This is, without question, the very best national anthem film ever! WBZ-TV in Boston used to sign-off the station with this film after their "Evening Prayer" segment!
Okay, laugh if you want to, but that brought tears to my eyes. Very moving version of the Anthem. I grew up watching Channel 5 and channel 11 from Raleigh and Durham, respectively.
I remember seeing this version of the SSB on both WTAF and WNEW when I was a kid. Even back then it gave me goosebumps because the music and images were put together so powerfully. Thanks for putting this up.
WRAL recently switched back to its original affiliation with NBC (The station was affiliated with NBC from its initial sign-on in 1956 until 1962, then it switched to ABC from 1962 until 1985 when it switched to CBS, then about 2-3 weeks ago, switched back to NBC).
"This concludes another day of service by WRAL Television Channel 5, in Raleigh, North Carolina. This station is owned and operated by Capital Broadcasing Company Inc, with studios and offices at 2619 Western Boulevard in Raleigh, North Carolina, and with transmitter at Auburn, North Carolina, transmitng one thousand watts visual and 15 thousand watts oral circular polaztion, our studio-to-transmitter visual link is KIW 46. As we conclude this day of service to the heartland of North Carolina, and Southside, Virginia, the management and staff of WRAL Television very much appreciate your interest and wish for you and yours a very pleasant good night. And now, ladies and gentlemen, our National Anthem."
Great job at posting this. I grew up in eastern nc and channel 5 was one of the two stations I would watch growing up (wtvd channel 11 was the other)I loved channel 5 news with Charlie Gaddy along with Tom Suiter doing football friday which was a must watch for any high school football player after a fri. night home game.
I used to LOVE this! Like others here, I watched this on WDVM TV-9 (Wash DC) every opportunity I got when I was a kid. I had to get up early on Saturday mornings to work with my mom, so got dressed, turned the TV on and waited for it. I've loved American history since I can remember. I seem to remember when they stopped showing it and I was very disappointed. I didn't have any problem finding it on youtube but I wish I could find a good, sharp copy on a DVD somewhere.
Awesome...this is also the same Anthem version/film that WITI (Channel 6) in Milwaukee uses when they go off the air. They used to all the time on Sunday nights, but now they only do so for DTV tower maintenance only. I think this is the best version of an anthem closing we have in our area; the others just use versions provided by the Marine Corps and the Navy.
I remember seeing this at sign-off on WBZ-TV in Boston. On Monday nights, they'd present the Lord's Prayer in sign-language by 3 kids from the Crotched Mountain School in New Hampshire. I admit that I was turned off by sign language at the time.
I used to watch this on WBZ-TV in Boston on those nights when i stayed up late. I also remember that on Tuesday mornings at sign-off, there would be the Lord's Prayer in sign-language filmed at Crotched Mountain in New Hampshire.
I use to be able to pick this station up with rabbet ears back in the day when I lived in Norfolk, VA use to watch this sign off when the station came in memories.
Here's something you probably didn't know, jerrymouse2008: WRAL was the NBC affiliate for Raleigh from its initial sign-on in 1956 until 1962; then in 1962 (until 1985), the station was the area's ABC affiliate, before becoming a CBS affiliate in the fall of 1985 (by virtue of WTVD being swallowed up by Capital Cities, and becoming an ABC O&O), with WRAL remaining the Raleigh-Durham area's CBS affiliate until about six months ago, when they went back to NBC.
I met Bob Debardelaben when I was in the 7th grade. He came to our school and talked about the weather. He was a very tall man, bald on top. He drove a VW Bug, if I remember correctly. I grew up watching WRAL. Charlie Gaddy was the head ancor of the news. Cool vid.
I remember that on WTAF-TV (now WTXF Fox 29) in the late 1970's and early 1980's as well. The music, BTW, occasionally is played for the Macy*s 4th of July Fireworks show.
Re: "Don't forget the Air Force had several versions of the SSB, too! The one with the split screen comes to mind. The flag in the center. The jet on the top half. And ariel shots of America on the bottom half. Re: "...the best one recorded on a Moog synthesizer." Our Univision affiliate used that one. It ended very similar to this one (with a shot of Earth, the moon, and the lunar landing).
