I've never thought about it that way. Back then, there was also a 6-hour long show about color bars. Sometimes, the 6-hour long show was about static while other times, the 6-hour long show was about color bars. I guess it depends on the channel.
Pax Humana No offense, but you are very rude. It's okay that you thought of it as battles, but if some people want to view it as a T.V. show, then let them. Just because people have a different perspective than you does not make them morons. It just means they're different.
Scythal You made a really good point. Very rarely do I see anyone watching T.V. at 3 in the morning, even the people that are up at that time. It might just be where I live, though.
Exactly. I think that's honestly how life was meant to be. Nowadays, knowing people are offended by this song shows how complicated they choose to make everything our country is about, a trigger for many. All I know is when I was little if I heard this playing late at night, I knew I was up wayyyyy too late. I was very young back then. I miss those days, my childhood memories aside, I miss everything about how the world was for us, through our eyes back then. Life is simple but when you add people, they mess it up.
@@eileenfuentes6975 Life isn't meant to be anything. We're SUPPOSED to be running most of the day, chasing elk to death and foraging for roots. Everything else is just some shit that happened. And that's the problem withe very successive generation of mankind since the hunter-gather days: Shit keeps happening at a faster and faster pace. Even by the days of this piece of 20th century nostalgia, life was moving beyond a natural pace. Today, it moves so fast that none of us have a common cultural connection to each other anymore. We're all nations unto ourselves with a language that others only have a passing understanding of. There are no more top 40 hits we all share, nor common tv events. There's just this internet, an open chasm into which we all scream in vain, a void which absolutes stares back.
@@matthewlawton9241 We are falling prey to a tech moving too fast for it's own good. What's the end game? 1000 years later and yes our tech will be space age but where will we be as people? Will we be abandoned shells of people not caring except for nothing but ourselves and what tech gives? Will we die out like advanced cultures in the past too advanced for their own good? Advancement is good but it must be tampered with wisdom to aviod what happened in the past otherwise we are doomed to repeat it
Dude!!! This is the best description I have read of how this makes me feel. Thank you internet stranger for validating my feelings about this! I have a boyfriend who is younger and I asked him “do you remember when tv stations used to play the national anthem and turn off?” And he shook his head no and that’s how I ended up here.
I feel the same! I always likened it to going to the " dark side of the moon", it was such a feeling of loneliness. I always thought I was crazy for feeling that!
The video reminds him of his youth, where he was watching TV on a saturday night until signoff instead of binge drinking at a frat house like most of his peers. he convinced himself he was "getting ahead" of those losers and would soon be rich and handsomely rewarded for focusing on his future and not the short term pleasures of college parties and binge drinking. now he realizes it was all for naught. he never landed the 6 figure job despite his best efforts, and realizes he would be in the exact same place today if he'd just let loose in college/ highschool and had more fun. But he's realized his error and no longer strives to be rich, or better than anyone else, just happy in his own life and current situation. he's torn between regretting parts of his youth, yet being satisfied with his current outlook on life. This video simply reminds him of a time that he had a different vision for how his life would turn out; assuming the only way he would be happy at his current age is if he was wealthy with a posh job.
That's right.I have a little bit different spin as I am getting ready to turn 42 and this evokes the same memories in me.Those that stayed in school and straight to college and other things have mostly driven themselves into the ground or into multiple dui's,& if they had kids at 20 to 25 mostly the families are broken long ago,& many now have child support along with a kid or two from a new marriage.I have a few debts , not amounting to much,rent but have no mortgage & live fairly cozy with money to spend on fishing & such things if I want,I buy cars being smart & learned a lot mechanically so I rarely ever pay to have work done.I own a motor Home for camping & fishing & can live comfortably in it for very reasonable rates year round at various local spots if I want to or financially its best for awhile and save money etc.No child support no alimony and I only come home to an empty house when I want to.I have enough going for myself that I can have companionship when I want.I am pretty much in control of my destiny.Not that many who worked hard straight through aren't also & many ahead of the game more,they don't owe money on their drivers license or have 2 strikes on their financial aid so:(or they never had to apply for financial aid to get through college) some own a reasonable house or even deal in small local properties & real estate,but I notice most do not.And beyond measuring life that way, I feel like I have gained invaluable lessons and insights into life & things you can't put a price on.I didn't exactly be irresponsible and have fun while others worked hard, but in the end I did allow my behaviour to slip & myself to be irresponsible & I let issues at school & at home get the best of me & rather than "be a good boy" like I had always been, I let myself get angry especially at other kids & at teachers etc., & become bitter & resentful,even at my dad & stuff.I regret that now & so forgive anyone in school who might have hurt me and I love my hometown and my local area & love the kids I went to school with & cherish all the memories.And so forgive & am understanding for mom and dad & all the adults & wish I had been more understanding & gotten off my high horse more.But I forgive myself too & I understand I was hurting,hurt by treatment I got at school ,& especially by feeling ignored,especially at home but at school & stuff too.Kind of neglected.Like what ma and dad & the other adults had going was always so important,always came first. But the lessons learned are more valuable than money & I find myself in a good position now to work hard and be ambitious for awhile if I choose,& I see how it didn't really pay off for so many of the kids who worked really hard and were so dedicated.Life,money,the economy,jobs and careers,sports...they can all be so tricky...real estate,relationships and family...maybe some of those families just pushed their kids too hard too fast.I always disapproved of what we used to call "preppy" type lifestyle or "yuppy" like in the 80's valuing money & social standing and all.And that usually meant mistreating and demeaning people you perceived as being beneath you.That just was not the formula for happiness.I knew then that it would not be.I don't wish ill on any of those guys though, not anymore.Bitterness is not a good thing to hold onto.Its way more healthy to forgive & to let go of such feelings and resentments.
I just explained to my daughter that I didn't have Internet, cell phones, only 4 TV stations and they signed off at 1:00am. Found this - great memories.
