Through the 1980s and most of the 1990s, Public Television KTCI-TV UHF sister station of KTCA-TV always looked about ten years behind the main station. From having radar weather broadcasting all day to the use of slides as graphics through the 1990s made it a notch above public access but far behind any other station on the dial. Lucky this sign off from 1984 was recorded from what looks like cable to get a clear vision of what the final moments of a broadcast day might look like, it was probably 9pm?Credit: Shawn Wilsie
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CT: This had to have been from cable. KTCI had a pretty lousy signal in those days. You’d usually get a snowy picture at best. Even today, their digital signal appears to be inferior to KTCA’s.
Jeff Lonto: No national anthem at the very end, as the commercial stations used to do when they signed off.
W.B.: That this sign-off has no national anthem sounds similar to the sign-off protocol of New York-area public TV affiliate WNET Channel 13, which likewise had no national anthem when they signed off (or for that matter, when they signed on).
Howard Luloff: The music used in KTCI’s signoff was the same as KTCA’s in the 70s and 80s. KTCA had a much stronger signal than KTCI.