Actually originated in 1971 - that was the copyright as seen at the very end of this SSB as played for many years by WNEW-TV (now WNYW Fox 5) in New York.
Just curious if you (or anyone else) recall Channel 9 in Washington airing this "Flag Evolution SSB" in the 1970's when the station was still known as WTOP-TV.
Again, these switches were in early 1995. WBZ-TV went from NBC to CBS, while WHDH-TV went the other way - and remain so to this day. (And with that, Channel 7, also taking into account its prior calls of WNAC and WNEV, had affiliations at one time or another with all three "major" networks - ABC, CBS and NBC.)
I grew up in northern Virginia, and depending on how the atmosphere was behaving, we could pick up all the stations in both D.C. and Baltimore, most of the time CBS and and NBC in Richmond (the ABC affiliate, now WRIC, was and still is in Petersburg, so it was out of range), KYW and WCAU in Philadelphia and on rare occasions, WNBC in New York. WMAR, which went from CBS to NBC sometime in the 1970's, was owned at the time by the parent company of the Baltimore Sun (before Tribune), and its sign-ons and sign-offs included not only the SSB, but followed that with "Maryland, My Maryland" by the all-male choir the Chorus of the Chesapeake, with a film clip of the Sun building that had the caption "Read the Sunpapers" flashing across the top of the screen.
@@sillygoose635 Nice non argument you got there Stevie. You're too stupid to refute anything in the comment so you just screech UR DUMB!!!!!!! in response
Esto concluido otra dia de servicio por WRAL Television, canal 5, en Raleigh, Carolina del Norte. Esta estacion es propriedo y operando por Capital Broadcasting Company, Inc. con estudios y oficinas por 2619 Western Blvd. en Raleigh, Carolina del Norte, y transmitidor en Auburn, Carolina del Norte, transmitido 100,000 watts visual, y 15,000 watts audio, polarizacion circular. Nuestro estacion visual estudio a transmitidor es KIW-46. Porque concluido esta dia de servicio a la corazon del Carolina del Norte, y el sur de Virginia, la managamiento y empleados de WRAL Television apreciado mucho su atencion, y espera para usted y su familia, muy buenas noches tranquilos. Y ahora, damas y caballeros, el himno estadounidense.
Rick Cortez No; the announcer for the Disney Channel was Jerry Bishop, the same guy who now announces for "Judge Judy"; the announcer for Disney movies has varied over the years.
Re: "I remember this. It still come on where I from which is the Missisippi educational television network. It comes on every sunday night." What is the condition of the film (or whatever media they're using for it now)? Our NBC affiliate here in South TX used it throughout the 80's (I remember it after LATER with Bob Costas). Toward the end of that decade, the film was so degraded and the sound was really scratchy.
Yeah, If the signal can reach you depending on where you lived in Southside Virginia and what kind of Antenna you're using but that was during the Analog era. Digital era is a different story. Trying to pick up the digital signal today is going to be difficult whether you use pair of Rabbit Ears or a Yagi-Uda Antenna. Trying to get both Picture and Sound without ticking from that distance and from a digital signal is going to be tough.
I remember all this. It sucked too. At the time there was no 24 hour cable tv. If you were watching this, it meant that you had a boring night ahead of you. I can remember as a kid that couldn't sleep when the TV stations went off the air. You had to use you imagionation the rest of the night to find something to do. This would be unholy in todays world to the kids. No playstions, Xbox, or even Atari. Many homes then didn't have all the gismo. Look at where we are now.
Watching this is almost like a short history book about the United States of America glad that the Confederate flag was included because like it or not was a part of American history you can ban it and take down all the Confederate statues and it's still U.S. history no matter what
kinda like the same way with Blue Ridge Public Television becoming Blue Ridge PBS and North Carolina Public Television becoming University of North Carolina Television
That signified the period when the United States was divided into TWO countries during the Civil War (1861-'65).....with *two* flags. That was part of our country's evolution. That cannot be forgotten.
This is, without question, the very best national anthem film ever! WBZ-TV in Boston used to sign-off the station with this film after their "Evening Prayer" segment!
