WKBS 48 - "Prayer For Today" and Sign Off (1983)

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  • Опубликовано: 8 сен 2024
  • To anyone who knows the exact date of this recording, please let me know! I love to watch videos like these all the time, and they are so nostalgic to watch!
    Disclaimer: This is not the ever-so-sought-after, audio-only final sign off from August 30, 1983. This sign off is actually from earlier that year.
    As always, no copyright infringement was intended. Also, courtesy of this nostalgic video belongs to FuzzyMemories.tv, also known as the Museum of Classic Chicago Television.
    Link to the final sign off of this station (which was uploaded a few years ago): • Video
    (P.S. This didn't air on classic Chicago TV unless you had a really, really long antenna.)

Комментарии • 31

  • @darthneon0701
    @darthneon0701  3 года назад +2

    If anyone knows the date of this sign off, please inform me.

    • @TrentJordan3198
      @TrentJordan3198 2 года назад

      You're a little kid.

    • @darthneon0701
      @darthneon0701  2 года назад +2

      @@TrentJordan3198 All I know is that this sign-off is from early 1983.

  • @sirdouglas6859
    @sirdouglas6859 2 года назад +12

    This is my footage of WKBS-TV, which was misappropriated by "Fuzzy" (who then stamped his imprint on it). It's from the summer of 1983, just a few months before the station went dark. I have several hours of channel 48 footage from this period, including entire broadcasts of the "Late Movie" (specifically, a week's worth of Laurel & Hardy films the station ran from 11:30 pm until 1:00 am, when they signed-off for the night).

    • @darthneon0701
      @darthneon0701  2 года назад +2

      Wow, I didn't believe you had this footage.

    • @yerkeskid
      @yerkeskid 2 года назад +3

      Do you have any recordings of the WKBS "Fun Machine" kids show?

    • @darthneon0701
      @darthneon0701  2 года назад +1

      @@yerkeskid Unfortunately, I don't.

    • @vln2012
      @vln2012 2 года назад +2

      Sir Douglas do you have a prayer for today with the kaiser channel 48 logo? The sign off consisted of fyi the 10 minute public affairs show and a slides newscast down by a live announcer before prayer for today

    • @sirdouglas6859
      @sirdouglas6859 2 года назад +5

      @@vln2012 I'm sorry to say I have nothing from channel 48 with the Kaiser logo (that logo was retired in 1977, a few years before VCR's came into use). I do have an edition of "FYI" from 1983 (which manages to be boring in under ten minutes), lots of channel 48 commercials (also from '83) and a master print of a 1982 "Creature Double Feature" intro & outro from WLVI-TV that exists nowhere else. In any event, congratulations on your fine memory!

  • @davidmatthewvinotjr8396
    @davidmatthewvinotjr8396 3 года назад +5

    At least we get a video of a WKBS Signoff. Not the one we're looking for, but still.

    • @darthneon0701
      @darthneon0701  3 года назад

      What do you mean, David?

    • @davidmatthewvinotjr8396
      @davidmatthewvinotjr8396 3 года назад +3

      @@darthneon0701 that we got a WKBS signoff. BUT we're still looking for the elusive 8/30/83 final signoff

    • @darthneon0701
      @darthneon0701  3 года назад

      @@davidmatthewvinotjr8396: Don't worry, the audio exists!

    • @davidmatthewvinotjr8396
      @davidmatthewvinotjr8396 3 года назад +4

      I was meaning the actual video. I know the audio is out there, just looking for actual video footage.

    • @shanerollins3736
      @shanerollins3736 2 года назад +2

      The video was on Retro Junk around 2008-2010, so it does exist.

  • @pernelldh
    @pernelldh 2 года назад +3

    Their former sister station, WFLD in Chicago had "Thought for Today."

  • @mikesmemoriesfromthepast89
    @mikesmemoriesfromthepast89 9 месяцев назад +2

    Dan Foley was the WKBS announcer.

  • @jareddicarlo7816
    @jareddicarlo7816 8 месяцев назад +1

    I’ve had a lot of trouble finding the later whereabouts of Rev. McFadden. Apparently he was still around when Fuzzy originally posted this video in 2008/9, but his trail goes cold after that.

    • @darthneon0701
      @darthneon0701  8 месяцев назад

      Because so much time has passed, I can only assume that he died a long time ago.

    • @fathermattguckin6375
      @fathermattguckin6375 8 месяцев назад +2

      He’s actually retired now. Just saw him recently

    • @jareddicarlo7816
      @jareddicarlo7816 8 месяцев назад

      @@fathermattguckin6375 Good to hear! I hope he's doing well!

  • @daviddavenport1485
    @daviddavenport1485 3 года назад +3

    The good Father spoke well

  • @jayrogers8255
    @jayrogers8255 2 года назад +2

    The way it should be: with static at the end!

  • @lavontreyclarke3285
    @lavontreyclarke3285 3 года назад +4

    "This concludes our program service for today. We welcome your comment with regard to programming. Address your correspondence to: Kenneth "T" McDonald: Vice President and General Manager, WKBS-TV, 3201, South 26th St., Philadelphia, Pa. 19145; or call (215-336-6400); N.J. and Del residents, call (800-523-2820). WKBS is located in Philadelphia with our transmitter in Roxborough. Our microwave transmission link is KTQ-37. WKBS-TV Channel 48 is a member of the National Association of Broadcasters and a member of the Association of Independent Television Stations. Some of today's programming has been mechanically reproduced. WKBS is owned and operated by Field Communications, a Field Enterprises Company. Other Field Communications television station severe Boston, San Francisco, Detroit and Chicago. Until later today at 6AM when we return to the air with "Headline News Update," WKBS-TV wishes you a pleasant good night and good morning. And now, our national anthem."

    • @pernelldh
      @pernelldh 2 года назад +1

      Wish FC should have owned a couple of stations in Cleveland and Los Angeles too. But unfortunately, it's not to be. :(

    • @jacobgroce6613
      @jacobgroce6613 2 года назад +1

      YES ...final someone has a memory of how broadcasting used to be

  • @tupac280001
    @tupac280001 3 года назад +2

    I hope you post a full wkbs 48 sign on with same ownership as this sign off

    • @darthneon0701
      @darthneon0701  3 года назад +1

      Okay, I'll do that as soon as possible.

    • @tupac280001
      @tupac280001 2 года назад

      How soon b4 a field com wkbs 48 sign on gets posted?

    • @darthneon0701
      @darthneon0701  2 года назад +1

      @@tupac280001 Unfortunately, I don't know.