After the Test Pattern with that shrill tone, the station would cut off the broadcast transmission and you'd get a loud static. Several times I would fall asleep with the TV on. If the trumpets didn't wake you up, and the shrill tone still didn't wake you, the explosion of static noise would. There was no remote back then so you'd have to wake yourself up enough to go stagger over to the TV and find the off button. Once off, then you'd realize that there is now no light in the room for you to find your way back to a bed. After walking like a comical blind person and still stubbing your toe on something mysterious, you'd finally make it back to the safety of your bed. I'm so glad things have improved!!! And ironically I don't even watch TV any more. Power to the internet!!!!
I think static is louder than both the national anthem trumpets and the color bar tones, so it would wake me up easier. They say they put a loud tone to encourage sleeping viewers to turn off their T.V., but the static noise would be the most likely to wake up the sleeping viewers in reality. This especially goes for heavy sleepers. Tones and trumpets could wake people up, though. I'm impressed that you actually had the ability to make it back to bed.
I fucking HATE when people fall asleep while watching a television! If you're falling asleep while watching a television, then fucking be respectful of others and turn the damn thing off!
It depends Caden on the broadcaster as some played 1000hz while others played a lower 400hz tone. Some stations kept the bars on all night while others switched to static
It’s an end of the world vibe. Always gave the feel that if the nukes launched, this is the stock footage the network would run until the electricity went out. Like maybe not even on purpose. Like an old baked in system that auto plays it when all else fails to say farewell because some dystopian ass manager told them to set that shit up in like 1968.
Soon, unknownKnight, very soon. The end is near and my rendezvous with the great void is ever closer. Dare I look in the mirror? I fear the Grim Reaper may be looking back.
it not be the fear of demise that scares a human, but the fear of the everlasting effect on their eternal soul that brings dread to the heart of the beholder, fear not if you are Righteous and just in your life, then you have no reason to fear the kiss of death (just wanted to get near to or as deep as you did)
I remember this when I was a kid... it meant time for bed and turn off the TV. Sometimes the color bars woke me up. I miss it sometimes but coming back to videos brought back memories
@VINNY LAURENCE BEEP HARVEY??? OK he's vocal and I cant listion to his tone for too long a time as He screws with my hearing but scared?? In my case?? Not really. He sounds like a background noise you would hear if you lived on another planet.
From July 4 1960 and on that day the 50 star flag was raised for the very first time. On July 3 1960 the day before the 49 star flag was lowered for the very last time.
and a year before that the 48 star flag (who lived a long life starting in 1912, seeing it's country through the great depression, two world wars and finally seeing the prosperous 1950s as well) was lowered for the last time in 1959
When I use to secretly stay up late in the 80s to watch kung fu theater I would always stand up when the station would play the anthem before going off the air.
I wish it would. Although I'm 56 and I usually sign off much earlier! 😂Their should be an app the connects to your streaming device that kicks in with a timer to play the national anthem.
I was just now telling my kids about TV channels signing off at midnight when I was a kid. I told them we'd go to RUclips and see if I could find a video to show them. Thanks for posting this!
Id always find myself asleep in dads lazy chair as a boyafter watching this and then snow. Those were the good ole dayz i miss them like crazy. That was when america still had a pair. Fond memories are all i see.😢
Anyone remember this is what use to be on right before our TV would sign off..I was very young and barely remembered..my sister reminded me..our world was alot more peaceful and USA was well respected.throwback moment. GOD BLESS 🇺🇸
Being born in the 2000s, I only saw a TV sign off once. I don’t know the station, but the show ended, and color bars came on, then static. I think what made it better was that is was when there was still analog TV, and it was on a CRT
megaroll.... if you were born in the 2000s you did NOT see a TV sign off what's so ever. I'm sorry and I'm not trying to be rude but you didn't see it live
@@santos0521 nah, i disagree with you. I was born in 1996 but i remember an NBC channel signing off. It was like that for like two hours and after that nothing but infomercials were on till their "regularly scheduled broadcasting" was back on.
@WesevWesev I'm sorry to tell you but if you were born in 1996 you didn't see it live either. I'm pretty sure they stopped doing TV sign offs in 1996 so you were to young to see it live
@@santos0521 it was probably a recording, u right. I do remember the color bars and static quite vividly cause it scared the piss out of me as a little kid watching tv at night😂
I'm a colour bars fan and even personalise it to myself and an Actor. Think of the tone as less a monotone and think of it as 2 people singing in higher and lower tone like an opera with a rainbow screen. Also listion to the tone at a low volume and you will adjust to it..400hz is easy to do 1000hz a bit longer. Also pick test patterns with music played and they are even easier to get into. Static? NO I find it creepy and worse gives me a nasty migraine..at any volume
@crazycoollady1999 It's hard to describe how Colour bars make me feel but if differs on what tone is played. 1000hz I feel a strong feeling of love for another and 400hz I cant help but feel Proud hearing it and self confident The same way you would feel if you were proud of something good you did. The bars are simply a stage for a tone performance.
Play this back as slow as you can. Watch the lettering as they fade and roll in, and as it fades and rolls out. You might see something, a bit shocking. Sorry, if this revelation wrecks anything for you. I'm truly sorry those behind it had to be like this.
I was born in 85. I think when I was VERY young I saw one of these. There will never be another generation to see a t.v station "signing off". In fact, we may soon see the first generation to not know what T.V is at the rate we are going lol.
TV's not going away anytime soon at all. It's just going to continue to evolve in how it's used. Which it kind of already has been throughout its time in existence.
There were not enough reruns to run constantly. I used to get up to see the opening of my favourite channel, WTTV, on weekends. Saturday started with five hours of cartoons. Technology was not that good back then, but it seemed like things were better socially, well where I lived anyway. It was the 1980s when I last saw this.
TV WENT OFF THE AIR at around midnight.....but......the fun did not. I would grab my trusty portable transistor radio and listen to the "LARRY GLICK SHOW" on WBZ radio Boston..... weekends, school vacations and summer vacations. Glick was the Johnny Carson of radio. The show went from like 11pm to 5am. WBZ had a massive transmitter in Boston. It was so powerful that when I would visit my grandmother in Indiana I could pick up the station at night.