Okay, laugh if you want to, but that brought tears to my eyes. Very moving version of the Anthem.
I grew up watching Channel 5 and channel 11 from Raleigh and Durham, respectively.
Thats ok . Youre right as rain... It moved me as well... Great piece!
I remember seeing this version of the SSB on both WTAF and WNEW when I was a kid. Even back then it gave me goosebumps because the music and images were put together so powerfully. Thanks for putting this up.
The Wnew one had pictures from a small city in new york
I used to watch this ending all the time when growing up in the early 80's.
WRAL recently switched back to its original affiliation with NBC (The station was affiliated with NBC from its initial sign-on in 1956 until 1962, then it switched to ABC from 1962 until 1985 when it switched to CBS, then about 2-3 weeks ago, switched back to NBC).
"This concludes another day of service by WRAL Television Channel 5, in Raleigh, North Carolina. This station is owned and operated by Capital Broadcasing Company Inc, with studios and offices at 2619 Western Boulevard in Raleigh, North Carolina, and with transmitter at Auburn, North Carolina, transmitng one thousand watts visual and 15 thousand watts oral circular polaztion, our studio-to-transmitter visual link is KIW 46. As we conclude this day of service to the heartland of North Carolina, and Southside, Virginia, the management and staff of WRAL Television very much appreciate your interest and wish for you and yours a very pleasant good night. And now, ladies and gentlemen, our National Anthem."
The Flag Evolution SSB Film Also Aired When WITI-TV Signed Off For Maintenance In 2004
When I was growing up in the '70s, Channel 5 would also play "Dixie" by Fred Waring and the Pennsylvanians before they played this.
Great job at posting this. I grew up in eastern nc and channel 5 was one of the two stations I would watch growing up (wtvd channel 11 was the other)I loved channel 5 news with Charlie Gaddy along with Tom Suiter doing football friday which was a must watch for any high school football player after a fri. night home game.
Grew up in 60s and this sure brings back memories. 😊
Back when you have no choice but to go to bed.
Back when a 4 minute segment of TV gave you a better grasp on US history than today's avg high school diploma !!
I used to LOVE this! Like others here, I watched this on WDVM TV-9 (Wash DC) every opportunity I got when I was a kid. I had to get up early on Saturday mornings to work with my mom, so got dressed, turned the TV on and waited for it. I've loved American history since I can remember.
I seem to remember when they stopped showing it and I was very disappointed.
I didn't have any problem finding it on youtube but I wish I could find a good, sharp copy on a DVD somewhere.
I'm pretty sure this was the year an ice storm caused there tower to colapse and then a new tower was built with a stronger signal of 5 million watts.
Awesome...this is also the same Anthem version/film that WITI (Channel 6) in Milwaukee uses when they go off the air. They used to all the time on Sunday nights, but now they only do so for DTV tower maintenance only. I think this is the best version of an anthem closing we have in our area; the others just use versions provided by the Marine Corps and the Navy.
I remember seeing this at sign-off on WBZ-TV in Boston. On Monday nights, they'd present the Lord's Prayer in sign-language by 3 kids from the Crotched Mountain School in New Hampshire. I admit that I was turned off by sign language at the time.
I remember this usually scares me when I stayed up at night as a kid.
I used to watch this on WBZ-TV in Boston on those nights when i stayed up late. I also remember that on Tuesday mornings at sign-off, there would be the Lord's Prayer in sign-language filmed at Crotched Mountain in New Hampshire.
I use to be able to pick this station up with rabbet ears back in the day when I lived in Norfolk, VA use to watch this sign off when the station came in memories.
WRAL will become the new NBC affiliate in central North Carolina on monday.
Here's something you probably didn't know, jerrymouse2008: WRAL was the NBC affiliate for Raleigh from its initial sign-on in 1956 until 1962; then in 1962 (until 1985), the station was the area's ABC affiliate, before becoming a CBS affiliate in the fall of 1985 (by virtue of WTVD being swallowed up by Capital Cities, and becoming an ABC O&O), with WRAL remaining the Raleigh-Durham area's CBS affiliate until about six months ago, when they went back to NBC.
I actually already know this, but thanks for telling me.
