I lived in Texarkana in 1978 for a short while. I remember this sign off. Memories.
@adeverger2 ай бұрын
I just died. I am from Shreveport. This song taught me to be a patriot. I am in NYC for 30 years with people who hate our country. Sad.
@duncanwilkins21332 ай бұрын
Grew up in Lufkin watching this S'port tv station and their sign off
@Rexag2 ай бұрын
Yeah... they should still be playing this.... it stands for none of the propaganda. You let others dictate your life...take it back!
@David-yw2lv5 ай бұрын
Hardly any stations left that don't operate 24/7/365(366 in leap years) now.If nothing else,they play infomercials in early morning hours
@VistaLivesIncAgain5 ай бұрын
R.I.P KTBS 3 Analog ????-1999
@Orangekirby-o2x6 ай бұрын
I remember watching this in the 80s when I was 10, and I used to live this song, it reminded me on how my mom used to help guide me to this path. It's really sad.
@1stSaintsFan7 ай бұрын
Only Elvis doing it better.
@jasonq703 Жыл бұрын
Many nights as a kid I remember watching this.😥 Time goes by too fast.
@tywanjackson2320 Жыл бұрын
As a kid in the 80s i use to stay up to watch the tv sign off.
@SpadeCaller Жыл бұрын
Is that THE Al Legrand doing the voice work?
@2011paramedic2 жыл бұрын
Was a Shreveport Louisiana Tv Station KTBS Channel 3 an ABC affiliate or a CBS affiliate back then from 1975?!
@devares20067 ай бұрын
It was (and still is) an ABC affiliate. The announcer even said it at 3:48.
@moribundart2 жыл бұрын
home
@Texoma_Mikes_Garage2 жыл бұрын
Such a fond memory of this simpler time. If I was up I'd turn on the TV just to close the night out with this beautiful rendition and sign off. Brings a tear to my eye today.
@fireindahole857 Жыл бұрын
Racist times
@17z4832 жыл бұрын
Louisiana Public Broadcasting Closedown 1999
@richardkimble65863 жыл бұрын
Help me remember, I swear KTBS updated the video to use Elvis version of this song. Am I right?
@mudstaind263 жыл бұрын
Anyone got a link to the "3's on your side" song from the 80's/early 90's? "Working hard for you channel threeeeeee KTBS..." Surely some of ya'll remember it.
@JBBrickman Жыл бұрын
So I remember seeing this comment last year and you got me interested myself in finding it. Ive searched around KZread off and on and I just found it today! Here ya go: kzread.info/dash/bejne/iaGmqMtyeafHgrw.html
@butanebandit4 жыл бұрын
I still remember staying up and seeing this right after the "Big Movie" on Saturday night. Now I recall how Reisor Bowden and other announcers referred to the station as "Television Three" through the early 80's. Lovely, even though it used stock footage. I wish someone could dig out Channel 12's sign-on film they used around the same time. If I remember it correctly, they probably shot all of it themselves with beautiful scenery around the Shreveport area, and then aerial footage of their tower near Mooringsport (before it fell down that one time). The music used was a John Denver instrumental. I can't remember the announcer's name but he also did local commercials like for Powell Buick-GMC.
@jefferygreening5665 Жыл бұрын
Bob Weimar was the staff announcer at KSLA in those days.
@butanebandit Жыл бұрын
@@jefferygreening5665 Wow, I knew his first name was Bob but I couldn't remember his last name. Thanks
@jetdriver269 ай бұрын
The big movie intro used to be on KZread. Don't know what happened to it.
@jareddicarlo78164 жыл бұрын
I’ve watched this video a few times now, but I’m only now just noticing the plane that crosses in front of the sun at 4:12.
@bobbye.wright44244 жыл бұрын
Im from shreveport la i growed up listening at this song i hate what it stands for but i love the song n video
@anthonythomas1750Ай бұрын
And what do you think it stands for?
@bryceupchurch23064 жыл бұрын
Us 11 years later
@tomloft20004 жыл бұрын
young people still can't believe that TV used to shut down every night.
@stanleytryhard18255 жыл бұрын
Poll: how many would give up cells, the internet and Amazon and go back to the Princess and the brick remote if it was a requirement to be transported back to these times? Simpler, yes, less technical, but nobody really knew the difference, did they? I wonder if B Gates ever gets nostalgic lol
@bryceupchurch23065 жыл бұрын
Omg this is right by my old house
@mrceleb20065 жыл бұрын
The music heard in the background is "I Wish I Was in Dixie" by whoever sang this song...BTW, there's no SSB film or test pattern at the end!
@keithmoon31903 жыл бұрын
Actually there was, but the tape stopped recording before it was shown...