When I was a kid, I had a routine every Saturday morning. I'd get up early, to catch the National Anthem on a local channel. Right after it came on the air, it would always show a 15 minute commercial for a now defunct beverage product called, "Super Sip" (It was the first juice pouch bag drink with a straw. It was only on the market for about 4-6 months). Then, right after that, was the intro to Underdog! The screen went from the test pattern to, "There's No Need to Fear...." in less then two minutes!
Man, I wish they still did this. Just something about it is so mysterious. Like as the tone is playing with the test pattern, there's a lot of drama going on during the night.
Thats the perfect way to describe it. There absolutely was something mysterious about it. Then when it would cut to static and give the room a weird glow. Makes me nostalgic for my childhood.
One of my most fearsome and hated childhood memories is when this would happen. I was always a weirdo night owl and would sneak up and watch tv and when this would happen I was like what am I supposed to do now?
I remember some nights, especially on weekends I would find things to keep me occupied. Like read some scary books, draw/color or play a handheld video game. I've become full-on night owl as an adult and wasn't actually quite so much as a child, but I did experiment with it sometimes out of curiosity, since I found that I enjoyed the quiet and solitude of that time of day.
Radio, CKLW Windsor / Detroit. I lived near Cleveland and some of the stations stayed on till 2:00 Am and then came back on at 5:30 to 6:00 AM with the morning news.
In this national anthem, no one was what it seems to feature this incredible national anthem and the sign-off test card. Whatever any national station in Disneyverse ceased broadcasting, it will always be.
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My parents told me these used to exist on TV and I found that hard to believe, but now I've finally seen it. It's amazing just how much country, government, and patriotism used to be so infused with common life back then, though I suppose it's this way today (or a lot worse) just by other means. Regardless, these were simpler times where TV slots were limited, so things that truly mattered were squeezed in. People took things more seriously. Sometimes less truly is more, versus today where not only is there 24-hour TV but 24/7 internet entertainment and so much more, making people value it all so much less.
It's a good thing that we now have the internet, so that I can watch this at 5am while unable to sleep. I couldn't imagine going back to life without 24hr a day entertainment options.
Last time I checked, Fox News played the national anthem to mark the point when they stop repeating the previous night's shows and start a new day of programming (4am ET Mon-Fri, and 6am ET Saturday and Sunday)
This reminds me that there was that time when my middle school friends and I all stood around and talked about the finale of M*A*S*H, because we had all seen it, because that was what you watched after dinner. And we all cried. In school.
This is the opening scene for the movie Poltergeist. I remember this used to fall asleep with the TV going when I was a teenager in early 1980's. I had a 13" TV in my room had a earphone plug I got a long cord would wake up with the national anthem playing. I remember the color bars would go up then the transmitter would shut down and just get white noise.
I recently just watched Poltergeist and you absolutely hit my nostalgia bone. I remember late night tv sign-offs, I had a timer set on my TV because I couldn’t fall asleep in a silent room.
According to the source I found, this was performed in 1961 by the Naval Academy Band, under the direction of Lt. Commander Max Corrick. It was in the rotation of most TV stations in the 1960's.
these were the days when things were much better. after the television went off about 11:30 or 12 midnight you went to sleep. stores closed at 9 p.m. and were closed on Sunday. bars shut down at 1 a.m. we were a country that was not as fractured as we are today.
Exoress Delivers 9pm? Wow, what convenience! They used to shut at 5pm in Australia! And 1pm on Saturday! I miss this too. You felt like you had some quiet time and breathing space from what has now become relentless commercialism. BTW, was watching this because I was watching old Aussie TV sign-offs.
Much better? Going to sleep by midnight out of boredom doesn't sound that great. Stores closing down is an inconvenience. Thank fuck for the 24-hour supermarkets these days.
Wow I was born in the mid-80s but I think until like the early 90s they did this. I remember in my old apartment in the projects in Harlem I would often fall asleep in my living room and when I’d wake up, this would be on. I think it’d be like 3am or something. I knew I was either awake too late or way too early. Memories…..
What was most annoying was when you woke up 3:30 in the morning with that piercing tone and the color bars coming from your set AND you had to get up out of bed and turn off the tv with the knob on the front of the set, i.e no remote control. 😂
Antenna TV is the only channel I know of that still plays the national anthem. Every morning at 3:45 central, only it doesn't sign off and goes back to The Jeffersons.
not quite that was white static for Poltergeist. SMPTE Colour bars is closer to Close encounters of the 3rd kind since the tone sounds Alien like. Poltergeist never used SMPTE Colour bars but the bars have been parodied Mario style showing Boos gathering around as the tone sounds like boo-ish smiling and the younger ones are wobbling mid flight like excited for something. I would say Children's TV shown early in the morning.
Listen kids my generation was the last to go through this with television channels signing off at midnight, You kids got it easy and wouldn't last a year in the 1980's
SO DO I My older brothers still rag on me for watching test patterns as a kid but I was only 6 years old and I didn't know what I was looking at. Plus the 400hz tone hypnotised me
Here in the UK the BBC would cease broadcasting at around 11:30pm or so, and would sign off with a photograph of the Queen and our anthem ("God Save the Queen")
Billy Heaning I can imagine being a kid and waking up in the middle of the night to that beeping sound isn't fun, it's the entire sign off for me, there is just something eerie about it.
Billy Heaning I thought I was the only one who was terrified of sign-offs. The loud tone of the test screen, the static, the silent blank screen, and everything else that came after the sign-off scares me.
MASH late night reruns used to tell me it was time for bed. However, if I was awake for this, I knew I was up super late and needed to get my butt to sleep.
