I love YouTube. It has revolutionized Internet entertainment.

About 4 years ago, I mention in a post how growing up, TV sign offs scared me. I'm a child of Poltergeist. Not only did sign offs scare me, but around 11:00 PM, if the conditions were just right, I could hear the recording of "Taps" played from Headquarters during the time we lived at Ft. Bragg.

Well, YouTube has allowed me to not only talk about it, but I can now share the experience. I bring you some sign-offs of my childhood:

WKFT was the local independent station in Fayetteville. This sign off in from 1993. I was 14. WKFT was the station I watched on weekends when nothing else was on. At the time, we only had 40 stations on cable. There was bound to be nothing on Nickelodeon and Vh1 some days.

This is from WRAL in 1989. We had just moved to Ft. Bragg at this time.

From WPFT in 1988, the year before we moved to North Carolina. I probably saw this one as well.

In the Fayetteville area, we had not one, but 2 NBC affiliates. WECT in Wilmington was carried on our cable system. Somehow, their sign off it the one I do remember watching the most during my North Carolina days. Later in my time in NC, the image shown during sign-off was some sort of space themed background.

Yes, I am bored on a Saturday afternoon and thought I'd browse YouTube. I don't know how I came across this subject, but I did. Just thought I'd share, even if it's just for me.

Posted by Shawn at June 23, 2007 4:56 PM in YouTube.