For all intents and purposes, analog broadcast television that we all grew up with is gone. The frequencies will be reallocated for other usage and the age of digital broadcast television begins.Before the age of all night infomercials, television stations used to sign off for the broadcasting day. After a playing of the national anthem, you might see a test pattern like the one above or just some color bars and tone and the picture might just turn to static.
Every station seemed to have it's own distinctive national anthem film.
I absolutely love this KABC-7 sign off from 1982 that features the reading of the John Gillespie Magee, Jr. poem, High Flight, followed by a version of the national anthem played on synthesizers.
























































