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HBO Sign-Off (1979)
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- Опубликовано: 16 янв 2015
- Here's a sign-off from HBO (Home Box Office), from back in the days when they did sign off (the pioneering cable TV channel switched to a 24-hour-a-day, 7-day-a-week schedule on December 28th 1981, after going 24 hours on weekends that September).
The sign-off consisted of an animated film with people all heading off to bed for the night, from all directions, accompanied by instrumental music that almost screamed '70's, down to the omnipresent conga drums and a low tom drum which was also the preferred percussion for some recordings of that decade. The HBO logo shown was the one where the O overshadowed the B in the logo (not taking its current shape until after going 24/7). Also, take a look (around the 0:58 mark) at the silhouette of a nighttime skyline with window lights going out one by one, which was reminiscent of the opening/closing of The Late Show on some CBS-owned stations in the 1960's, namely WCBS Channel 2 in New York City (as seen here • WCBS TV The Late Show ... ), and presumably Chicago's own WBBM Channel 2.
This clip includes:
End of the 1976 mystery spoof Murder by Death
Promo for the HBO On Location special with Martin Mull, spotlighting the Fernwood 2-Night / America 2-Night star's talents as a singer-songwriter (among his more famous compositions was "Dancing in the Nude" which was covered in a famous Benny Hill Show musical number, and "A Girl Named Johnny Cash" which was a minor country hit in 1970 for legendary singer Jane Morgan) (main voiceover by Les Marshak) (ending voiceover by ??)
HBO Sign-Off, followed in that order by what sounded like multiple super-speed touch-tone phone dialing, and finally EIA RS-189A color bars and 1 kHz tone.
This aired on local Chicago TV (via cable) early Friday, April 27th 1979 at about 12:35am.
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That sign off was really cute and retro. Wish some stations would sign off for a few hours of maintenance. We should all pull the plug on the world at night.
Too bad we can switch to streaming TV and videogames 😐
It's quite easy to have a redundant system and allow maintenance
One of the best animated TV sign offs in the world.
Definitely my favorite one. 🙂
Hear this and get a little teary eyed takes me back to a better time in my life , when a lot of my family members & some friend were still here
Sign offs on HBO? Well I guess this was before we had cable and HBO which was around 83. Cool old retro stuff like this is why I love RUclips.
I can remember being about 10 years old and my grandfather had HBO. It didn't even sign on until 3 pm.
I feel really old telling my younger cousins and kids about how TV used to go off the air at night seems all my conversations start off with "Why I remember when" like i'm a 90 year old xD
+Uchiha Madara lol.
You could remember this, but today all the Networks are 24/7 (it sucks!)
Television should do this again. The society of this law needs to return!
Such an aesthetically pleasing animation sign off
A tour-de-force from simpler times.
Extra trivia: the credits are the last few seconds of "Murder By Death".
Ss
That's how I recognized it.
That's why it looks familiar to me. It was a long time I have seen that movie!
Which is the movie Alec Guinness was shooting when he received the script for Star Wars.
These sign offs have captivated me for years. I’m not from this generation, but they give me a feeling of eerie calm (a true oxymoron, I know). Anyone else? And if so, why?
Hi, I am from the generation that saw these sign offs and I just discovered them here on RUclips. Not sure about eerie but calm yes. I suspect they created these sign offs to make you feel good and relaxed as the day ended. They were a little weird, but made you smile.
I don't know how to explain it, but TV sign offs like these, gives me a feeling of being happy and calm, with the reassurance that my favorite network or channel will come back in the morning ( or later in the day ), and also, a feeling of uncertainty and sadness, like you think the world is going to end, but it isn't.
@@tracymurray6840 sounds like a great analogy for life as well :) maybe that's why the feelings are so enduring!
I'm a little late to the party here, but I understand what you mean by it. To me it always felt as if the world sort of got smaller and collapsed in on itself when stations went off the air. We went from having signals being broadcast from hundreds or even thousands of miles away carried into our homes, to suddenly being very much thrust back down into our small little corner of the world.
Like "Okay the station is going off the air for the night, you're all on your own until then. Good luck and we'll see you on the other side" sort of vibe.
@@Omega21487 that perfectly captures how it made me feel. The thought of TV shutting down for the night and being truly -alone- until 6am is such a foreign concept in the 21st century. And a little unnerving!
This brings back memories,after HBO went off the air it was time to watch the Playboy Channel with a few lines running across it but the audio was clear.
Playboy channel did not exists back then.
Yeah i think the Playboy Channel first went on air in 1983 or 1984.
@@shirleysmith4510 The channel launch on November 1 1982. HBO was already a 24 hour channel!
I never knew HBO to sign off. I remember them in the 80’s as a 24/7 paid movie channel. We didn’t get HBO in the 70’s.
0:19 Coming back to this after the death of Martin Mull, may he rest in peace
Love the new HBO sign-off clip you guys just posted! So interesting comparing it to this, more familiar version.
Man, where did those 43 years go?
