KABC sign-off 1982

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robatsea2009

15 жыл бұрын

Los Angeles station KABC ends its broadcast day in 1982, complete with the classic "High Flight" and beloved "Moog" rendition of the "Star Spangled Banner"

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@anilomd 13 жыл бұрын

The "moog" rendition of the national anthem is my favorite. I love the way it shows still photos of everyday Americans, civilian and military. It really was a different country then.

@ronniesanderson7922 2 жыл бұрын

Amen. No muslims in that clip.

@jasonburger3533 10 ай бұрын

@@ronniesanderson7922They were here, but not as prominent. The Iranian revolution was over 2 years earlier, the American hostages in the American embassy in Iran had been freed a year earlier. The United States was a diverse country with nearly 100 million less residents than currently. It was less than 20 years before the 9-11 attacks. Despite a divided government, we had less polarization and more bipartisanship for the good of the country and its citizens and sign-off editions that were like this, as infomercials were not yet legal and television stations would save electricity by going off the air for several hours instead of broadcasting just to fill air time as well. The United States population was about 234 million people in 1982, now about 332 million people, while world population was about 4.5 billion people and is now nearly double, at over 8 billion people estimated on the Earth. It was complex then, more complex currently.

@ursa41 7 жыл бұрын

Sign-off must have been on a Friday night; Saturday morning cartoons always began with "Super Friends"... THANK YOU FOR THE GREAT MEMORIES, Robatsea!!

@Timelytube1178 7 жыл бұрын

Sign offs are beautiful to hear and see

@jasontwitchell8167 3 жыл бұрын

I grew up in the San Fernando Valley, and have fond memories of TV stations signing off.

@vitareed5375 6 жыл бұрын

This is something else to watch. I'm old enough to remember sign offs.

@TheRenard10 6 жыл бұрын

Vita Reed me too, dude

@TSaylor2001 4 жыл бұрын

Vita Reed me to

@jasontwitchell8167 3 жыл бұрын

I was born in SoCal March 26th 1975. I always enjoyed watching KABC from the earliest I could remember, until I left California late August 2016. I miss TV station sign offs.

@TheRenard10 3 жыл бұрын

Where's your hometown now?

@jasontwitchell8167 3 жыл бұрын

@@TheRenard10 Roseburg Oregon

@thelegendfamily4836 14 жыл бұрын

Wow, does this back some memories from living in the LA area in the early '80s!!

@TheRenard10 3 жыл бұрын

Where you're living now?

@jamiewillkner8742 6 жыл бұрын

Friday night's were the best time to watch station sign offs.

@BillDerBerg 2 жыл бұрын

I was already 18 in 1982 and always out hanging around the rock clubs in Hollywood at night so I rarely saw KABC7s sign-off

@ChrisKrolak 6 жыл бұрын

My favorite "sign-off" was back in the late 70s - WMYK radio - K94 radio in Moyock, North Carolina. I would hear it from my dorm room in Norfolk, Va most every night at midnight. They would recite their technical credits to the main chorus of Fire on High by ELO and end with "Welcome to a new day"

@Dbusdriver71 12 жыл бұрын

I remember staying up late just to hear this; we were so much more a godly nation then. Seeing this reminds me of it. High praise for who posted this and saving for posterity for all of us.

@kingkold 8 ай бұрын

The nation was never a godly sonny boy.

@Dbusdriver71 8 ай бұрын

@@kingkold Away with you Troll, to North Korea you go. I'm not your 'sonny boy'. And IF you read my post correctly then 'much more a godly nation' would be understood and Trolls like yourself would understand the place 'The Law' holds. Its not there for non believers like yourself to point out but its the Spirit of the Law and where our Hearts are while we are here.

@kuljsm1t 7 жыл бұрын

This is the first ever sign off video I ever saw. I've got to give props to my parents for telling me that TV used to not be 24/7.

@ChristopherSobieniak 7 жыл бұрын

You missed out!

@MisterPolitical1 5 жыл бұрын

tv signoffs discontinued in the 1990's

@TheRenard10 5 жыл бұрын

@@MisterPolitical1 Some local stations had sign offs in the 2000's too.