Back in my days on weekends when I was living in The Bronx, Chs. 2, 4 & 7 would go off the air around 3:30a and don’t come back on until 5:30a. In the 80s, some sports channels would broadcast from 6:00p to 1:00a on weeknights, 12n-1a on weekends, then go off the air. This was prior to informercials (paid programming) took over TV stations that normally go off the air. The shortest airtime was MSG Network in the 80s. Only Movie channels ran 24/7 showing G rated movies or animation cartoons in the mornings, PG rated movies in the afternoons, R rated movies in the evenings and adult R, NC-17 or not rated (fully explicit content) movies after midnight. HBO, Showtime and WHT were the first movie channels before TMC, MAX, STARZ, FLIX & extra channels came along.
the Test Pattern came on when they were getting ready for the morning usually music played in the 90's. Typically Easy listioning to whatever was top of the pops back in the day
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This wasn't a sign off....it was the beginning of that 6 hour long show about static. Some people just don't get the Abstract TV genre.
SepherStar Those types of shows are seriously underrated.
I've never thought about it that way. Back then, there was also a 6-hour long show about color bars. Sometimes, the 6-hour long show was about static while other times, the 6-hour long show was about color bars. I guess it depends on the channel.
Taydra Brookshire the 6 hour candle cove marathon
SepherStar, you moron, it wasn't a show about static, it was the daily six hour battles that the static had with the fuzz!
Pax Humana No offense, but you are very rude. It's okay that you thought of it as battles, but if some people want to view it as a T.V. show, then let them. Just because people have a different perspective than you does not make them morons. It just means they're different.
Dad: it’s time for bed
Kid: You don’t tell me to go to bed, the national anthem does
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🤣🤣🤣🤣Where is your patriotism u little brat
I can't imagine a channel these days not running 24/7.
PC Hound That would fucking suck lol
Russian channels ;)
And if I had my own country it also wouldn't run 24/7 because who watches TV at 3am?
Back then, many people can't imagine a channel running 24/7. It's amazing how much we changed over the decades.
Scythal You made a really good point. Very rarely do I see anyone watching T.V. at 3 in the morning, even the people that are up at that time. It might just be where I live, though.
How about, gasp, people that come home after working the graveyard shift, Scythal?
Funny, we used to have this, now days it's just endless advertisements.
I would argue that the hours of ads is disturbingly more American
@@ElCajondePermann what's the difference tbh
Matías Cuevas wow dude so funny
@@ElCajondePermann Zoomer*
I wonder if we subconsciously listen and as we sleep and wake up low key wanting whatever the fuck they advertised
and that concludes our broadcast day
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This and “It’s 10 PM, do you know where your children are?” Brings it all back. Simpler times.
Exactly. I think that's honestly how life was meant to be. Nowadays, knowing people are offended by this song shows how complicated they choose to make everything our country is about, a trigger for many. All I know is when I was little if I heard this playing late at night, I knew I was up wayyyyy too late. I was very young back then. I miss those days, my childhood memories aside, I miss everything about how the world was for us, through our eyes back then. Life is simple but when you add people, they mess it up.
@@eileenfuentes6975 Life isn't meant to be anything. We're SUPPOSED to be running most of the day, chasing elk to death and foraging for roots. Everything else is just some shit that happened.
And that's the problem withe very successive generation of mankind since the hunter-gather days: Shit keeps happening at a faster and faster pace. Even by the days of this piece of 20th century nostalgia, life was moving beyond a natural pace. Today, it moves so fast that none of us have a common cultural connection to each other anymore. We're all nations unto ourselves with a language that others only have a passing understanding of. There are no more top 40 hits we all share, nor common tv events. There's just this internet, an open chasm into which we all scream in vain, a void which absolutes stares back.
@@matthewlawton9241 We are falling prey to a tech moving too fast for it's own good. What's the end game? 1000 years later and yes our tech will be space age but where will we be as people? Will we be abandoned shells of people not caring except for nothing but ourselves and what tech gives? Will we die out like advanced cultures in the past too advanced for their own good? Advancement is good but it must be tampered with wisdom to aviod what happened in the past otherwise we are doomed to repeat it
@@eileenfuentes6975i love this song
@@matthewlawton9241damn, well said
There was always a strange loneliness that accompanied this. To this day, I can still feel it watching this.
Dude!!! This is the best description I have read of how this makes me feel. Thank you internet stranger for validating my feelings about this! I have a boyfriend who is younger and I asked him “do you remember when tv stations used to play the national anthem and turn off?” And he shook his head no and that’s how I ended up here.
Good ol analog horror
I feel the same! I always likened it to going to the " dark side of the moon", it was such a feeling of loneliness. I always thought I was crazy for feeling that!
@@dontplayinthestreet I felt the same way!
Wow! It's nice to know there's a kindred soul somewhere in the world
WOW that seems like 100 years ago!! That was the signal to go to sleep hahaha
Jesse Rothbeind I know it always worked it made me feel so good
the 400hz one calmed me down but 1000hz made me more alert then good like an alarm bell
Yep!
@@flatcapman shut up you robot ass bitch no one asked
TV sign offs. What memories they invoke of my misspent youth during late Summer vacation nights.
Cant tell if trolling or not
He's trolling LIFE!
What the fuck does any of your nonsensical rambling have to do with the video, Indrid Cold?
The video reminds him of his youth, where he was watching TV on a saturday night until signoff instead of binge drinking at a frat house like most of his peers. he convinced himself he was "getting ahead" of those losers and would soon be rich and handsomely rewarded for focusing on his future and not the short term pleasures of college parties and binge drinking.
now he realizes it was all for naught. he never landed the 6 figure job despite his best efforts, and realizes he would be in the exact same place today if he'd just let loose in college/ highschool and had more fun. But he's realized his error and no longer strives to be rich, or better than anyone else, just happy in his own life and current situation.
he's torn between regretting parts of his youth, yet being satisfied with his current outlook on life. This video simply reminds him of a time that he had a different vision for how his life would turn out; assuming the only way he would be happy at his current age is if he was wealthy with a posh job.
