WHEC TV sign-off 1979

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WHEC TV sign-off 1979

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robatsea2009

15 жыл бұрын

Several program promos and commercials lead into this 1979 sign-off for Rochester's WHEC Television

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@kstarpictures 14 жыл бұрын

That "House Of Guitars" Ad seems like something out of the 90's! That dry sarcastic voice, etc...

@hf6150 5 күн бұрын

No matter how many times he says it, I refuse to believe he's the Easter Bunny. No. Simply no.

@daviddavenport1485 6 жыл бұрын

That Ted Cohen Economy Office Furniture ad makes me want to visit his fine establishment. And no wonder, with all the great merchandise he has on sale.

@robatsea2009 14 жыл бұрын

"Hustle", with Burt Reynolds and Catherine Deneuve

@pauljr.harrington1905 4 жыл бұрын

This was likely from Tuesday, March 27, 1979, since they gave a promo for the first airing of _The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe_ which was for Sunday, a promo for _M•A•S•H, WKRP in Cincinnati, and Lou Grant_ on Monday, and the promo for the series premiere of _Dear Detective_ on Wednesday (which was actually the same day the Three Mile Island accident occured), but skipped Tuesday.

@Lovejazz01 6 жыл бұрын

Maybe they should do this to all internet and WI-Fi devices every night at 12 midnight so we can all get a good night sleep like back in the 60 and 70’s lol !

@LindaMerchant-pm8vn Жыл бұрын

Nostalgic

@luisreyes1963 4 ай бұрын

I'm sure the ISP's are willing to do that. 😕

@retronewfoundland 9 жыл бұрын

I can finally say I have the mystery solved. WHEC ran the CBS Saturday Movie on a delay (they ran it at 11:30 pm on April 1, 1979). What they ran at 9 pm the night before (on March 31, 1979) was a different movie - "The Liquidator" (1968). More info in this PDF: fultonhistory.com/Newspaper%2011/Geneva%20NY%20Finger%20Lake%20Times/Geneva%20NY%20Finger%20Lake%20Times%201979%20Mar%201979/Geneva%20NY%20Finger%20Lake%20Times%201979%20Mar%201979%20-%200967.pdf

@johnpat3622 Жыл бұрын

My guess is that WHEC showed the Saturday Night Movie on delay because they probably broadcast a Rochester Americans AHL hockey game that night.

@pussycat41 10 жыл бұрын

I take it WHEC-TV aired the CBS Saturday Movie at 11:30 pm that night, (after their 11 pm newscast)being that they signed off after it.

@johnpat3622 5 жыл бұрын

Just guessing here, but they probably preempted the movie to broadcast a Rochester Americans AHL hockey game...I seem to remember WHEC showing some of their games on Saturday nights during the '80s when I lived in Eastern Ontario..

@smittykins 11 жыл бұрын

I miss the old 10 logo.

@robatsea2009 12 жыл бұрын

@geekgirltv2011 I think it was quite common to see the identical national anthem films (which were frequently produced elsewhere and acquired for use by the stations) on different television stations and networks

@CelesteK 13 жыл бұрын

This was about 10 years before the great network swap of 1989. I remember it well because I was annoyed that it happened. :(

@tomhallick419 3 жыл бұрын

NBA Basketball, Friday at 11:30PM. 41 years ago, the NBA had an awful TV presence.

@gallery7596 10 жыл бұрын

Nice to hear Warren Deremus again, but I came here looking for Gregory The Grave Walker.

@timbrown5840 7 жыл бұрын

me too

@christinalavancher2707 4 жыл бұрын

I luved Frightening Flickers and luved seeing Gregory the gravewalker every Saturday night

@gallery7596 4 жыл бұрын

@@christinalavancher2707 Yes, and often they were showing the same movies that had already run Saturday afternoons on the Channel 10 "Monster Movie." Stuff like "The Creature From The Black Lagoon," "Not Of This Earth," "Attack Of The Crab Monsters", "13 Ghosts" and "House On Haunted Hill." Saw them all for the first time on Channel 10.

@dannymcelroy4046 Ай бұрын

I’m from Rochester NY! 😃

@alyssamurray6306 11 жыл бұрын

John, TV stations signing off at night at least encourages kids to go to bed earlier. Some people work night shifts.

@xreddragonx 13 жыл бұрын

@kstarpictures Definitely. I too have noticed it has a style quite ahead of its time. Oddly enough, I remember watching that ad during the early 90s, and it didn't look "dated" at that time...so there you go.

@kmart3697 Жыл бұрын

WHEC now NBC

@kurtkauffman4326 Жыл бұрын

Since 8/13/1989.

@Hogstuff 8 жыл бұрын

Could $300 really buy you a car in 1979? Times sure have changed...

@Sammy4549 5 жыл бұрын

I'm pretty sure that's just a down payment.

@brandondickie3456 2 жыл бұрын

@@Sammy4549 I think if you adjust it for inflation then it seems more believable, you could buy a nice sport car or a 300-400 horsepower high end trim level muscle car around 1968-1972 or so (Dodge Charger/Dodge Challenger 426 hemi) for about $2000, but compared to $300 that’s pretty big)

@itsmattehlers 5 жыл бұрын

I need Warren Doremus to sign off every night before I go to bed.

@LindaMerchant-pm8vn Жыл бұрын

Or George noory

@kengeorgejones6855 9 жыл бұрын

Dear Detective? That's a little sexist. It's tough to buy Brenda Vacarro as a tough detective. No wonder it didn't last long.

@kurtkauffman4326 Жыл бұрын

Now an NBC affiliate since 8/13/1989.

@Thunderbirds501 2 жыл бұрын

1:08 Ah yes, the late Don Robertson on that CBS ID.

@MugenFanatic2017 4 жыл бұрын

TV 10!

@JesseL85719 11 жыл бұрын

And the Paramount logo was cut off at the beginning of the sign-off.

@JoeFLash41 11 жыл бұрын

W Hickson Electric Company

@loretano 12 жыл бұрын

thank god he moved. That corner of Jay and State has changed a lot since then

@dootuss83 4 жыл бұрын

Looks like the building it used to be in was torn down according to Google Maps.

@TrentJordan3198 7 жыл бұрын

Did WHEC used to sign off back in the early 70's with "America the Beautiful"?

@mannbradmusic 14 жыл бұрын

Very nice! Plus, for the courtesy of you and others who view this, the words of our national anthem were written by Francis Scott Key in the aftermath of the British attack on Fort McHenry during the War of 1812 upon seeing the American flag still waving over the fort that morning and below are Mr. Key's words if you want to read them while listening or sing along as you stand with your hand over your heart. The anthem begins at the 3:31 mark. O say, can you see, by the dawn's early light, what so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming, whose broad stripes and bright stars, through the perilous fight, o'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming? And the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air, gave proof through the night that our flag was still there. O say, does that Star-Spangled Banner yet wave o'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?

@WildDieWoodard 14 жыл бұрын

What movie were those end credits for at the top of the clip?

@robatsea2009 14 жыл бұрын

@Crowflug Typically from old Betamax tapes, both ones I've found as well as recordings sent by friends...you never know when these things will turn up.

@wenbaosun9489 5 жыл бұрын

From the last Gannett (this segment became Tegna) days.

@looneytunes9000 4 жыл бұрын

Wenbao Sun Tegna didn’t come into place until Gannett spun off the broadcast division from the newspaper print division in 2015. The broadcast division was renamed Tegna(Gannett spelled backwards). Tegna has been operating my CBS and my My Network TV affiliates (WWL-TV, CBS since 1957 sign on) and WUPL-TV(licensed to Slidell, Louisiana but also serves New Orleans) and Satellite station WBXN-CD 18 (Licensed to New Orleans as a satellite station of Ch.54, My Network TV/alternate CBS affiliate since Belo’s 2007 purchase) and 50% owner of News Watch 15 since Gannett/Tegna’s 2013 purchase of Belo. The latter is 50% owned by Cox Cable of New Orleans. Tegna just recently purchased KTBU of Houston from the Spanish Broadcasting System just two months ago on March 24th of 2020 for $15 million dollars. Making it a sister to KHOU and flipping from Spanish to English language programming three days later on March 27th with programming from the Quest Network (making it a quest O&O) while changing the legal license name to KHOU’s license name KHOU-TV, inc. and moving operations to KHOU’S facilities giving Tegna a more big presence in Texas after the 2019 KWES-TV purchase.

@17z483 2 жыл бұрын

WXXI Rochester opening August 10, 1999

@galencrowson2208 5 жыл бұрын

Well, we used to hear a lot of these sign-offs with the national anthem or "America the beautiful" being played (especially with the bands or choirs of our armed forces) then they went 24-hr mode, I mean the sign-offs themselves are less annoying. [what happened?]