@MisterPolitical1 5 жыл бұрын

@@TheRenard10 mostly in smaller cities

@TheLucidLuxray 3 жыл бұрын

@@TheRenard10 I remember WRGB signing on early in the morning in the early 2000s. I was about 9 then.

@japhyryder66 12 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for posting this video. Many a night I stayed up light during summer vacation watching tv. I've always loved "High Flight".

@Musicradio77Network 11 жыл бұрын

The music for this sign-off was "Forgotten Dreams" by Leroy Anderson, the same orchestra that did "Sleigh Ride" and "Syncopated Clock". They later used this song for WQEW in New York City on December 27th 1998 during its final night on the air where Stan Martin made its final announcement about their goodbyes before the station becomes "Radio Disney".

@nickandmikec 15 жыл бұрын

Thanks for posting this. I have the special DVD with this excellent Air Force short and the only reason I purchased it. Now if you only had the beginning sequence with Raymond Burr hosting The Psalms that used to broadcast nationwide and at KHJ-TV 9 in the 60s and 70s...I loved the opening music that sounded like something David Raksin composed while Raymond Burr sat under a tree with the Book of Psalms. Remember that broadcast?

@TheGlass50 14 жыл бұрын

@robatsea2009 Thank you sooo much for posting this! This is my childhood. Great memories of me staying up after my parents fell asleep and watching T.V until sign off..What an amazing poem, music and narration..Thanx!

@AmericanSoldierSioux1969 Жыл бұрын

I was just a kid in the 70's when this was out. Waaaay before the dreaded all-night "infomercials" ever existed! Used to look forward to watching this on Friday nights or early Saturday morning when we got permission from our parents to stay up all night, no school til Monday. But sometimes I snuck out of bed at night to watch this if I couldn't sleep. Patriotic then....Patriotic now! The days before 9/11 and mostly All-America only, nothing else!! You'll NEVER EVER EVER GET THOSE DAYS BACK!!! EVER!!!!!!!

@TheHauntedMouth 12 жыл бұрын

This was broadcast the year I was born. I had no idea that TV stations still signed off as late as the 1980's... this is the first time I've ever seen one of these. I think by the time I was old enough to stay up late, they no longer existed.

@jasonburger3533 10 ай бұрын

KABC-TV Channel 7 LosAngeles, the second largest television market in the United States after New York City, signed off at night until about 1990. KCET-TV Channel 28 Los Angeles, one of three PBS stations in the Los Angeles region, would sign off at least once a week at night through the 2000s. Some television stations on the higher-number UHF band still sign off at night and keep continuous color bars and a humming sound in place instead of television snow. Since the 2009 mandated conversion of most broadcast television from analog to digital, there are over 100, but under 200 television stations available in the Los Angeles region with an indoor antenna or outdoor antenna, especially of electrically amplified. Many of those are foreign-language channels, but some are English-language digital subchannels and some do go off the air late at night currently. They sometimes play the national anthem, but most that sign-off just go to color bars.

@wmbrown6 14 жыл бұрын

The version of "Forgotten Dreams" (as heard over Len Beardsley's sign-off here) that I remember, is the one on this link: watch?v=VMDMSQWgBQ0 This one was used by sister station WABC-TV in New York for the close of their Friday evening editions of "Eyewitness News" through 1977. As you can see, there are some differences in the recordings . . .

@erickpaolod.santos3719 4 жыл бұрын

OETA (PBS Stations from Oklahoma) used the high flight poem film during sign off since 1970's, 80's and 90's

@Gillespie003 15 жыл бұрын

This has always been my favorite footage and audio of 'HIGH FLIGHT' . . . Gillespie 003

@harrisonpolancopolanco9973 4 жыл бұрын

OETA Used it

@P00katube 2 жыл бұрын

@@harrisonpolancopolanco9973 So did KTUL between the Moog SSB and the KTUL Television Code/ Sign-Off Announcement.

