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PGMEagle (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
I remember when channel 29 WTAF in Philly used the Evolution SSB at sign on and sign off back in the 80s
wmbrown6 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
Just curious if you (or anyone else) recall Channel 9 in Washington airing this "Flag Evolution SSB" in the 1970's when the station was still known as WTOP-TV.
cfoster81 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
I remember WDVM/WUSA in D.C. doing the "Flag Evolution" National Anthem througout the 80's into the early 90's. BTW, The great TV switch in Baltimore happened on New Year's day 1996 when WJZ-13 went from ABC to CBS, WBAL-11 went from CBS back to NBC and WMAR-2 went from NBC to ABC.
huggyface (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
It still has the "Flag Evolution" SSB...and the same technical info during the sign-off announcement, that you'll find here. They used the same SSB from 1970's thru 1996.
veluz330 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
Does anyone have the October 5, 1986 WRAL-TV Sign Off?
huggyface (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
Cool...I've never been north of the Philly area myself (in 2000), but maybe I'll get up to Boston sometime. Or go overseas.
wmbrown6 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
New York. But I was once to Boston for a week in the late 1980's . . .
huggyface (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
Wow...interesting history. Thanks. I don't know as much TV stuff about stations way up north (New England), but know more about what's in the mid-Atlantic and the "Deep South." Are you in NY, NJ, where?
huggyface (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
And WTVD ran the "Aim High America" SSB clip for awhile, produced by the USAF. I wasn't as big a fan of that one as I am the Flag Evolution one on 'RAL (the one we're commenting on here), but anyway...
wmbrown6 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
Again, these switches were in early 1995. WBZ-TV went from NBC to CBS, while WHDH-TV went the other way - and remain so to this day. (And with that, Channel 7, also taking into account its prior calls of WNAC and WNEV, had affiliations at one time or another with all three "major" networks - ABC, CBS and NBC.) |
