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TV Station Signing Off for the Night - With Soundtrack

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Pic #1 - with soundtrack:
On those nights Al, Marge and the cubs stay up watching TV late at night, this is the last thing for the night KSWS Channel 8 broadcasts after announcing, "Station KSWS in Roswell concludes another broadcast day".
As with most television stations back in the day, before they signed for the night, The Star Spangled Banner is played on the air, and then they sign off.

Pic #2 - with  soundtrack:
Until the station comes back on the air in the morning, all you will get with the TV left turned on during the night and tuned into that channel is a no signal static.

Pic #3 - with  soundtrack:
The TV is turned off and it is time for bed.

In the last pic:
Daddy Al has to call Clarence down for fidgeting during the playing of the National Anthem.
 

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Published: 3 years, 6 months ago
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nelson88
3 years, 6 months ago
This is awesome,moyo!^^
moyomongoose
3 years, 6 months ago
Thank you.

It was something I put together on a short whim
MrRoseLizard
3 years, 6 months ago
Not all TV stations signed off with the Star-Spangled Banner.  One local station played a relaxing musical version of the Lord's Prayer (You know: "Our Father, thou art in Heaven, hallowed be thy name...") while showing some nature scenes. (If you've ever watched "Reflections" on the Daystar TV network, you know what I mean.) And another one played "America the Beautiful" while showing various statues with the American flag.
moyomongoose
3 years, 6 months ago
True. There were some stations that did do differently.

I also remember there were those stations that stayed on all night and showed adult entertainment when it was late enough to assume that kids were already asleep for the night.
MrRoseLizard
3 years, 6 months ago
You might be right about that.  I remember this one local station showing episodes of Monty Python's Flying Circus every Saturday night at midnight.  They probably showed other adult entertainment shows as well, but I had to go to sleep at the time.
Snowfirechakat
3 years, 6 months ago
yeah my mom told me that was how they would end there day  not like nowadays ware it 24/7
TheGroundedAviator
3 years, 6 months ago
When did that multi-colored image with that annoying scream start?
moyomongoose
3 years, 6 months ago
Are you referring to Pic #2 which the static scene?
TheGroundedAviator
3 years, 6 months ago
Yeah.
moyomongoose
3 years, 6 months ago
That static would start the instant the station stopped broadcasting a signal for the night...That is until you turned the TV off, or find another channel that is still on the air.

Unlike the televisions now days that display a blue screen with no noise when there is no signal, those old televisions would make that static when there was no signal to receive on the channel it is tuned to.

Even when you flipped through channel settings looking for a station, each channel you would flip through that a station wasn't broadcasting on would have the same kind of static.
TheGroundedAviator
3 years, 6 months ago
Oh yeah I knew that. Just some had not static but some multi color image.
moyomongoose
3 years, 6 months ago
Those must be later sets I would not have known about.
TheGroundedAviator
3 years, 6 months ago
Here we are https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Test_card this was what I was talking about.
moyomongoose
3 years, 6 months ago
Oh that's a test pattern.

When that is displayed, the station is still on the air but not broadcasting any programs.
The test pattern is not something encrypted in the TV itself.  
That pattern is sent over the air from the TV station.
When those old TVs are not getting a signal what so ever, they static.

The static happens when the station goes off the air for the night and shuts down.
TheGroundedAviator
3 years, 6 months ago
Yeah I got that after reading! I'm too young for "off-air" stations. I think later on when not broadcasting programs but when they were still on they'd do this later on then when this is based.

Still a great resource for you!
moyomongoose
3 years, 6 months ago
I tried to find a video on channel surfing on an old television. Anyone who posted them seemed to have edited the static out of the video.

Back years ago, let's say you were in an area where the available TV stations were:
Channel 4,
Channel 6,
Channel 9 and
Channel 12...
...And there were no stations within signal range on the other channels.

If you flipped through the channels turning the channel dial a full 360 rotation, here is what you would get;
Channel 1 - static
Channel 2 - static
Channel 3 - static
Channel 4 - a television station
Channel 5 - static
Channel 6 - A television station
Channel 7 - static
Channel 8 - static
Channel 9 - a television station
Channel 10 -static
Channel 11 -static
Channel 12 - a television station
Channel 13 - static

When ever the TV was tuned to a channel that wasn't carrying a signal, the TV would display only static.
TheGroundedAviator
3 years, 6 months ago
You had that many channels then? We had 1! A second was in 1975 a year after color. 3 came in 1989 and after that things went a bit faster.
The 1968 sinking of the Wahine and the Moon landings made things more central, the latter had too be flown in from Australia and after NASA wiped their tapes they were much of what was left.
JamesTheOtter
3 years, 6 months ago
Something similar happened here in the UK way back when TV stations used to sign off around 11pm. But we used to play "God Save the Queen" instead.
moyomongoose
3 years, 6 months ago
Which is of course, UK's national anthem.

(or God Save the King when the reigning monarch is a king)
JamesTheOtter
3 years, 6 months ago
Yep. Here's an example:
https://youtu.be/lMfaIoJk8c4
moyomongoose
3 years, 6 months ago
That is the way it went.

Actually, oddly enough, an old American patriot song, My Country Tis of Thee, uses the same melody as God Save The Queen..
https://youtu.be/VKj7FLg3WVA?t=12
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