@Ricky2400 13 жыл бұрын

I sure remember this. As the announcement was for "Super Friends" at 7 am, it had to have been late Friday night/early Saturday morning. The ABC Television facility/KABC was on Prospect & Talmadge in L.A. The lot was also home to "American Bandstand" "Mr. Belvedere" "General hospital" and scores of sitcoms/game shows

@jasonburger3533 10 ай бұрын

The address of KABC-TV through the year 2000 was 4151 Prospect Avenue, Los Angeles. The moved to 500 Circle Seven Drive in Glendale in 2000, which was 2 years after they had done a 1998 redoing of their news set. They moved that when they changed locations.

@icy-5icy-519 Жыл бұрын

This poem was written on the back of a letter home to mom. He never made it back. Love you mom! Pray for me, as his mom did.

@gidzmobug2323 Жыл бұрын

He died in battle?

@icy-5icy-519 Жыл бұрын

@@gidzmobug2323 as far as I know. God love him and his family.

@icy-5icy-519 Жыл бұрын

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@icy-5icy-519 Жыл бұрын

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@wolfstarchaser 12 жыл бұрын

For the curious, the aircraft shown is a Northrop T-38 Talon, used as a flight trainer by the US Air Force (among others) to this day.

@Musicradio77Network 11 ай бұрын

1:41 is the “High Flight” short which is the same film that it was later shown on KDKA-TV on 6/12/09 during the “Late Show With David Letterman” where the station signed off its analog broadcast forever. 3:59 is the Moog SSB which was the same film that it was shown on WNYE-TV (channel 25) in NYC back in the 1990’s with an updated version combining with this original with some minor tweaks.

@ir10031981 7 жыл бұрын

KCOP also used the Moog national anthem in the early '80s, surprisingly KABC still used it in 1989!

@Musicradio77Network 2 жыл бұрын

And so did WNYE-TV in NYC used an updated version of the Moog SSB with stills of people from NYC, and it was used right up until the late 1990’s and early 2000’s.

@bossradio930 9 ай бұрын

@10031981 I assume KLCS-TV (Los Angeles PBS) played the Moog SSB in the late 1970s-80s at 9:00pm before signing off.

@jasonburger3533 10 ай бұрын

No, sign-offs on KABC-TV Channel 7 Los Angeles in the 1980s were every night, but this particular sign-off from 1982 had to be from a Friday night-Saturday morning, as "Superfriends" was a popular Saturday morning cartoon nationally on the ABC television network during the 1970s and 1980s

@DePiperSr 10 жыл бұрын

Very cool, I was a kid living in LA at this time.

@denny906 9 жыл бұрын

I remember this and I also remember when only channels 11 and 5 ran all night movies, Channel 11's LOS ANGELES MOVIES AT NIGHT and Channel 5's MOVIES 'TILL DAWN.

@denny906 9 жыл бұрын

+marissa pierce correction. LOS ANGELES AT NIGHT MOVIES

@zuludawn9932 5 жыл бұрын

LMAO i remember channel 5 and 11 would show horror movies and Martial arts flicks and weird ass sci fi films.

@judacia 4 жыл бұрын

the first time that I noticed High Flight being used was in an episode of Mad Men (Pete Campbell goes to a lady's apartment), and I think that it was similar in that somebody recited the poem while a plane was flying.

@monoceros1222 15 жыл бұрын

Thanks a lot for posting this!!! Loved it!! Also-Thought for once I'd be the first to post a comment!

@InfinitriCreatives 8 жыл бұрын

For me announcers should say this "thought of the day" when playing sign-off notices: "We're about to go off the air once again. DON'T WATCH TV IN THE DARK, AND READ TV GUIDE, so that your color bars experience in front of the magic box will be more colorful!" It's because during dark sign-off hours you get nothing in front of the tube without holding (and reading) a copy of the latest TV Guide issue. This was how TV guide remind the viewers to "not watch TV in the dark" ('90s slogan of the magazine) - by letting the stations to air their spot before playing the sign-off notice; so that viewers can pick-up more entertainment and information from the paper even after stations go off.

