I really do miss true, local independent stations. We never really fully understood back then how good we had it with channels 5, 9 and 11 in the NY Metro area.
This sign-on was from WOR-TV's years as an RKO General station, and as one of the first superstations in the US along with WTBS in Atlanta, WGN-TV in Chicago and KTLA in Los Angeles. It called itself "The Nation's Station" on its nationwide cable and satellite feeds.
The same feed as NYC was seen across the country until 1990, when the EMI Service feed was launched outside the NYC market due to SyndEx (with some systems in South Jersey still carrying the NYC feed via microwave). We got to see those "The Nation's Station" promos in the NYC area.
I like the brief cause it isn't giving the latest developments. It's giving news from the past, things you should know and the weather for the day ahead
Erick paolo santos The Seacaucus, New Jersey studio at 9 broadcast plaza no longer exists as of 2020. Closed in 2018 and all WWOR-TV operations were moved full time to WNYW-TV’s studios at the FOX Television Center (205 E.67th Street, Manhattan, NY). You can thank Ani Shitpi , the FCC commissioner fuckin ch.9 up due to the FCC’s main studio rule. 9 Broadcast Plaza was sold back to the contractor who developed 9 broadcast plaza before ch. 9 signed on, Hartz Mountain Industries in 2018. Hartz torn down 9 broadcast plaza in June 2019. P.S. WWOR-TV is the East Coast My Network TV flagship.
@gtc1961 Hate to break it to you, but it was during the 80s and the Reagan administration when all of the TV stations stopped airing the late night/early morning anthem and religious segments. I don't think he's to blame for that, but he's also not worthy of being praised for their existence.
In my country, Indonesia, several national TV channels still doing play the national anthem at early morning and patriotic song around midnight, even though they were operated 24/7.
My God they showed the praying hands, what were they thinking? When you were going to bed, and heard "Good morning" on the sign off, you knew you were up too late!
@gtc1961 I understood your point from the first post, but I do respectfully disagree with the country having a spell of "self-worth" in the Reagan years. I suppose it depends on individual perceptions of that time, but my point was that broadcast outlets decided in those years that the anthem and messages of morality weren't as profitable as all-night infomercials . Dont want to make a political debate of it, but the "Greed is Good" line from the movie Wall Street epitomized the Reagan 80s.
Hey you-tubers We really miss that time where they sign-on & off (where U have no choice but to get to sleep after the sign-off part,) those we're great times, what the heck happened now?
Nowadays the studios are at 9 Broadcast Plaza in Secaucus, NJ, with office functions split between the Secaucus location and 205 E 52nd Street in Manhattan along with sister station Fox 5
John Fenner That’s no longer the case as of 2020. All WWOR-TV operations went to WNYW-TV’s studios and offices at the FOX Television plaza at 205 E.67th Street in Manhattan. 9 Broadcast Plaza was sold back to ch. 9’s developer Hartz Mountain Industries who torn it to shreds (as in demolishing it) in June of last year (2019). Thank Ani Shit Pi (The FCC commissioner) for fuckin ch. 9 up with the FCC’s main studio rule.
kstarpictures That had been years in the making. I remember this being mentioned in the papers when I was in high school. But things did not really happen till the late 1980s.
@Bentom86 I wasn't implying that a politician mandated or had the authority to abolish these openings and closings but, during Reagan, the country experienced a new self-worth that lasted for about 10 to 15 years and has since colapsed. There is now way conservatives would have had anything to do with these going off the air...it was, most likely, the result of rediculous anti-religion or anti-patriotic lawsuits that nudged TV stations to abandon these messages.
Good Lord I know it dates me, but these were the things that helped us identify with each other and as Americans. It's a shame those days have passed and its all about crap tv and mindless entertainment. Even broadcasters had a responsibility to the public they serve. Remember the Fairness Doctrine? Losing that accelerated the downward spiral into the current base and sleazy culture.
In the area I lived in at the time none of the television stations had religious programs included in their sign-off and sign-on. They would broadcast church services on Sunday morning but only after 9am. One station would broadcast the US Farm Report with Orion Samuelson every Sunday morning at 5:30am (or later on at 7am). I used to watch that program as I was coming back home after a night of drinking and would watch Samuelson with my last drink of the evening in my hand.
Shadow this was not a Christian Station....this is how they all came on in the morning.The even did Sermonettes..after this...Goes to show you how far we have gotten away from God..Read second Timothy Chapter Three..It answers all of this..