I met Bob Debardelaben when I was in the 7th grade. He came to our school and talked about the weather. He was a very tall man, bald on top. He drove a VW Bug, if I remember correctly. I grew up watching WRAL. Charlie Gaddy was the head ancor of the news. Cool vid.
Was that when Jesse Helms worked there?
Ronin Sherpa i remember meeting both of them myself during a field trip to WRAL studio when i was in 6th grade.
I remember this. It still come on where I from which is the Missisippi educational television network. It comes on every sunday night.
This version was used by WSFA in Montgomery back in the 70s.
WRAL Castlehaven Opening in Raleigh, NC, Winter 1997
Times HAVE changed a lot, but in a bad way.
...no.
agree. It used to be a conservative TV station.
No, it hasn't, its changed in a good way.
There’s a thing called 24/7 broadcasting
@@paulgarrison6007 in which manner.
Wow! I don’t remember the last time I turned on my TV. It has been a few years.
I remember that on WTAF-TV (now WTXF Fox 29) in the late 1970's and early 1980's as well. The music, BTW, occasionally is played for the Macy*s 4th of July Fireworks show.
National anthem sounds wonderful. Great way to sign off at night instead of re-airing junkworthy entertainment that often show a lack of moral fibre.
Bullshit.
Today's content isn't junkworthy, And it does show moral fibre,
Re: "Don't forget the Air Force had several versions of the SSB, too!
The one with the split screen comes to mind. The flag in the center. The jet on the top half. And ariel shots of America on the bottom half.
Re: "...the best one recorded on a Moog synthesizer."
Our Univision affiliate used that one. It ended very similar to this one (with a shot of Earth, the moon, and the lunar landing).
Woooh Raleigh NC represent. haha
Yessss let's all try to bring back the tv sign offs in Raleigh in 2024!!!
Actually originated in 1971 - that was the copyright as seen at the very end of this SSB as played for many years by WNEW-TV (now WNYW Fox 5) in New York.
I remember when channel 29 WTAF in Philly used the Evolution SSB at sign on and sign off back in the 80s
That I remember well . . . though I've lived in New York all my life, I used to live in a house which got that channel at certain times of the day.
WRAL-TV Is now an NBC affiliate 1956-1962 ,2016-Present.
Just curious if you (or anyone else) recall Channel 9 in Washington airing this "Flag Evolution SSB" in the 1970's when the station was still known as WTOP-TV.
Absolutely. They didn't change their call letters from WTOP to WDVM until 1978, and they were one of the first stations to start using Flag Evolution.
Brand New Broadcast Are Wblc Channel 5
Again, these switches were in early 1995. WBZ-TV went from NBC to CBS, while WHDH-TV went the other way - and remain so to this day. (And with that, Channel 7, also taking into account its prior calls of WNAC and WNEV, had affiliations at one time or another with all three "major" networks - ABC, CBS and NBC.)
I grew up in northern Virginia, and depending on how the atmosphere was behaving, we could pick up all the stations in both D.C. and Baltimore, most of the time CBS and and NBC in Richmond (the ABC affiliate, now WRIC, was and still is in Petersburg, so it was out of range), KYW and WCAU in Philadelphia and on rare occasions, WNBC in New York.
WMAR, which went from CBS to NBC sometime in the 1970's, was owned at the time by the parent company of the Baltimore Sun (before Tribune), and its sign-ons and sign-offs included not only the SSB, but followed that with "Maryland, My Maryland" by the all-male choir the Chorus of the Chesapeake, with a film clip of the Sun building that had the caption "Read the Sunpapers" flashing across the top of the screen.
New York. But I was once to Boston for a week in the late 1980's . . .
I remember when WRAL would come on in the morning and play the National anthem - then Dixie - then the Circuit Rider would have a devotion
And also two other notable swaps in '95: WJZ/WMAR in Baltimore and WBZ/WHDH in Boston.
WMAR is one of the few stations that's been with each of the Big 3 networks (ABC, CBS and NBC).
Too bad we'll never see this on public tv again since we're living in the pc generation.