@LetArtsLive 12 жыл бұрын

wish they did this now instead of info mercials

@tonysdzepp 11 жыл бұрын

Does anyone remember Frightening Flicka on Sat. Nites at 11:30 ?

@gallery7596 4 жыл бұрын

*Gregory The Grave Walker:* "Now a tale for you I'll weave, a story of terror you won't believe."

@tonyeckelberger6492 4 жыл бұрын

@@roadshow69 Same here

@keithleeuwen877 6 жыл бұрын

GREAT !

@paullarue2010 8 жыл бұрын

Doesn't the Easter bunny know, that Easter is already over?

@gladfan1989 5 жыл бұрын

Apparently not.

@jmommay0362 5 жыл бұрын

He’s too high to know

@vinylguru1968 6 жыл бұрын

Switched to ch10.2 the metv network

@hollypietrzak5214 8 жыл бұрын

Do you know if there was test pattern at the end of this video?

@robatsea2009 8 жыл бұрын

+holly pietrzak No, there wasn't one.

@flatcapman 6 жыл бұрын

DENIED Well at least there wasn't that cursed SNOW

@hollypietrzak5214 4 жыл бұрын

Lloyd Duff it sounds like there's wind at the begnning of the video?

@TrentJordan3198 11 жыл бұрын

Is the "good night" slide at the end from the mid 1970's?

@HarenchiFairy 6 жыл бұрын

Yes

@RareMusicalGems 11 жыл бұрын

Wow, what an idiotic thing to say 1518karen. Only a head-up-their-ass Conservative would make a TV sign-off video into a political issue. My Mom didn't stay at home, she worked so we wouldn't end up on the STREET after my father died. Typical Conservative, b&w, only only one right way type of thinking. I'm a "liberal" and I work damn hard every day and support myself, and I believe everyone is equal, but Conservatives don't get that. If you're different, you're "bad" is the Conservative mantra.

@dootuss83 4 жыл бұрын

Further proof of how ignorant Conservatives truly are. And narrow minded at that.

@JHollowayNetwork 5 жыл бұрын

did WHEC TV10 do localized version of CBS campaigns in the mid-1980s?

@DVSyoutube 3 жыл бұрын

No. WHEC-TV swapped affiliations in 1989 with WROC-TV. Currently, WHEC-TV is an NBC affiliate for Rochester, meanwhile CBS is on WROC-TV after 1989.

@kurtkauffman4326 Жыл бұрын

@@DVSyoutube Has been doing it since.

@PhilMoskowitz 4 ай бұрын

Saturday night movies? I guess CBS classic lineup that night were over.

@essvee86 8 жыл бұрын

I wouldn't want Ted Cohen to read my kids any bedtime stories!

@chrishenniker5944 8 жыл бұрын

Why's that, was he a nonce?

@essvee86 8 жыл бұрын

No, he is so off-key.

@tkaye2 Жыл бұрын

He looks like a seal coming up for air.

@CelesteKTheNewWaveRevue 7 жыл бұрын

Was this SSB performed by the USMC?

@facebook51ify 4 жыл бұрын

Yes! The 49 star flag was lowered and retired.

@smittykins 11 жыл бұрын

Both, actually. :)

@majoinerful 11 жыл бұрын

May I ask what's wrong with Canada? I'm American.

@luisreyes1963 4 ай бұрын

Nothing. We're slightly jealous over their national health care & gun control laws, that's all. 😅

@hf6150 5 күн бұрын

Well, they've had no Stanley Cup winners in 30 years. 🙂

@1518karen 13 жыл бұрын

Those were the days when mom stayed home with the kids, we all ate dinner together, and TV signed off so folks could get a good night's sleep and GO TO WORK in the morning. Yes, I know, some waa waa liberal with have a comment on this.

@dootuss83 3 жыл бұрын

And yet, you a Conservative, seem to be the one who's whining lol.

@alyssamurray6306 11 жыл бұрын

Which 10 logo? The 10 logo at 2:46 or the 10 logo at 5:07?

@TrentJordan3198 7 жыл бұрын

The logo at 5:07. Is it from around the mid 1970's?

@JesseL85719 11 жыл бұрын

Politics never works with TV sign-offs.