@mrceleb2006Ай бұрын
I see...BTW, during the fall of 1975, ABC (the network KTBS-TV was affiliated with) was gaining more viewers than ever before!
@dixiejuche17035 жыл бұрын
What an amazing version of Dixie. Truly beautiful. 😭
@bobbye.wright44244 жыл бұрын
Hey man i hate what it stands for but i love the song growing up and im black
@dixiejuche17034 жыл бұрын
Bobby E. Wright This land is your land too, brother. Please don’t hate it. All the sons of the South must stand together against the enemy that wishes to destroy our land and enslave all of us.
@fireindahole857 Жыл бұрын
F@ck that song and all the people who like it
@TheMymusic825 жыл бұрын
Dave, Mickey Newberry.... One of the GREATS.... I miss those days
@pkf813665 жыл бұрын
I like your style pups1678
@MarcosSilveira5 жыл бұрын
Is this the song of the European Americans from the south?
@owenwexler72146 жыл бұрын
Man that would have been a beautiful sign off montage if they hadn’t chosen an anthem of the Confederacy as background music 😬 I know it’s historic but still 😬
@Ark1j5 жыл бұрын
...but still, mama punked you out pretty good, eh Poindexter?
@StuON226 жыл бұрын
I need a time machine, everything that fits my soul is in the past.
@nightmarefuelgamer89816 жыл бұрын
They played this in the 80's as well.
@brettbousman50706 жыл бұрын
Dixie was the fight song for the Confederacy. but Battle Hymn of the Republic was the fight song of the Union. This was American Trilogy originated by Elvis. this rendition was sung by an African American man. Don't care what any Yankee says. its beautiful and I am glad I grew up in East Texas to experience this sign off across the state lines
@MrHmg555 жыл бұрын
The singer is Mickey Newbury. He's white. But it's still a beautiful rendition and video.
@brettbousman50705 жыл бұрын
Thank you to the people who posted this. good memories.
@erikpridemore31746 жыл бұрын
From the original ABC Shreveport, Louisiana Affiliate KTBS-TV sign-off, we will be hearing "An American Trilogy" by Mickey Newbury. This very same song, also played on its CBS Lafayette, Louisiana Affiliate KLFY-TV sign-off, and this reminds us of the old KXII-TV Channel 12 sign-off back in the '70s when it was played at Midnight on its then dual NBC and CBS Ardmore-Sherman-Denison-Ada Affiliate (Now CBS 12 Fox 12 and my 12) . And we love this sign-off to bring back memories.
@TuxEarth6 жыл бұрын
now this is how a sign off should've been back then. Nice, mellow, and went out with care. The sign offs here in Baltimore often frightened me as a child.....don't ask why. They just did. Maybe some of those sign offs scared any of you as a child where you live.
@FernieCanto7 жыл бұрын
Honestly, if I were a kid back in that time and I watched that on TV late at night, I'd be absolutely terrified. Such a depressing, morbid sign off, with a song about the Civil War, no less.
@Ark1j5 жыл бұрын
aw, you poor little ol sugar britches.....(no 'ifs' about it!)
@ad36737 жыл бұрын
Pups said it all in the comment below. I grew up east of Tyler and we watched Shreveport stations. This sign off is still one of my favorite memories...what a great song and what great memories. I lost both my mom and dad in 2016 and I miss them every day. Listening to this makes me feel just a little bit closer to them. Thanks spufferama for posting this. It is so very meaningful to me.
@jefferyrobertson75207 жыл бұрын
American Trilogy official soundtrack of the history of NASCAR and the Winston Cup 1948 through 1987 also 75 seasons story of the National Football League and last but not least KTBS TV channel 3 Shreveport Louisiana lastly but not least tribute to Lane Frost a rodeo champion
@lsutigers75177 жыл бұрын
This song makes me feel so sad, brings back such good memories. I'm glad I grew up during that time.
@soonerterp7 жыл бұрын
Oddity Archive sent me here.
@lesarasure27407 жыл бұрын
I loved this sign off, and I loved those days. Great memories, thanks for sharing.
@donniepitchford52697 жыл бұрын
An Ark-La-Tex classic!
@MrIveyIsBonkers8 жыл бұрын
Back then, television was much more, how should I say it? Humble? Carefree? I dunno. But back then there was little to no infomercials, no 12 hour news, and it signed off and on every night and morning. I wish I was alive back then to experience it.
@thermoj8 жыл бұрын
I was. You're right. It was great to be alive back then.
@imrustyokay7 жыл бұрын
Eh, I think it's more carefree now, Humble, no. Although, I like how they don't sign off, more of a choice for Night Owls for me.
