TFTP Signs-Off for the Week: Station Sign-Off from WHEC/Rochester, NY (Mar. 1979)

Posted to YouTube by user 'robatsea2009'
Length - 5:30

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

This station sign-off from Rochester, New York, CBS affiliate WHEC begins with several great 1979 program promos for the CBS shows "M*A*S*H", "WKRP in Cincinnati", and "Lou Grant", and also for the animated special "The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe". Then an oddly-placed bumper for "The CBS Saturday Night Movies" is followed by a promo for the very obscure Brenda Vaccaro-starring program "Dear Detective". A CBS network ID precedes a few local Rochester commercials, including a droll and deadpan local commercial for a music store called House of Guitars.

Then the actual sign-off sequence begins. The ownership/technical voiceover is heard on a slide of the rainbow-striped "WHEC-TV 10" logo. The national anthem film follows, featuring some sort of a military brass band. Finally, another slide with the rainbow-striped "10" logo bids us "Good Night".

TFTP Signs-Off for the Week: Station Sign-Off from WLW/Chicago (Aug. 7, 1979)

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...

Posted to YouTube by user 'The Museum of Classic Chicago Television'

From Chicago ABC affiliate WLS comes this late-1970s station sign-off with a couple of elements that were not uncommon but also not universal in sign-off sequences. First is an FBI most-wanted bulletin, of the kind that still occasionally appears on local affiliates today, as a sort of public service element in the sign-off sequence. The other element, which was found in many sign-off (and also sign-on) sequences, is a religious thought-of-the-day type piece; stations including such segments sometimes created their own using local clergy and sometimes utilized syndicated national segments. WLS's is a locally-made one called "Reflections". These are followed by--and the sign-off sequence concluded with--the "Star-Spangled Banner".

TFTP Will Return After These Messages: Commercial Block from ABC (Dec. 30, 1978)

Posted to YouTube by user '80sCommercialVault'

Rundown of the commercials and promos in this block, by the original YouTube poster:
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1. Station ID
2. Promo for "The Saturday Night Movie: Help!"
3. Kentucky Fried Chicken
4. Promo for "AM" (With Regis Philbin. I posted this same promo in an earlier volume, amazing that I found another copy of it floating around out there)
5. Promo for "The Hollywood Squares"
6. "The Saturday Night Movie" Intro 
7. TV Spot for "Force 10 From Navarone"
8. Hills Bros. Coffee (With Steve Allen and Jayne Meadows)
9. Alpha Beta
10. Victoria Station
11. NAACP
12. "The Saturday Night Movie" Commercial Bumpers
13. Thomas' English Muffins (I detect creepy robotic children)
14. Milk (So good)
15. NyQuil
16. C.W. Post
17. "The Saturday Night Movie" Commercial Bumpers
18. Reunite (On ice, that's nice)
19. Olivia Newton John "Totally Hot" (Hawt)
20. Irish Mocha Mint from General Foods International Coffees (With Carol Lawrence)
21. Maxim Freeze Dried Coffee
22. "The Saturday Night Movie" Commercial Bumpers
23. TV Spot for "The Bermuda Triangle" (I think I now have to watch this, if only because it reminds me of "In Search Of...")
24. Yuban (LOL)
25. Vicks Inhaler
26. Cycle 1
27. "The Saturday Night Movie" Commercial Bumpers
28. Birds Eye Vegetables
29. TV Spot for "Force 10 From Navarone" (I've heard this movie is pretty bad, but it involves a bunch of famous people blowing up stuff during WWII. Think I'll have to watch it sometime)
30. Promo for "The Long Ships"
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