@@sillygoose635 Nice non argument you got there Stevie. You're too stupid to refute anything in the comment so you just screech UR DUMB!!!!!!! in response
@@Deathfromabove5 right back at ya you fucking mongrel
Also, no, we will never have this again since we have 24hr television.
They certainly couldn't get away with the Confederate battle flag in the anthem at 2:20. Not in NC in 2019.
@@Deathfromabove5 You're so fucking dumb, you dimwit
Vintage images in a vintage video.
Yes semifullyauto, times have changed so much.....for the worse!
Hmm, no.
They've changed for the better,
Esto concluido otra dia de servicio por WRAL Television, canal 5, en Raleigh, Carolina del Norte. Esta estacion es propriedo y operando por Capital Broadcasting Company, Inc. con estudios y oficinas por 2619 Western Blvd. en Raleigh, Carolina del Norte, y transmitidor en Auburn, Carolina del Norte, transmitido 100,000 watts visual, y 15,000 watts audio, polarizacion circular. Nuestro estacion visual estudio a transmitidor es KIW-46. Porque concluido esta dia de servicio a la corazon del Carolina del Norte, y el sur de Virginia, la managamiento y empleados de WRAL Television apreciado mucho su atencion, y espera para usted y su familia, muy buenas noches tranquilos. Y ahora, damas y caballeros, el himno estadounidense.
Gracias para su traducion en espanol!
was he also the voice of "THe Disney Channel" and each walt disney movies?
Rick Cortez No; the announcer for the Disney Channel was Jerry Bishop, the same guy who now announces for "Judge Judy"; the announcer for Disney movies has varied over the years.
Re: "I remember this. It still come on where I from which is the Missisippi educational television network. It comes on every sunday night."
What is the condition of the film (or whatever media they're using for it now)?
Our NBC affiliate here in South TX used it throughout the 80's (I remember it after LATER with Bob Costas). Toward the end of that decade, the film was so degraded and the sound was really scratchy.
I'm from north Carolina :dddd
This is it, WRAL TV CHANNEL 5 IS going to shut down for national anthem.
Wait, you can get this in Southside VA?
Raleigh isn't that far from Virginia.
Yeah, If the signal can reach you depending on where you lived in Southside Virginia and what kind of Antenna you're using but that was during the Analog era. Digital era is a different story. Trying to pick up the digital signal today is going to be difficult whether you use pair of Rabbit Ears or a Yagi-Uda Antenna. Trying to get both Picture and Sound without ticking from that distance and from a digital signal is going to be tough.
I remember all this. It sucked too. At the time there was no 24 hour cable tv. If you were watching this, it meant that you had a boring night ahead of you. I can remember as a kid that couldn't sleep when the TV stations went off the air. You had to use you imagionation the rest of the night to find something to do.
This would be unholy in todays world to the kids. No playstions, Xbox, or even Atari. Many homes then didn't have all the gismo. Look at where we are now.
As a c ountry, we are making very little history of this type any more. We were heroic at one time but that is fading fast.
Thanks to Trump.
It used to be a conservative TV station. I miss those days.
As in Jesse Helms doing commentaries?
They moved on to being a not biased TV station
Why did sign offs end?
WRAL nbc 5 owned by capital broadcasting company
Watching this is almost like a short history book about the United States of America glad that the Confederate flag was included because like it or not was a part of American history you can ban it and take down all the Confederate statues and it's still U.S. history no matter what
Well, WPHL/Ch. 17, for starters . . .
Nope, sorry . . . although when I lived where I lived, WCAU was a CBS O&O and KYW was the Group W-owned NBC affiliate.
kinda like the same way with Blue Ridge Public Television becoming Blue Ridge PBS and North Carolina Public Television becoming University of North Carolina Television
WRAL-TV 5 Raleigh, North Carolina Sign Off December 2011
Network Affiliations History for WRAL: NBC,1956-1962.ABC 1962-1985.CBS 1985-Present.
@2:13 two thumbs up for the Confederate flag!
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Nice history lesson...shame about the Confederate flag in the montage :(.
That signified the period when the United States was divided into TWO countries during the Civil War (1861-'65).....with *two* flags. That was part of our country's evolution. That cannot be forgotten.
@jmmclawh
You can thank Ronald Reagan for that.