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KCRA Channel 3 Sacramento sign-off 1986

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KCRA was on the air 24 hours a day, with a straight feed of the CNN Headline News channel filling out the later hours, except for Sunday nights when they'd sign off with this at 12:30 AM. By 1987 they finally put in Headline News Sunday nights as well and were full 24-hours.This includes one of two versions I've seen of the "High Flight" poem with Air Force footage, followed by "Bluebird Of Happiness" which might have looked a lot nicer if the film they used wasn't so grainy and dirty.The tape this was recorded on ran out right at the end of the sign-off, so you don't get to see what happened afterwards- most of the time the screen would go white, with the station logo at the bottom and the signal would stay on with silence til sign-on time. Since 2000 KCRA has stuck its logo on the screen during all non-NBC programming, so essentially they are just a big test pattern now ;pThis is recorded from a stereo broadcast; it was common at the time for stations to run all mono material through a fake stereo processor, often with annoying results. Since the sound on YouTube is only in mono though, you will have to search elsewhere to hear this in stereo.

Channel: Entertainment
Uploaded: December 31, 1969 at 5:59 pm
Author: eyeh8cbs

Length: 07:38
Rating: 4.68
Views: 19818

Tags: 1980s  late-night  sign-off  

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jaybee1973jaybee (December 31, 1969 at 5:59 pm)
I guess that you were far enough north not to have any signal inference from KEY-T in Santa Barbara. But I think that the Santa Ynez Mountains block KEY-T from even reaching northern Santa Barbara County and San Luis Obispo County, both within KEY-T's "area of dominant influence."
akarpowicz (December 31, 1969 at 5:59 pm)
I used to stay up late to watch KCRA sign off just for Highflight and Bluebird of Happiness. But I saw an older version of highflight, which I prefer - not so much background music. Thanks for including Bluebird of Happiness. (We lived on the coast 120 miles south of Sacramento. We had a TV antenna on top of a 40 foot power pole. We would aim the antenna south and catch the signal reflecting off a hill. We got perfect reception from two Sacramento TV stations. The good old days...
Bsbkftv1 (December 31, 1969 at 5:59 pm)
excuse me eyeh8cbs, they can do hi-Q now. just re-upload and add &fmt=18 at the end of the url.
c2thaj42877 (December 31, 1969 at 5:59 pm)
5,280 ft.=a mile
chrismarshva (December 31, 1969 at 5:59 pm)
Yes, William Conrad sounds like the voice in Buck Rogers intro!
chrismarshva (December 31, 1969 at 5:59 pm)
This is just like the one we had on (used to be WDVM) WUSA-9 Washington 9 but they never showed the the sequence before the F-15s split off.
o0901325a (December 31, 1969 at 5:59 pm)
3000 or so more feet and it would be a mile!
o0901325a (December 31, 1969 at 5:59 pm)
Isn't that the same voice that did the buck roger's intro?
Cherokee5of6 (December 31, 1969 at 5:59 pm)
41K was in the open blue, and as I watched my altimeter with watchful eyes, I wondered when I would reach out my hand and touch the face of God? Then in a instance it dawned on me, he had been there all along, for I had soloed all alone...
gshowguy (December 31, 1969 at 5:59 pm)
Ah... when KCRA didn't suck. (As a kid visiting a town near Sacramento, I watched Channel 3's news quite often.)
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