Some of the ABC O&Os would have a rabbi on instead of a Christian minister. IIRC the CBS O&O in Los Angeles would also have a rabbi on. I see why NYC stations would have a rabbi on as there is a large Jewish population there but other cities like Los Angeles don't (and never did) have enough Jews to justify airing rabbis instead of Christian ministers.
WOR (WWOR) was not a Christian channel, but rather a (former) independent station that aired Mets baseball,celeb talker Joe Franklin (1950-83) and was once was the home of Howard Stern and Morton Downey,Jr.and aired reruns of former TV network shows.
@tightfistedtitans Very true, this was made during the Reagan administration when the nation regained its soul. Sadly it is gone again but it will return!
I really do miss true, local independent stations. We never really fully understood back then how good we had it with channels 5, 9 and 11 in the NY Metro area.
And also independent radio stations like WOR-AM, WABC and all the others.
I always liked WPIX from New York City and KTVT from Dallas-Fort Worth for indie stations in addition to WGN from Chicago and WTBS from Atlanta.
Those days seem so far away from our current society, I can't believe we were actually on the same planet. I long for those days dearly.
Yeah, when Fox Television Stations didn't have a stranglehold on channels 5 and 9.
@@johnissoevil Stupid statement.
@@sillygoose635 Thank you for your input, Fox employee.
This sign-on was from WOR-TV's years as an RKO General station, and as one of the first superstations in the US along with WTBS in Atlanta, WGN-TV in Chicago and KTLA in Los Angeles. It called itself "The Nation's Station" on its nationwide cable and satellite feeds.
The same feed as NYC was seen across the country until 1990, when the EMI Service feed was launched outside the NYC market due to SyndEx (with some systems in South Jersey still carrying the NYC feed via microwave). We got to see those "The Nation's Station" promos in the NYC area.
Agreed, I also miss the news briefs during the sign-ons from back then...
The commercials reflect this was still America in 1981....
I like the brief cause it isn't giving the latest developments. It's giving news from the past, things you should know and the weather for the day ahead
wish to god almighty it was like that again on channel nine
What happened?
Nowadays WWOR TV Channel 9 is a MyNetwork TV Affiliate stations in New York City (Also known as MyTV 9)
Erick paolo santos The Seacaucus, New Jersey studio at 9 broadcast plaza no longer exists as of 2020. Closed in 2018 and all WWOR-TV operations were moved full time to WNYW-TV’s studios at the FOX Television Center (205 E.67th Street, Manhattan, NY). You can thank Ani Shitpi , the FCC commissioner fuckin ch.9 up due to the FCC’s main studio rule. 9 Broadcast Plaza was sold back to the contractor who developed 9 broadcast plaza before ch. 9 signed on, Hartz Mountain Industries in 2018. Hartz torn down 9 broadcast plaza in June 2019. P.S. WWOR-TV is the East Coast My Network TV flagship.
@gtc1961 Hate to break it to you, but it was during the 80s and the Reagan administration when all of the TV stations stopped airing the late night/early morning anthem and religious segments. I don't think he's to blame for that, but he's also not worthy of being praised for their existence.
Interesting thing about this clip is that WOR-TV was already 24/7 by this point, but they still had the courtesy to do a sign-on.
In my country, Indonesia, several national TV channels still doing play the national anthem at early morning and patriotic song around midnight, even though they were operated 24/7.
WPIX did the same thing until the mid-90s. KYW 3 in Philadelphia would air a short station identification every morning at 5 am until 2002.
My God they showed the praying hands, what were they thinking? When you were going to bed, and heard "Good morning" on the sign off, you knew you were up too late!
The WOR-TV logo at the beginning, they continued to use it until 1983.
Great childhood memories
so sad... such as classy start to a day would now be condemned.
That beautiful Pledge of Allegiance commercial was always captivating...The National Anthem one as well....
Now that's one comprehensive morning news brief. How we miss them.
Two days before my fifteenth birthday (and the day before I started my sophomore year of high school).
Priceless!
@gtc1961 I understood your point from the first post, but I do respectfully disagree with the country having a spell of "self-worth" in the Reagan years. I suppose it depends on individual perceptions of that time, but my point was that broadcast outlets decided in those years that the anthem and messages of morality weren't as profitable as all-night infomercials . Dont want to make a political debate of it, but the "Greed is Good" line from the movie Wall Street epitomized the Reagan 80s.