That's right.I have a little bit different spin as I am getting ready to turn 42 and this evokes the same memories in me.Those that stayed in school and straight to college and other things have mostly driven themselves into the ground or into multiple dui's,& if they had kids at 20 to 25 mostly the families are broken long ago,& many now have child support along with a kid or two from a new marriage.I have a few debts , not amounting to much,rent but have no mortgage & live fairly cozy with money to spend on fishing & such things if I want,I buy cars being smart & learned a lot mechanically so I rarely ever pay to have work done.I own a motor Home for camping & fishing & can live comfortably in it for very reasonable rates year round at various local spots if I want to or financially its best for awhile and save money etc.No child support no alimony and I only come home to an empty house when I want to.I have enough going for myself that I can have companionship when I want.I am pretty much in control of my destiny.Not that many who worked hard straight through aren't also & many ahead of the game more,they don't owe money on their drivers license or have 2 strikes on their financial aid so:(or they never had to apply for financial aid to get through college) some own a reasonable house or even deal in small local properties & real estate,but I notice most do not.And beyond measuring life that way, I feel like I have gained invaluable lessons and insights into life & things you can't put a price on.I didn't exactly be irresponsible and have fun while others worked hard, but in the end I did allow my behaviour to slip & myself to be irresponsible & I let issues at school & at home get the best of me & rather than "be a good boy" like I had always been, I let myself get angry especially at other kids & at teachers etc., & become bitter & resentful,even at my dad & stuff.I regret that now & so forgive anyone in school who might have hurt me and I love my hometown and my local area & love the kids I went to school with & cherish all the memories.And so forgive & am understanding for mom and dad & all the adults & wish I had been more understanding & gotten off my high horse more.But I forgive myself too & I understand I was hurting,hurt by treatment I got at school ,& especially by feeling ignored,especially at home but at school & stuff too.Kind of neglected.Like what ma and dad & the other adults had going was always so important,always came first. But the lessons learned are more valuable than money & I find myself in a good position now to work hard and be ambitious for awhile if I choose,& I see how it didn't really pay off for so many of the kids who worked really hard and were so dedicated.Life,money,the economy,jobs and careers,sports...they can all be so tricky...real estate,relationships and family...maybe some of those families just pushed their kids too hard too fast.I always disapproved of what we used to call "preppy" type lifestyle or "yuppy" like in the 80's valuing money & social standing and all.And that usually meant mistreating and demeaning people you perceived as being beneath you.That just was not the formula for happiness.I knew then that it would not be.I don't wish ill on any of those guys though, not anymore.Bitterness is not a good thing to hold onto.Its way more healthy to forgive & to let go of such feelings and resentments.
I just explained to my daughter that I didn't have Internet, cell phones, only 4 TV stations and they signed off at 1:00am. Found this - great memories.
After the Test Pattern with that shrill tone, the station would cut off the broadcast transmission and you'd get a loud static.
Several times I would fall asleep with the TV on. If the trumpets didn't wake you up, and the shrill tone still didn't wake you, the explosion of static noise would. There was no remote back then so you'd have to wake yourself up enough to go stagger over to the TV and find the off button. Once off, then you'd realize that there is now no light in the room for you to find your way back to a bed. After walking like a comical blind person and still stubbing your toe on something mysterious, you'd finally make it back to the safety of your bed. I'm so glad things have improved!!! And ironically I don't even watch TV any more. Power to the internet!!!!
I think static is louder than both the national anthem trumpets and the color bar tones, so it would wake me up easier. They say they put a loud tone to encourage sleeping viewers to turn off their T.V., but the static noise would be the most likely to wake up the sleeping viewers in reality. This especially goes for heavy sleepers. Tones and trumpets could wake people up, though. I'm impressed that you actually had the ability to make it back to bed.
I fucking HATE when people fall asleep while watching a television! If you're falling asleep while watching a television, then fucking be respectful of others and turn the damn thing off!
You had to learn to be quick enough to get back to bed by the light of that little white shringing dot in the middle of the screen! Lol
It depends Caden on the broadcaster as some played 1000hz while others played a lower 400hz tone. Some stations kept the bars on all night while others switched to static
Gosh - you nailed it!!
Am I the only one who got chills while seeing this in the middle of the night alone?
Travis, I would be terrified seeing this in the middle of the day with people around me. I can only imagine the middle of the night alone.
I was so young but I got chills thinking what would happen if my parents knew I was up that late to see it!!! Kidding aside, yes!
Nor really I did it all the time as a kid. Static scared me way more and came across as Hostile. Color bars are hypnotic
It’s an end of the world vibe. Always gave the feel that if the nukes launched, this is the stock footage the network would run until the electricity went out. Like maybe not even on purpose. Like an old baked in system that auto plays it when all else fails to say farewell because some dystopian ass manager told them to set that shit up in like 1968.
The 1000hz sound always scared the shit outta me
So this is why the anthem played on the TV in toy story 2
I was alive when channels did this. My how the decades have passed.
oh, you're dead now, dang it I had so many questions
Soon, unknownKnight, very soon. The end is near and my rendezvous with the great void is ever closer. Dare I look in the mirror? I fear the Grim Reaper may be looking back.
it not be the fear of demise that scares a human, but the fear of the everlasting effect on their eternal soul that brings dread to the heart of the beholder, fear not if you are Righteous and just in your life, then you have no reason to fear the kiss of death (just wanted to get near to or as deep as you did)
....it was still like this in the early 2000s....but it does feel like a long time ago by now
Really? Because I'd be too scared for this as a kid and I'm a young adult and it still scared me
I remember this when I was a kid... it meant time for bed and turn off the TV. Sometimes the color bars woke me up. I miss it sometimes but coming back to videos brought back memories
I was a kid in the 70s, my brother and I would stay up all night watching horror films. Then this would come on.
we woke you? Sorry about that. I wonder which tone woke you up? the high 1000hz showcased here or the lower 400hz?
@@flatcapman all i know being 6 years old, hearing a high pitch noise it was gave me chills during the late 80's
@VINNY LAURENCE BEEP HARVEY??? OK he's vocal and I cant listion to his tone for too long a time as He screws with my hearing but scared?? In my case?? Not really. He sounds like a background noise you would hear if you lived on another planet.