@shawnmarengo4942 жыл бұрын
When Elvis Presley sang “Dixie” in concert, he would reduce the audience to tears.
@imrustyokay8 жыл бұрын
Damn, he wasn't kidding, this IS creepy.
@JBBrickman Жыл бұрын
How is this at all creepy, it’s beautiful, I listen to it when I drive down beautiful historic highways. You really feel connected to nature and the land listening to this song. Never got a creepy vibe from it!
@weatherstudios79648 жыл бұрын
This has to be the most heartwarming sign off i ever seen.
@fireindahole857 Жыл бұрын
Racist
@whereintrovertsmeet60888 жыл бұрын
i think him and tom hanks are related
@muzikdude11888 жыл бұрын
One of the lengthier sign-offs I've ever seen. Usually a station's sign-off took maybe 2-3 minutes at the most while this one goes on for over five minutes. Very well-done though.
@essvee869 жыл бұрын
If this really is from 1975, then you got the oldest North American sign off in KZread. There's a 1973 BBC2 sign off (or closedown, as they say over there) on KZread.
@owenwexler72146 жыл бұрын
essvee86 there’s a couple American sign offs from 1972 on here but this is definitely one of the oldest
@mr.g-manofficial63919 жыл бұрын
Nice animated seal of good practice there :)
@MinisterTyler9 жыл бұрын
I remember staying up past bedtime and after this was over you would just get a constant tone. Times were so much better and simple. Sometimes I wish we could go back in some ways. Wow! Brings back lots of memories.
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I lived in Texarkana in 1978 for a short while. I remember this sign off. Memories.
I just died. I am from Shreveport. This song taught me to be a patriot. I am in NYC for 30 years with people who hate our country. Sad.
Grew up in Lufkin watching this S'port tv station and their sign off
Yeah... they should still be playing this.... it stands for none of the propaganda. You let others dictate your life...take it back!
Hardly any stations left that don't operate 24/7/365(366 in leap years) now.If nothing else,they play infomercials in early morning hours
R.I.P KTBS 3 Analog ????-1999
I remember watching this in the 80s when I was 10, and I used to live this song, it reminded me on how my mom used to help guide me to this path. It's really sad.
Only Elvis doing it better.
Many nights as a kid I remember watching this.😥 Time goes by too fast.
As a kid in the 80s i use to stay up to watch the tv sign off.
Is that THE Al Legrand doing the voice work?
Was a Shreveport Louisiana Tv Station KTBS Channel 3 an ABC affiliate or a CBS affiliate back then from 1975?!
It was (and still is) an ABC affiliate. The announcer even said it at 3:48.
home
Such a fond memory of this simpler time. If I was up I'd turn on the TV just to close the night out with this beautiful rendition and sign off. Brings a tear to my eye today.
Racist times
Louisiana Public Broadcasting Closedown 1999
Help me remember, I swear KTBS updated the video to use Elvis version of this song. Am I right?
Anyone got a link to the "3's on your side" song from the 80's/early 90's? "Working hard for you channel threeeeeee KTBS..." Surely some of ya'll remember it.
So I remember seeing this comment last year and you got me interested myself in finding it. Ive searched around KZread off and on and I just found it today! Here ya go: kzread.info/dash/bejne/iaGmqMtyeafHgrw.html
I still remember staying up and seeing this right after the "Big Movie" on Saturday night. Now I recall how Reisor Bowden and other announcers referred to the station as "Television Three" through the early 80's. Lovely, even though it used stock footage. I wish someone could dig out Channel 12's sign-on film they used around the same time. If I remember it correctly, they probably shot all of it themselves with beautiful scenery around the Shreveport area, and then aerial footage of their tower near Mooringsport (before it fell down that one time). The music used was a John Denver instrumental. I can't remember the announcer's name but he also did local commercials like for Powell Buick-GMC.
Bob Weimar was the staff announcer at KSLA in those days.
@@jefferygreening5665 Wow, I knew his first name was Bob but I couldn't remember his last name. Thanks
The big movie intro used to be on KZread. Don't know what happened to it.
I’ve watched this video a few times now, but I’m only now just noticing the plane that crosses in front of the sun at 4:12.
Im from shreveport la i growed up listening at this song i hate what it stands for but i love the song n video
And what do you think it stands for?
Us 11 years later
young people still can't believe that TV used to shut down every night.
Poll: how many would give up cells, the internet and Amazon and go back to the Princess and the brick remote if it was a requirement to be transported back to these times? Simpler, yes, less technical, but nobody really knew the difference, did they? I wonder if B Gates ever gets nostalgic lol
Omg this is right by my old house
The music heard in the background is "I Wish I Was in Dixie" by whoever sang this song...BTW, there's no SSB film or test pattern at the end!
