and the other featured the Star Spangled Banner against a back drop of B-52’s and the Apollo mission. When you fell asleep with the TV on past the sign off, that loud static is not something you ever forgot, either.
Posted on 4/26/26 at 8:56 pm to BabyTac
I hated when I fell asleep watching tv and the Star Spangled Banner would blast away and wake me up right before the tv logged off.
Posted on 4/26/26 at 9:00 pm to BabyTac
i would stay up and watch the test pattern. it was much better than the snow.
Posted on 4/26/26 at 9:04 pm to Disco Ball
I had seen early morning TV snow when I was a child because our parents got us older boys one of those 13’ black and white sets seconhand and my brother and I would fall asleep with the set on in our room. Then you’d wake up at like 3AM with the static noise and snow and have to get up and snap the set off.
The first test pattern I recall seeing was in 1977. Halloween fell on a Monday that year, so KTLA did their old monster movie marathon the preceding weekend. That Saturday was the first time my folks let me stay up until sign-off. I was 8 years old and watching an old Hammer Frankenstein flick, I think.
The first test pattern I recall seeing was in 1977. Halloween fell on a Monday that year, so KTLA did their old monster movie marathon the preceding weekend. That Saturday was the first time my folks let me stay up until sign-off. I was 8 years old and watching an old Hammer Frankenstein flick, I think.
Posted on 4/26/26 at 9:07 pm to Disco Ball
Morgus and Chopsley were much better at it.
Posted on 4/26/26 at 9:07 pm to BabyTac
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Star Spangled Banner
The SSB was more of a custom than anything and it was not a requirement. Someone recorded an old sign off for KTBS in Shreveport and they used Dixie instead.
Posted on 4/26/26 at 9:10 pm to BabyTac
Amazing there was a time in living memory where there was no realized market for programming of any kind for like 5 straight hours.
Posted on 4/26/26 at 9:15 pm to BabyTac
no love for her MILFy co-star Elita?
Posted on 4/26/26 at 9:15 pm to BabyTac
KNOE in Funroe used to sign off with Dixie.
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