Who on here is old enough to remember this? Television signing off for the night.

'high-tech' is when you figured out to add the tinfoil balls on the ends to pick up fuzzy-static channel #5.

I remember that.
I think i remember one station signing off with the music from "Gone with the wind" too.
I think the national anthem was widely common.
I was born in 1976, and while i have seen the other ones you mention since the 70's,80's, i dont remember them from that time.
I do remember when remote controls still had a wire attached to the tv though, or not having a remote control at all and just knobs to turn, and when the knob broke....pliers.lol

Like what?
Ghosts? Lost signals in space?

Like the shadow of an image. Never any audio. One channel beeps occasionally.

Sometimes I think a Cuban channel bounces.

This is no joke.

Several years ago when I had satellite I fell asleep with tv on. Every morning at 3:00 am that static would appear as the system resets.

When I fell asleep the volume was up higher than normal. When the static came on, it startled me and woke me up and I sat up. I looked across the room and saw a monkey sitting in front of my fridge just staring at it.

When I sat up, it looked back at me and had a surprised look on its face that I was looking at it. It immediately ran towards the static screen and faded out about half way to the screen.

I didn't sense any fear at all. I just thought the whole time, "wtf did I just see"?

The fridge the monkey was looking at, I had a friend airbrush Michael the archangel on one side and the devil on the other side.

It wasn't a dream because I got up to go pee and when I went back to sleep I was still thinking, wtf?

At least one sign off version had subliminal messages.

here's the one they played at signoff from KTBS in Shreveport, La

That is creepy. When it happens you need to say the name Jesus out loud, to make it go away.

Do you know what the messages were?

Thanks that's what I was wondering.

Nice! It is so nice to hear all the different sign offs and especially one that is close to my area.

Watch carefully as you can briefly see the words in this version.

just barely - 1982 here....

Remember the test pattern with the Indian in the feather headdress ??

It is very plausible that youtube videos have such subliminals embedded after they are uploaded.

and bombarding us with subliminal "They Live" previews :)

Absolutely!! We lived in a rural area in the mid-1950s and could get 4 stations with an outside antenna. I vividly remember being sent outside at night to turn the antenna in the proper direction for the show my parents wanted to watch and hearing through the open window the commands from inside..."a little bit more, a little bit more...STOP...right there, no, back a little...GOOD!!"

How about the old local station saying "It's 10pm, do you know where your kids are?"

I barely remember it, but found it on youtube.

lol I've never heard that one.

I remember that.

Anyone know what all those symbols and numbers mean?

I remember the Anthem sign off but before that why do i remember no Anthem with just a circle design in black and white but it had an Indian chief in the logo.

Here it is, damn im getting old.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian-head_test_pattern

It's 10:00 pm Do You know where Your Children Are?

I'm a 'kid', but I lived in the country growing-up and I totally remember there being no programming on several stations.., otherwise we got twilight zone reruns!

I'm a member of the Silent Generation. Not only am I old enough to remember that; I'm also old enough to remember this:


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