Actually there was, but the tape stopped recording before it was shown...
I see...BTW, during the fall of 1975, ABC (the network KTBS-TV was affiliated with) was gaining more viewers than ever before!
What an amazing version of Dixie. Truly beautiful. 😭
Hey man i hate what it stands for but i love the song growing up and im black
Bobby E. Wright This land is your land too, brother. Please don’t hate it. All the sons of the South must stand together against the enemy that wishes to destroy our land and enslave all of us.
F@ck that song and all the people who like it
Dave, Mickey Newberry.... One of the GREATS.... I miss those days
I like your style pups1678
Is this the song of the European Americans from the south?
Man that would have been a beautiful sign off montage if they hadn’t chosen an anthem of the Confederacy as background music 😬 I know it’s historic but still 😬
...but still, mama punked you out pretty good, eh Poindexter?
I need a time machine, everything that fits my soul is in the past.
They played this in the 80's as well.
Dixie was the fight song for the Confederacy. but Battle Hymn of the Republic was the fight song of the Union. This was American Trilogy originated by Elvis. this rendition was sung by an African American man. Don't care what any Yankee says. its beautiful and I am glad I grew up in East Texas to experience this sign off across the state lines
The singer is Mickey Newbury. He's white. But it's still a beautiful rendition and video.
Thank you to the people who posted this. good memories.
From the original ABC Shreveport, Louisiana Affiliate KTBS-TV sign-off, we will be hearing "An American Trilogy" by Mickey Newbury. This very same song, also played on its CBS Lafayette, Louisiana Affiliate KLFY-TV sign-off, and this reminds us of the old KXII-TV Channel 12 sign-off back in the '70s when it was played at Midnight on its then dual NBC and CBS Ardmore-Sherman-Denison-Ada Affiliate (Now CBS 12 Fox 12 and my 12) . And we love this sign-off to bring back memories.
now this is how a sign off should've been back then. Nice, mellow, and went out with care. The sign offs here in Baltimore often frightened me as a child.....don't ask why. They just did. Maybe some of those sign offs scared any of you as a child where you live.
Honestly, if I were a kid back in that time and I watched that on TV late at night, I'd be absolutely terrified. Such a depressing, morbid sign off, with a song about the Civil War, no less.
aw, you poor little ol sugar britches.....(no 'ifs' about it!)
Pups said it all in the comment below. I grew up east of Tyler and we watched Shreveport stations. This sign off is still one of my favorite memories...what a great song and what great memories. I lost both my mom and dad in 2016 and I miss them every day. Listening to this makes me feel just a little bit closer to them. Thanks spufferama for posting this. It is so very meaningful to me.
American Trilogy official soundtrack of the history of NASCAR and the Winston Cup 1948 through 1987 also 75 seasons story of the National Football League and last but not least KTBS TV channel 3 Shreveport Louisiana lastly but not least tribute to Lane Frost a rodeo champion
This song makes me feel so sad, brings back such good memories. I'm glad I grew up during that time.
Oddity Archive sent me here.
I loved this sign off, and I loved those days. Great memories, thanks for sharing.
An Ark-La-Tex classic!
Back then, television was much more, how should I say it? Humble? Carefree? I dunno. But back then there was little to no infomercials, no 12 hour news, and it signed off and on every night and morning. I wish I was alive back then to experience it.
I was. You're right. It was great to be alive back then.
Eh, I think it's more carefree now, Humble, no. Although, I like how they don't sign off, more of a choice for Night Owls for me.
When Elvis Presley sang “Dixie” in concert, he would reduce the audience to tears.
Damn, he wasn't kidding, this IS creepy.
How is this at all creepy, it’s beautiful, I listen to it when I drive down beautiful historic highways. You really feel connected to nature and the land listening to this song. Never got a creepy vibe from it!
This has to be the most heartwarming sign off i ever seen.
Racist
i think him and tom hanks are related
One of the lengthier sign-offs I've ever seen. Usually a station's sign-off took maybe 2-3 minutes at the most while this one goes on for over five minutes. Very well-done though.
If this really is from 1975, then you got the oldest North American sign off in KZread. There's a 1973 BBC2 sign off (or closedown, as they say over there) on KZread.
essvee86 there’s a couple American sign offs from 1972 on here but this is definitely one of the oldest
Nice animated seal of good practice there :)
I remember staying up past bedtime and after this was over you would just get a constant tone. Times were so much better and simple. Sometimes I wish we could go back in some ways. Wow! Brings back lots of memories.
Michael Tyler yep
Same here