Hey you-tubers We really miss that time where they sign-on & off (where U have no choice but to get to sleep after the sign-off part,) those we're great times, what the heck happened now?
Back when television used to wake up with the viewers. Now television is sleepless...and so are the viewers.
FINALLY I FOUND IT!
The announcer here is Ray Marlin.
Who was a freelancer, who also announced for WTNH-TV (Channel 8) in New Haven, CT.
Right after that beautiful opening you probably got a commercial for Crazy Eddie.
Where did these days go to ? Now it's 24 hours 7 days a week of complete garbage.
1:12 The Star Spangled Banner
First game I ever went to and I was on a show called dynamets earlier that day. I interviewed bill spiers lol
Recorded September 8, 1981.
@headiero They sure did. I call it, "giving a shit"; something today's class of folks never heard of, a real shame....
The day after my birthday. :)
This is almost exactly 40 years ago (September 1981).
Nowadays the studios are at 9 Broadcast Plaza in Secaucus, NJ, with office functions split between the Secaucus location and 205 E 52nd Street in Manhattan along with sister station Fox 5
John Fenner That’s no longer the case as of 2020. All WWOR-TV operations went to WNYW-TV’s studios and offices at the FOX Television plaza at 205 E.67th Street in Manhattan. 9 Broadcast Plaza was sold back to ch. 9’s developer Hartz Mountain Industries who torn it to shreds (as in demolishing it) in June of last year (2019). Thank Ani Shit Pi (The FCC commissioner) for fuckin ch. 9 up with the FCC’s main studio rule.
0:31 It's hard not to associate this with what would happen 20 yeas later
@eekoutasignal True, at this point, RKO General was just months away from losing their first station, WNAC Channel 7 in Boston due to misconduct.
kstarpictures That had been years in the making. I remember this being mentioned in the papers when I was in high school. But things did not really happen till the late 1980s.
Is there one for KHJ Channel 9 too?
@Bentom86 I wasn't implying that a politician mandated or had the authority to abolish these openings and closings but, during Reagan, the country experienced a new self-worth that lasted for about 10 to 15 years and has since colapsed. There is now way conservatives would have had anything to do with these going off the air...it was, most likely, the result of rediculous anti-religion or anti-patriotic lawsuits that nudged TV stations to abandon these messages.
Good Lord I know it dates me, but these were the things that helped us identify with each other and as Americans. It's a shame those days have passed and its all about crap tv and mindless entertainment. Even broadcasters had a responsibility to the public they serve. Remember the Fairness Doctrine? Losing that accelerated the downward spiral into the current base and sleazy culture.
In the area I lived in at the time none of the television stations had religious programs included in their sign-off and sign-on. They would broadcast church services on Sunday morning but only after 9am. One station would broadcast the US Farm Report with Orion Samuelson every Sunday morning at 5:30am (or later on at 7am). I used to watch that program as I was coming back home after a night of drinking and would watch Samuelson with my last drink of the evening in my hand.
The day after my 6th birthday. :)
Wor tv announcer ray marlin
Every screaming crying liberal out there should be forced to watch this with the hope that maybe it would wake at least some of them up.
Shadow this was not a Christian Station....this is how they all came on in the morning.The even did Sermonettes..after this...Goes to show you how far we have gotten away from God..Read second Timothy Chapter Three..It answers all of this..
Some of the ABC O&Os would have a rabbi on instead of a Christian minister. IIRC the CBS O&O in Los Angeles would also have a rabbi on. I see why NYC stations would have a rabbi on as there is a large Jewish population there but other cities like Los Angeles don't (and never did) have enough Jews to justify airing rabbis instead of Christian ministers.
"And to the REPUBLIC"!!!!!
See that Democrats?
no
I agree fox my9 and cw suck well fox is ok at least I can watch family guy and the simpsons lol
was this a christian channel
no it wasn't, played the Mets games and mostly older reruns of shows. Home of the First Howard Stern show on Sat nights.
WOR (WWOR) was not a Christian channel, but rather a (former) independent station that aired Mets baseball,celeb talker Joe Franklin (1950-83) and was once was the home of Howard
Stern and Morton Downey,Jr.and aired reruns of former TV
network shows.
@tightfistedtitans Very true, this was made during the Reagan administration when the nation regained its soul. Sadly it is gone again but it will return!
At least he got rid of the so-called "fairness doctrine"