@@MrRJMGREEN I remember watching night of the living dead and of course chiller theater. Remember that hand! "Chilllller!"
From July 4 1960 and on that day the 50 star flag was raised for the very first time. On July 3 1960 the day before the 49 star flag was lowered for the very last time.
and a year before that the 48 star flag (who lived a long life starting in 1912, seeing it's country through the great depression, two world wars and finally seeing the prosperous 1950s as well) was lowered for the last time in 1959
@@dguy0386It seems our country's greatest days were when we flew the 48 star flag because of all the events that occurred during its use.
When I use to secretly stay up late in the 80s to watch kung fu theater I would always stand up when the station would play the anthem before going off the air.
it made a lot of people stand up because you had no remote and afterwards was very loud static
I love the little nod to this at the beginning of Billy Joel’s “Sleeping With The Television On”.
Poltergeist, too.
The opening of Poltergeist
and soft sounding static at that. It was SHARP and NOISY in Australia
I swear my sons didn't believe me when I told them that TV actually used to go "off" once upon a time. I wanted to both laugh, and cry 😭
I wish it would. Although I'm 56 and I usually sign off much earlier! 😂Their should be an app the connects to your streaming device that kicks in with a timer to play the national anthem.
@@Lynxdoci will make one for you, just when you buy it, choose the country you live in :)
@@elisaplant good idea and with a test pattern for a while and then static.
I was just now telling my kids about TV channels signing off at midnight when I was a kid. I told them we'd go to RUclips and see if I could find a video to show them. Thanks for posting this!
Id always find myself asleep in dads lazy chair as a boyafter watching this and then snow. Those were the good ole dayz i miss them like crazy. That was when america still had a pair. Fond memories are all i see.😢
remember the 3 f's guys, front lawn, face up, feet together
Anyone remember this is what use to be on right before our TV would sign off..I was very young and barely remembered..my sister reminded me..our world was alot more peaceful and USA was well respected.throwback moment. GOD BLESS 🇺🇸
Being born in the 2000s, I only saw a TV sign off once. I don’t know the station, but the show ended, and color bars came on, then static. I think what made it better was that is was when there was still analog TV, and it was on a CRT
I was born in 90 and I don't even remember this...curious what station you saw it on lol
megaroll.... if you were born in the 2000s you did NOT see a TV sign off what's so ever. I'm sorry and I'm not trying to be rude but you didn't see it live
@@santos0521 nah, i disagree with you. I was born in 1996 but i remember an NBC channel signing off. It was like that for like two hours and after that nothing but infomercials were on till their "regularly scheduled broadcasting" was back on.
@WesevWesev I'm sorry to tell you but if you were born in 1996 you didn't see it live either. I'm pretty sure they stopped doing TV sign offs in 1996 so you were to young to see it live
@@santos0521 it was probably a recording, u right. I do remember the color bars and static quite vividly cause it scared the piss out of me as a little kid watching tv at night😂
I truly miss this being a kid in the 80s! It was the best decade growing up ! Things were sooooo much simpler then! Man I miss the 80s!
Me too.
Me 3...wow!!! 83 baby I remember that loud flatline sound going to sleep
They should bring this back even if the TV is still on after.
I wish TV stations still did this.
I hear you. So much for being patriotic. Now it's infomercials.
Me too. Really.
Me too.
I think one local radio station still did it until very recently.
We have a friend in need, and we will not stop til he gets safe in Andy's room! Now let's go!
...and that concludes our broadcast day.
Toy Story 2 reference! That’s my boy
@@knoffke_07 insert Al with cheetos puffs sleeping on the couch
@@thewondersofawesometv1414 lol 😂
@@knoffke_07 no officer I swear 😨😨
@@thewondersofawesometv1414 wdym
I would rather watch color bars than anything aired early in the morning. For some reason, the monotones of the color bars really soothe me.
I'm a colour bars fan and even personalise it to myself and an Actor. Think of the tone as less a monotone and think of it as 2 people singing in higher and lower tone like an opera with a rainbow screen. Also listion to the tone at a low volume and you will adjust to it..400hz is easy to do 1000hz a bit longer. Also pick test patterns with music played and they are even easier to get into. Static? NO I find it creepy and worse gives me a nasty migraine..at any volume
@@flatcapman Color bars are beautiful, but I don't like static.
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@crazycoollady1999 It's hard to describe how Colour bars make me feel but if differs on what tone is played. 1000hz I feel a strong feeling of love for another and 400hz I cant help but feel Proud hearing it and self confident The same way you would feel if you were proud of something good you did. The bars are simply a stage for a tone performance.
Really? They scare me shitless
This was paying proper respect by honoring our American flag at the end of the night.
I wish more Americans appreciated their flag, the ideas behind it, and why it matters.
Play this back as slow as you can. Watch the lettering as they fade and roll in, and as it fades and rolls out.
You might see something, a bit shocking.
Sorry, if this revelation wrecks anything for you. I'm truly sorry those behind it had to be like this.
I was born in 85. I think when I was VERY young I saw one of these. There will never be another generation to see a t.v station "signing off". In fact, we may soon see the first generation to not know what T.V is at the rate we are going lol.
TV's not going away anytime soon at all. It's just going to continue to evolve in how it's used. Which it kind of already has been throughout its time in existence.
I remember waking up early as a kid and waiting to see if the TV was going to start broadcasting yet, so I could watch Sesame Street
PBS
Back in the days when tv use to go to color bars or static.
There were not enough reruns to run constantly. I used to get up to see the opening of my favourite channel, WTTV, on weekends. Saturday started with five hours of cartoons. Technology was not that good back then, but it seemed like things were better socially, well where I lived anyway. It was the 1980s when I last saw this.
Tony parra That's true.
My mom used to tell me about this. Wow I never thought I'd see this.
That's when you had to rush to turn the TV off so the ghost couldn't come out and get you.
Right 🤣 😂
back when tv wasn't 24 hours of nonstop content and people could rest their minds.