@ChristopherSobieniak 7 жыл бұрын

I suppose for "thought of the day" to be done, they would have to bring back those announcers again, full time, just to do it every night in realtime. We don't really see that anymore in American broadcasting these days.

@wilsonribeirotuber6870 3 жыл бұрын

very beautiful ending with american anthem congratulations

@RyanSchweitzer77 11 жыл бұрын

There's also KNDX (KXND's sister station), and KBMY & KMCY (those 2 are owned by WDAY). All three also sign off for the night as well (but still transmit their ID throughout the night, as a still for KBMY/KMCY, and a still with animated background for KNDX/KXND). And KXMB (KXMC's sister station) signs off on Saturday & Sunday nights, but keeps it transmitter on and simulcasts its weather subchannel instead of totally going off the air. Otherwise, CBS' "Up to the Minute" airs overnight M-F.

@525Lines 10 жыл бұрын

Notice the swiggly line animation at the beginning. Those guys did a lot of commercials. I wonder if they do the red bull commercials, cuz they look the same.

@nanlisa 11 жыл бұрын

They certainly did. They would sign off overnight and not get back on again until after sunrise. Nowadays, we live in a 24/7 society. And TV stations are now on 24/7.

@warlaker 10 жыл бұрын

This is a Hollywood station..even the sign-offs have to be dramatic.

@ChristopherSobieniak 8 жыл бұрын

+warlaker Most large market stations were this way.

@wolfstarchaser 12 жыл бұрын

That's what I get for speaking up before I see the whole thing. The *first* plane shown is the Talon. Other visible aircraft include: F-4 Phantom II (in Thunderbirds colors), C-130 Hercules, C-5 Galaxy, C-141 (all USAF cargo planes), various civilian aircraft, KC-135 (from inside @4:40, refueling an F-105 Thunderchief), B-52 bomber lauching what appears to be an X-15, but I can't at this time confirm that.

@stevensiferd7104 Жыл бұрын

A 7 a.m. sign-on seems kind of late for a Los Angeles O&O, even on a Saturday morning.

@XxKilleredxX 12 жыл бұрын

Am I the only one that's reminded of the Enclave Radio from Fallout 3 whenever I watch this?

@redlion517 5 жыл бұрын

The version of the anthem in this sign-off is the same one used in "Local 58".

@wmbrown6 11 жыл бұрын

Up to 1982, sister station WABC-TV in New York also signed off (and on) with the "Moog SSB." One of the last uses of this film on WABC can be seen on this sign-off from early Sunday, June 20, 1982: watch?v=p3ZLAC_dyAI

@khangphamchannel016 3 жыл бұрын

Nah it still being used during the 80s there is a 1989 sign off from this channel that still featured the same version as this video.

@wmbrown6 8 жыл бұрын

KABC appears to have been the only one of ABC's O&O's which, after revamping their circular test pattern some time in the 1960's (albeit with the 'abc circle' logo taking up much of the TP in the center), kept it in more or less constant service up to the point where they went full 24/7 at the dawn of the '90's. (Sister stations WABC-TV New York, WLS-TV Chicago and KGO-TV San Francisco all gutted their versions of the '60's TP with color circular TP's during the 1970's and '80's.) Don't know when WXYZ-TV Detroit ceased using circular TP's in favor of electronic color bars.

@TomBarrister 4 жыл бұрын

I believe that the announcer is then-station manager John Severino.

@armorybrunotjr.3204 4 жыл бұрын

No. That is the late, great Len Beardsley.

@NewsGraphicsElevator 12 жыл бұрын

Stations that still sign off include KHOU, KVRR, WDAZ , WTKR, KXND, WAGM, KSFY, KTXA, WOAY, KXMC and WDAY.

@dumbbo1 11 жыл бұрын

I never understood why stations would put up a card telling viewers the tech details of their transmitters.

@keithleeuwen877 7 жыл бұрын

KOOL !

@robatsea2009 15 жыл бұрын

it's not one that I am familiar with myself but it definitely sounds like something fascinating to see

@wmbrown6 14 жыл бұрын

Let me further elaborate: The recording used for KABC's sign-offs was Leroy Anderson's original 1954 version; while the one WABC used for their Friday evening and weekend night "EWN" closes was Anderson's 1959 re-recording.

