3.16.2018

TFTP Signs-Off for the Week: Sign-Offs Through the Years - 1980 (WVTV/Milwaukee)



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Length - 7:59

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.

The whole first half of this 1980 sign-off from Milwaukee independent station WVTV consists of late news delivered in voiceover on a slide reading "News Final". Many stations--of those that even had a news segment as part of their sign-off--used the same technique of simply having an announcer read news over a still slide.

The remainder of the sign-off has a short film of a hymn, the ownership/technical voiceover, and a curious treatment of the national anthem. An image of the American flag is superimposed on a chromakey image of the map of the United States, as the lyrics for the anthem appear below the map in "bouncing ball" style (so viewers who didn't know the words would be able to follow along?).

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