TFTP Signs-Off for the Week: Sign-Offs Through the Years - 1978 (KXAS/Ft. Worth-Dallas)

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

And throughout 2018, we are featuring "Sign-Offs Through the Years", as we go year-by-year with each successive week.

This sign-off from station KXAS in Ft. Worth-Dallas, Texas, from 1978, starts in the middle of a religious segment called "Day to Day" in which a woman is singing a hymn while a pianist accompanies her. It then shifts to the national anthem, but without any kind of film--the music simply plays over a slide of the KXAS logo. (This qualifies as the least elaborate and most bare-bones national anthem presentation we've seen here at TFTP.)

The KXAS logo is a spiffy number "5" with a star incorporated into the curve of the number (presumably an implied reference to Texas' motto as the "Lone Star state"), and with a smaller version of the late-1970s NBC "N" logo perched next to it. The logo stays on screen for the next portion of the sign-off, which is the ownership/technical voiceover. A brief on-screen message about the station's microwave transmitter link closes the sign-off.