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Where the heck did this WUTR sign off come from?

Here's a rather interesting find in a commercial compilation. Despite joining the 24-Hour News craze in the early 1990's, WDAF-TV would still sign off some nights (likely one Saturday or Sunday a month) for regular matinence. This is one example from 1994, just months before being sold to New World and going to Fox, note that the sign-off plugs the station engineers union!

Surprise! It's two rare classic newscasts from WBKB!

Will someone please request bigO!plabax to upload all he has of this? I've been waiting to see any video of ABC's The Last Word for ages!

No, it was full on terminated. It's completely gone now. He would have to start over. But until then, Houston TV material on YT has become as scarce as markets like Ft. Myers or Madison. I'd completly forgotten that Florida's News Channel was a thing! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Tr3u_ND1bo

Any word on when HoustonTVNews/NewsStar2 will return to YT? I just he doesn't be like phillyvideofan and never returns!

Well, come midnight it looks like we're in for another government shutdown, I would assume the cable networks are going to stay live into the overnight hours and the weekend evenings again?

WSJV's news open from 1987 using TNI&NI+, a few months after this, the station got a new logo and the KXAS squares graphics: https://youtu.be/UVU4pio0PMs?t=672

I have a bad feeling that stevations will get terminated by NBCU within the next few months, go ahead and save his videos while you still can! https://www.youtube.com/user/stevations He had to stop posting videos after he lost his monetization privelages, and would like donations for new tapes and possibly a website to post them on!

I do. They carry Kids Click now, so if TBD goes away, Kids Click could go full-time.

I'm thinking CourtTV might end up being a replacement for Grit. They recently lost a lot of their content (mainly action shows and recent movies) and are now stuck airing mostly old westerns shows from the 50's & 60's (and not the biggies like Gunsmoke & Bonanza). Just look at their most recent schedule, looks like something you'd seen on the Luken networks: https://www.grittv.com/tv-schedule/

The pilot episode of the short lived CBS series TIme Express, starring Vincent Price, and aired on April 26, 1979. What makes this worth posting is that this was taped off KDFW, and has ID's voiced by Charlie Van Dyke in what may be his very first TV announcer job:

At last I'm back! I thought I would never be able to freturn after the update! At the end of this break is a WSJV ID using The News Image: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8lVVmAiK3o

About a half-hour of NBC Nightside from the early hours of May 8, 1994, about halfway in theres an update from KFOR using (I assume) an EQ Vance package:

An update from Channel 31 in Sacramento back in the beginning of it's news operation in 1988, I recognize this theme from many a commercials:

[quote name='Ramona']@hmaxhanson there's been a big uptick in fake signoff tapes lately...[/QUOTE] I've seen it too. I can't tell whether they were made by autistic kids or Engrish speaking Filipinos. Looks like WFSB had been using it's first TVbD look as early as summer 1983: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KK0iGnWTud0

KTIV concludes it's broadcast day on Christmas 2001, using a sign-off tape from the 1990s:

Yes it is. More specifically, this one:

Never thought I'd hear Get it On as a news theme! If you've got over 4 hours to kill, why don't you watch this morning aircheck of WTVC from December 18, 2006? It contains a complete episode of GMA (with a WTVC update at 25 minutes in using their cuts of Chroma Cues), Live With Regis & Kelly (with Sylvester Stalone and Bow-Wow), Martha Stewart (a Christmas themed show, she also shows us some of the crafts she made in jail!) and the first segment of The View (with Rosie O'Donell on the panel, and long before the constant cast turnover). Enjoy!

Here's something for The ID Junkies KTVT compilation, it's most of the evening edition of KTVT's Metroplex News from Memorial Day 1979. Fun fact, these usually at the halfway mark of their 9pm movie!

And here is the late news replay that preceded the sign-off, which usually aired back then between 2:00 and 3:00am!

(W)UTV Buffalo 29 is forced to wrap up it's broadcast day earlier than usual on this night in 1984, pre-emting the INN news:

Another full newscast from Ken Owen's (persumed) collection, this time it's WRTV's paid 10pm newscast on WTTV from February 28, 1994: BTW, does anyone really know for sure if that is Ken himself uploading the clips to TheClassicSports account?

From 28 years ago this week, clips of all 3 Austin TV newscasts, including video of KTBC using Non-Stop's News Watch:

How did this user get this before Michael Pannoni did? It's WBAL's sign-off routine from March 4, 1988, about halfway into their CBS era. It included a news headline summary, and a sermonette (whose intro and outro dated back to the first NBC era): Also on the tape was this promo & an ID with the CBSpirit graphics: