TFTP Signs-Off for the Week: Sign-Offs Through the Years - 1983 (WKRC/Cincinnati)

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Length - 3:35

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 1983 sign-off from Cincinnati station WKRC (the city's ABC affiliate at the time) is a rare one that does not feature the national anthem but does feature an alternate song, which here is "This is My Country". For all practical purposes, this film of "This is My Country", with its nationalistic lyrics and images of mythical American locations, serves as a functional equivalent to the national anthem.

"This is My Country" closes out the sign-off. Preceding it is the ownership/technical voiceover, which includes slides of the seals of the NAB Code and labor union for radio and TV broadcast engineers.