46 and I remember this as a kid. Kinda weird now.
As a child this used to give me anxiety because of the end, after the tone, the static black and white would kick in😱
Wow! This makes me so nostalgic. I remember this would come on after the "Three Stooges".
It brings back memories of my childhood.
I'm gonna play this at midnight every night so I can time travel
TV WENT OFF THE AIR at around midnight.....but......the fun did not. I would grab my trusty portable transistor radio and listen to the "LARRY GLICK SHOW" on WBZ radio Boston..... weekends, school vacations and summer vacations. Glick was the Johnny Carson of radio. The show went from like 11pm to 5am. WBZ had a massive transmitter in Boston. It was so powerful that when I would visit my grandmother in Indiana I could pick up the station at night.
When I was a kid, I had a routine every Saturday morning. I'd get up early, to catch the National Anthem on a local channel. Right after it came on the air, it would always show a 15 minute commercial for a now defunct beverage product called, "Super Sip" (It was the first juice pouch bag drink with a straw. It was only on the market for about 4-6 months). Then, right after that, was the intro to Underdog! The screen went from the test pattern to, "There's No Need to Fear...." in less then two minutes!
The first time I remember 24/7 broadcasting was the coverage of the JFK tragedy.
Man, I wish they still did this. Just something about it is so mysterious. Like as the tone is playing with the test pattern, there's a lot of drama going on during the night.
I feel exactly the same way you do.
you have no idea man
The beeeeeep tone and color bars used to freak me out as a little kid!!
Thats the perfect way to describe it. There absolutely was something mysterious about it. Then when it would cut to static and give the room a weird glow. Makes me nostalgic for my childhood.
I feel like this is the start to some Analog Horror
On Sunday nights,they also had a religious sign off.I especially remember one where an American Indian did the Lord's Prayer in sign language.
One of my most fearsome and hated childhood memories is when this would happen. I was always a weirdo night owl and would sneak up and watch tv and when this would happen I was like what am I supposed to do now?
I remember some nights, especially on weekends I would find things to keep me occupied. Like read some scary books, draw/color or play a handheld video game.
I've become full-on night owl as an adult and wasn't actually quite so much as a child, but I did experiment with it sometimes out of curiosity, since I found that I enjoyed the quiet and solitude of that time of day.
True! It's use to scare the shit out if me when I was a kid. What am I going to do now. Play Nintendo 🤣😂
Radio, CKLW Windsor / Detroit. I lived near Cleveland and some of the stations stayed on till 2:00 Am and then came back on at 5:30 to 6:00 AM with the morning news.
In this national anthem, no one was what it seems to feature this incredible national anthem and the sign-off test card. Whatever any national station in Disneyverse ceased broadcasting, it will always be.
Nothing negative happen 4 June 1989 Tiananmen friendship parade joy celebration. Stylish tank shopping bag man perfectly fine to himself for many years after. Harmony achieved with anti-aircraft gun, many resolutions efficiently, students return to study successfully.
My parents told me these used to exist on TV and I found that hard to believe, but now I've finally seen it. It's amazing just how much country, government, and patriotism used to be so infused with common life back then, though I suppose it's this way today (or a lot worse) just by other means. Regardless, these were simpler times where TV slots were limited, so things that truly mattered were squeezed in. People took things more seriously. Sometimes less truly is more, versus today where not only is there 24-hour TV but 24/7 internet entertainment and so much more, making people value it all so much less.
It's a good thing that we now have the internet, so that I can watch this at 5am while unable to sleep. I couldn't imagine going back to life without 24hr a day entertainment options.
They should totally still do this! Obviously not ending the broadcast, but at midnight they should play the national anthem.
Adult Swim does a national anthem bumper at midnight so thats pretty cool of them
Last time I checked, Fox News played the national anthem to mark the point when they stop repeating the previous night's shows and start a new day of programming (4am ET Mon-Fri, and 6am ET Saturday and Sunday)
Imagine how many issues wouldn’t exist today if this still occurred
It was worse back then. The crime rate was high in the 80's and early 90's.
THIS NEEDS TO COME BACK CAUSE THESE KIDS HAVE THE DAMN TV RUNNING ALLLLLLLLLL DAMN NIGHT
i wish this still happened today
This reminds me that there was that time when my middle school friends and I all stood around and talked about the finale of M*A*S*H, because we had all seen it, because that was what you watched after dinner. And we all cried. In school.
the finale of MASH? holy shit didn't that show end in the early 70's?
@@ranger8155 It ended in 1983
Good old American Patriotism, that’s one reason why I served in the Military……I miss the 70’s and 80’s badly!
Very patriotic, I bet millions of Americans stood in front of the television then.
they did because there was no remote to turn it off without walking to the tv
@@imchris5000Walking to the TV to turn it on or off wasn't very difficult.
@@stephenkammerling9479 especially since all the knobs were missing so you have to use channel locks
Ahhh, i remembee this.growing up, times were so simple back then, people today are missing out.
Sigyn Undomiel keep telling yourself those lies
I remember this all too well
This is the opening scene for the movie Poltergeist. I remember this used to fall asleep with the TV going when I was a teenager in early 1980's. I had a 13" TV in my room had a earphone plug I got a long cord would wake up with the national anthem playing. I remember the color bars would go up then the transmitter would shut down and just get white noise.
I recently just watched Poltergeist and you absolutely hit my nostalgia bone. I remember late night tv sign-offs, I had a timer set on my TV because I couldn’t fall asleep in a silent room.
i grew up in the 90s and would have liked this so much
According to the source I found, this was performed in 1961 by the Naval Academy Band, under the direction of Lt. Commander Max Corrick. It was in the rotation of most TV stations in the 1960's.
Actually I heard this was from 1960 when the current flag was raised for the first time
“This concludes our broadcast day, thanks for watching *[adult swim]* .”
I REMEMBER THIS SOOOOO MUCH!!!!
I wasn’t even alive to witness it back then, so there’s no way I remember this.
I wish we still had this!!!
