TFTP Signs-Off for the Week: Station Sign-Off from KTBS/Shreveport, LA (1975)

Each Friday afternoon, TFTP signs-off for the week by featuring a classic station sign-off segment for your enjoyment and to bid a farewell until Monday...

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From KTBS-TV, an ABC affiliate in Shreveport, Louisiana, this station sign-off includes a couple of elements not always seen in sign-offs: First, there is a National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) Television Code seal, which simply meant that the station subscribed (as almost all stations did) to the NAB code, which was a common-sense list of practices for broadcasting. Many, if not most, stations included this seal in their sign-off segment, although it's not always included in the sign-off clips that surface on YouTube.

Secondly, and more rare, is the use here of "Dixieland" rather than "The Star-Spangled Banner" as the sign-off song. Stations would sometimes include in a sign-off segment a second song in addition to the national anthem, but rarely in place of it. (I don't believe that there was any requirement by stations to use "The Star-Spangled Banner" when signing off.) Having the voiceover technical and ownership information over the end part of the sign-off film, as done here, is also less common; usually it was done over a slide of some kind (often the station's call letters).