12 жыл бұрын

@RCaIabraro My thoughts exactly. As it was played on Moog :D

@TheRenard10 5 жыл бұрын

What Len Beardsley didn't mention, was that KABC began it's first broadcast under the former call letters KECA, named after Earle C. Anthony. We sincerely hope you've enjoyed our broadcasts, and invite you to send your comments about our programming and operations.

@BoundaryShift 12 жыл бұрын

Anyone reminded of Poltergeist?

12 жыл бұрын

Makes me wondering if there is a link for this version of the anthem.

@JeffDeWitt 9 жыл бұрын

I wonder how many kids (and young adults) have never seen a TV station sign off like this... and whatever happened to the sign off sermonette?

@gidzmobug2323 4 жыл бұрын

Not all stations had that. KABC did not; they usually just had a signoff edition of the news.

@alyssamurray6306 11 жыл бұрын

I wish TV networks would sign-off again. The reason being so kids can go to bed earlier, and it saves energy and prevents global warming. The infomercials played at night are boring and stupid.

@Reborn8303 14 жыл бұрын

There here

@RCaIabraro 12 жыл бұрын

This must be the "A Clockwork Orange" version of The Star Spangled Banner.

@atlboy82 11 жыл бұрын

Is this what you are looking for, /watch?v=228m3S88L6E? It was only put up recently and has only 72 views but that I'm quite sure that is Raymond Burr and someone is narrating the Psalms. Anyway hope this helped.

@gidzmobug2323 8 жыл бұрын

@basmati, wonder if Len Beardsley is still there?

@wmbrown6 8 жыл бұрын

Sorry, he's long since passed away.

@gidzmobug2323 8 жыл бұрын

wmbrown6 😔 thanks. I had not known that.

@margaretgreen-stanford9500 7 жыл бұрын

He was replaced by another announcer, Dean Weber, then Roger Carroll.

@bossradio930 5 жыл бұрын

Len passed September 29, 2010 in Morrow Bay, California at the age of 92. He was a pioneer of early television and hosted a program called, “This is Jazz” in Seattle, Washington. Not sure when he retired from KABC-TV, but had a long, distinguished career. 2017 would have been his 100th birthday.

@Xan81 10 жыл бұрын

They're heeeeere....

@disneydanny2 7 жыл бұрын

arranged by the late Mort Garson

@TheGlass50 4 жыл бұрын

Danny Eyheralde Thank you so much for that information Danny.

@TheGlass50 4 жыл бұрын

Wow... He has such an eclectic music Resume. I’m going to assume that was him playing the Moog synthesizer. I didn’t know he co-wrote Our Day Will Come. Once again, much thanks Danny. You made my day.

@disneydanny2 4 жыл бұрын

@@TheGlass50 your welcome/

@MJBYouTubeNetwork 4 жыл бұрын

.....of the entire staff of KABC ........TV! LOL

@TheGlass50 4 жыл бұрын

Miss Jennifer Banks Love that.

@richartrod 2 жыл бұрын

Yup, Len Beardsley was very creative in his sign-off announcements with his poetic cadence. He was already a veteran announcer at KABC by the time this aired.

@freedomanbar584 Жыл бұрын

4:00 NICKELODEON 2000-2009

@clarkjohnson6545 5 жыл бұрын

3:59

@fingerjousting 11 жыл бұрын

Why so much aviation imagery on television?

@BillDerBerg 2 жыл бұрын

patriotic images during the cold war

@jpowell180 12 жыл бұрын

does anyone know if any television stations today still run "High Flight" & the Star Spangled Banner, or do they all just show those crappy informercials all night long?

@MrBastilleDay 10 жыл бұрын

Take a tip, take a lesson, you'll never win by messin..with the people at the freakin' FCC.

@jpowell180 11 жыл бұрын

Yeah, then it probably *is* just crappy infomercials these days....I can't imagine who actually watches them and calls the 800#'s enough for those companies to find it profitable to air them!