It offended some retarded people. So, it was removed. Most channels do not sign off anymore, anyway.
Indrid Cold maybe trump will bring it back
Edgar Bwire why??? 24 hour programming is the now my friend
Bring it back?? Trump has taken AWAY more things, than given back. Wake up, you naive fuck!!
Ryo Amora I agree with this guy
these were the days when things were much better. after the television went off about 11:30 or 12 midnight you went to sleep. stores closed at 9 p.m. and were closed on Sunday. bars shut down at 1 a.m. we were a country that was not as fractured as we are today.
Exoress Delivers 9pm? Wow, what convenience! They used to shut at 5pm in Australia! And 1pm on Saturday!
I miss this too. You felt like you had some quiet time and breathing space from what has now become relentless commercialism.
BTW, was watching this because I was watching old Aussie TV sign-offs.
Exoress Delivers Glad we don't have that shit now
Much better? Going to sleep by midnight out of boredom doesn't sound that great. Stores closing down is an inconvenience. Thank fuck for the 24-hour supermarkets these days.
;n; I wish I was alive than
For those of us who work the overnight, grave-yard shifts. I can officially say this sucks.
i wish i grew up in this ara
The Brave Little Toaster actually brought me here (the radio does a broadcast sign off)
In Puerto Rico we had sign offs with both the Puerto Rican and USA Anthems and it was pretty common also to have sign ins as well.
Memories...
I grew up hearing that when id wake up and my dad fell asleep with the tv on
Wow I was born in the mid-80s but I think until like the early 90s they did this. I remember in my old apartment in the projects in Harlem I would often fall asleep in my living room and when I’d wake up, this would be on. I think it’d be like 3am or something. I knew I was either awake too late or way too early. Memories…..
this used to terrify me every time it came on and i was awake
I remember when I was young, ABC would always play this and sign off after American Gladiators.
What was most annoying was when you woke up 3:30 in the morning with that piercing tone and the color bars coming from your set AND you had to get up out of bed and turn off the tv with the knob on the front of the set, i.e no remote control. 😂
Antenna TV is the only channel I know of that still plays the national anthem. Every morning at 3:45 central, only it doesn't sign off and goes back to The Jeffersons.
Channel 9 and Channel 2 still show The national anthem in the Morning. They are 24 Hours though.
They're here...
The TV people.
Poltergeist aye
not quite that was white static for Poltergeist. SMPTE Colour bars is closer to Close encounters of the 3rd kind since the tone sounds Alien like. Poltergeist never used SMPTE Colour bars but the bars have been parodied Mario style showing Boos gathering around as the tone sounds like boo-ish smiling and the younger ones are wobbling mid flight like excited for something. I would say Children's TV shown early in the morning.
I thought of Family Guy first 😂
They should bring this back
Listen kids my generation was the last to go through this with television channels signing off at midnight, You kids got it easy and wouldn't last a year in the 1980's
Well, maybe you wouldn't have lasted a year in the 1880s. Or the 1930s. How about that hmm?
@@janesmith7676 I was in the military 🪖 4 years army, you wouldn't last 5 mins there in the 1880's
@@janesmith7676 Someone's ego is getting to their head.
I so remember that as a kid lol
SO DO I My older brothers still rag on me for watching test patterns as a kid but I was only 6 years old and I didn't know what I was looking at. Plus the 400hz tone hypnotised me
Back when the national anthem indicated that it was already time for bed
Here in the UK the BBC would cease broadcasting at around 11:30pm or so, and would sign off with a photograph of the Queen and our anthem ("God Save the Queen")
This terrified me as a child in the early 80's.
Billy Heaning The Anthem the loud noise when the colored bars came on, or the static?
The loud noise and those colored bars. Ungh. Shivers.
Billy Heaning I can imagine being a kid and waking up in the middle of the night to that beeping sound isn't fun, it's the entire sign off for me, there is just something eerie about it.
Billy Heaning I thought I was the only one who was terrified of sign-offs. The loud tone of the test screen, the static, the silent blank screen, and everything else that came after the sign-off scares me.
crazycoollady1999 Finally Someone who understands
Anyone looking at this in 2019?
Yep...10/19/19 @ 5 am!
Yes
Sassy Potatoe Sasha Now some channels play the late night anthem again. They don't sign off, just play the anthem at like 3 or 4 AM.
Sassy Potatoe Sasha yep 👍🏿
Sassy Potatoe Sasha 👍🏿
Adult Swim still uses anthem in their sign off
MASH late night reruns used to tell me it was time for bed. However, if I was awake for this, I knew I was up super late and needed to get my butt to sleep.
Back in my days on weekends when I was living in The Bronx, Chs. 2, 4 & 7 would go off the air around 3:30a and don’t come back on until 5:30a. In the 80s, some sports channels would broadcast from 6:00p to 1:00a on weeknights, 12n-1a on weekends, then go off the air. This was prior to informercials (paid programming) took over TV stations that normally go off the air. The shortest airtime was MSG Network in the 80s. Only Movie channels ran 24/7 showing G rated movies or animation cartoons in the mornings, PG rated movies in the afternoons, R rated movies in the evenings and adult R, NC-17 or not rated (fully explicit content) movies after midnight. HBO, Showtime and WHT were the first movie channels before TMC, MAX, STARZ, FLIX & extra channels came along.
This is a signoff, followed by six hours of static, and the beginning of something called Test Pattern in the early morning.
the Test Pattern came on when they were getting ready for the morning usually music played in the 90's. Typically Easy listioning to whatever was top of the pops back in the day
The tone sounded like 432MHz . . . which makes sense
I listen to a oldies station and they do this just to evoke nostalgia.It works.I feel like it just ends there
O god I remember those days when tv went off lol
I want use this for my analog horror
I remember these days. Tales From The Dark Side was the last thing to come on my network.
how many days I woke to the TV blaring static and those colors.
We will not rest until he's safe in Andy's room, Now let's move out
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these unreasonably scared me as a child
I remember growing up watching tv. Then midnight this would come on Straight to bed