I know right. I remember only having 12 channels on cable and HBO was the best one. I would sit up late after my parents went to sleep and watch HBO until the sign off. Such a long time ago.
1:05 The bird is like, what in the world is going on?!?!?!?! XDDD
I'm glad I was born in 1994 after all of these networks went 24/7! Although I do think sign-on and sign-off bumpers are interesting, it does help that networks these days run 24/7 because what if I can't get back to sleep and wanna watch some TV and there's nothing on? What do I do then?!
I know some that signed off in 1994. My boyfriend was born in 1992, and he remembers television stations signing off every night on a couple channels. But yes, it is nice to for television stations to run 24/7-especially if you can't sleep at night.
I remember when FX started in 1994 and they would sign off at a certain time but whistling the national anthem. Now if anyone can find it please upload it. It is hilarious lol👍👍
Just found the FX sign off video lol
Read a book, surf the net, watch dvds, play music.
Watch RUclips
I first got HBO in central IL in 1977. I think it added $5/mo to my $9 monthly cable bill. In addition to these sign-offs they would show videos between the features which they started on the hour or half-hour. These were taken by a bicycle riding through Central Park.
Anyone else remember those?!
I remember them showing short films in between features- Hardware Wars being one of them. Plus, they had Stiller and Meara hosting a half-hour show about everything that was on HBO that month. Plus, Consumer Reports had a show as well. A totally different looking HBO back in those days!
~ Caretaker
i dig the animation. very cool!
Reminds me of classic Sesame Street.
I am sure I have seen something else from the animator before, perhaps a NFB film short from Canada?
its kind of crazy when you feel guilty about how old you are
I was only 3 in 1979 and only a year away from entering preschool. As I’m sitting here typing this I can’t help but wonder where the 43 years went. 🥴🤯
Those years just flew by.
Yes your right thoes tone was for the cable companies in later years they trigger the computer to run the local commercial on CNN and tnt and tbs and some other cable stations. Those was the good old days.
I've been hearing those tones on the MGM channel, it happens during commercials
The house needs an efficient lock. 1:13
Remember well
1:48, the annoying, ear-piercing color bars, that make me have insomnia, this is my nightmare.
Just nightmare fuel
A couple news channels on the firestick still have sign offs like this but not as common.
I like the music it's dope I wanna sample it
Me too! 🙂❤️
Ending voiceover was Fred Collins.
Thank you for posting this.
I second that, thank you. 🙂
0:49 THAT’S NO GOOD FOR YOU, HBO!
Never heard that long of a tone before thow
Me: Hey HBO What you added in the end HBO: I added a colorballs bumper
Me: oh and it's agreed
Lol! That dial tone sequence was overly played every hour and mostly on CNN and MTV if I barely recall. What was the purposes of the dial tones? Like a Cable TV signal ID or something?
The tones were signals used for switching sort of like a modem. They would signal the network to run a commercial, switch to different programming, stuff like that. Whatever was supposed to run next.
The dial tones were used to turn off transmitters. Like some type of "log-off password".
Yep, CBC had the same set-up for their relay of transmitters in Canada. Cable networks like MTV would use these so that it would automatically tell the cable operator to switch to local ads during the program break.
I think television stations should do this again. Maybe people would go to sleep at night, instead of watching television all night, or going out and getting into trouble. That's why God made night, so people would get some sleep.
Hard to believe, not that long ago... I mean, I can remember 79 pretty well. As for today, would somebody please switch off the internet at, let's say 10.30 :D
That's a mouthful! You are so very right!
***** I just stayed up watching the Movie Channel or the Playboy Channel
We had what they called Jones Intercable they didn't have Playboy, but they did have The Movie Channel. And they showed dirty movies after midnight on TMC and also Cinemax
*****
Things were interesting for me because my parents didn't want me hogging the tv so they got me my own cable converter in 1981(In November 1981). I was probably the only 15 year old in my high school with a cable box.
For us you had to watch a semi scrambled Playboy Channel with 3 lines on it but with sound. Our first Cable was from a company called Smyrna Cable.
What was the glass jug for?
Milk
@@MrT8599 Thanks
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The HBO channel is 24 hours
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0:48
Eric: Well, that’s all the time we have on the GoAnimate Movie Channel. Join us tomorrow for more movies. My work here is done, good night!
Brian: Good night!
HBO signed off? They didn't just replay Raid at Dieppe again?
Or "Eyes of Laura Mars"?
Andy Dunn Or Porkys II, though at this point an old fashioned test pattern would have a certain appeal.
525Lines I think HBO went to 24 hours 7 days a week in November or December 1981
HBO went 24 hours a day 7 days a week on December 24th 1981
@@davesmith6624 See the description
1:39 - 2:10 very creepy.
Well, what did you expect? 🙂
#HBO
1:01 watermark
Martin Mull was never funny
I thought he was. Check out the movie Serial or Mr. Mom.
You've obviously never seen Clue.
Seems like 2 lifetimes ago.