Amazing the power this video and music evoked in thousands of people who watched and listened to it as KRON went to bed each night. I recall seeing it first around 1980 and was mesmerized, as so many below attest, by the music and images. It always gave a special and peaceful, hopeful, yet somehow melancholic feeling while comforting as well. It still does. But in the wee pre dawn hours of one's youth, when the night was calm, still, quiet, this piece signaled for so many of us not only a day ending but a chapter of our lives, some ending, some beginning.
I FOUND IT! This is such a lovely sign-off! I was 20 and working between college semesters at Oscar's Hamburgers in Berkeley and I'd come home late after closing at midnight and I'd watch the rest of the movie and this would come on afterwards. One of the loveliest, most beautiful sign-offs featuring the music of Gabriel Faure.
Many, many mornings for years, I would wake up to this after attempting to watch a movie, then falling asleep...It's amazing that, decades later, a television sign-off could evoke such placid memories...Thank you for the posting...
The BEST sign-off music and film . . . ever! The other great one was on KCBS radio with Ken Akerman. "Music Till Dawn" Damn, I miss this quality of entertainment.
Sometime before 1970, when I had the privilege of staying up later so that my mother could comb out my hair and put rollers in it before I went to bed; sometimes this came on at the end of their broadcast day. It seemed melancholy to me then and still does. Some music makes me feel that things will not always be as they are, so remember this moment. Like a snapshot in time, I can see that moment when I hear that music again.
I remember when Bay Area stations used to do this. One of the few stations the broadcast all night was"the Perfect 36?" I think it was the one that a local car dealership sponsored the overnight movies. They had the "price slasher" that was "hackin' and a hewin" car prices! When I got into broadcasting in the 90s, I worked the evening shift for a small radio station. Every night at 11pm I would play the sign off. It consisted of our station ID, location of transmitter and studio, wattage, FCC approval date, how to get in touch with management, and a thank you to our sponsors and listeners. It was voiced over by the station owner. Her son, a sometimes musician, played the smooth jazz background music. Then I would physically shut down the transmitter. The morning person had to be there early. They would reboot the transmitter, which took a little time. Most high-powered transmitters then still had tubes.
@manthony1956 I'd almost forgotten about Channel 36 and the All Night Movie-Go-Round! I think the car dealer was named Jay Brown, with his Lil Ol Guy the Price Slasher just a-hackin and a-hewin. Thanks for that memory!
I used to stay up specifically to watch this. Never knew what the piece was until recently. I'm so glad someone recorded and posted this. Thank you, Gabriel Foret for composing Pavane, and thank you KRON for working with the Archdiocese etc al to compose this Meditations piece.
WOW...this goes to show you can find almost ANYTHING on CZcams! LOL I was looking for cause the song had popped into my head, and decided to search just out of curiousity and here it is. I love this tune. And the video with it. For some reason it reminds me of when I was a child and used to go to Ocean Beach Amuesment Park in the 60's. In the 70's, I'd stay up late just to watch this video and listen to the music. Thanks for posting this cool tune.
I am a native Californian from San Leandro and Oakland; California is CROAKING, and I JUST HATE THAT HAPPENING. Been a FAR WEST MICHIGANDER since 5/22/2004; I'm doing more than just fine. If anyone CARES, I WON OAKLAND UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT'S SPELLING CHAMPIONSHIP IN 1981 and 1983. Your video evoked some serious memories needing unleashment. As others've said, THANK YOU for posting this.
These were gentler times, I can't imagine seeing this on any station today, sadly. We have become coarse and vulgar. Thank for posting and reminding us there was a nicer world.
Thank you for uploading a piece of Bay Area history and an important piece of my personal history. 11:00 news - Saturday Night Live (when it was good) - SCTV - Weekend (Linda Ellerbee & Lloyd Dobbins) - Showtime at the Apollo - sign-off
This music and this video takes me back to happier times. On Friday nights I would stay up late to watch the Midnight Special and this, just to hear THIS music. Hearing it is like taking a bittersweet trip back in time. Today's generation, music and technology SUCKS.
Ummmm … Except that now you don't have to stay up until 3 a.m. to hear it. You can cue up Fauré's Pavane on CZcams whenever you feel like it. That's progress of a sort, isn't it?
This was a better time, and better people. No folks walking around with their heads up their ass or their eyes glued to their cell phones. Thanks for posting this great TV sign-off music.
Back in 1980 ~ 83, I use to work the sign-off shift at KNTV (San Jose's ABC affiliate station back then - now an NBC owned and operated). I would have TV handy, just to catch KRON's goodnight.
I recognize Yosemite’s Vernal and Nevada Falls in this film. There was a TV station in Vancouver, BC in 1970 that used to sign off with “Something” by the Beatles. I thought it was so cool.
Instead of TV signing off now, we now have pretty much all the channels 24 seven. Now late at night sometimes, you can catch a religious TV program on, or pre-paid programming. I actually do remember this growing up.
Kayanda Eddings right? I remember So Cal sign offs, including the rare ones for stations across the baha border, cause I lived within that area for 10 years outta my life. As for northern and central, only caught those when visiting the area.
That's correct, Nickfan001; from 2002, when KRON lost the NBC affiliation to KNTV, until 2006, KRON was an independent station. In the fall of 2006, however, they became the Bay Area affiliate for My Network TV.
Still remember this one from my childhood. Glad somebody was able to find it, even in this admittedly dog-eared form. BTW, it bears more than a slight resemblance to the movie shown to the dying Edward G. Robinson character in "Soylent Green"!
KRON lost the NBC affiliation after some bitter back-and-forth over money and carrying the full NBC schedule. It went to MyNetwork in 2006. Details here en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KRON-TV#Loss_of_NBC_affiliation_(1999%E2%80%932001)
does anyone remember the older version of the national anthem at sign off? as I recall, it featured the national guard, with a Huey flying West towards the Golden Gate bridge.
I recognize this song. It's the "Pavone" by Gabriel Faure. In the year 2000, it was adapted for the song "Dream A Dream" by Charlotte Church & Billy Gillman. Wow! We know more about classical music than we think!
The KRON signoff is a comforting reminder of younger days. The squirrel eating always made me cry, because it “looked lonely.” Derrick W, I wrote a letter (yes, a letter!) to KRON in 1970, asking what the music was. I got a personal, typed letter back from KRON, telling me it was Faure’s Pavane. Those were simpler times. The little furnished apartment I rented for $135./month now rents for $1800./month! So glad to be able to see this again.
I liked the squirrel best, that's what I always remembered most and waited for in the song. I first saw this the first day I moved there in June 1974. I was staying at a SF condo near the Ferry Building, before we moved to a house in San Carlos. I don't think they always followed it with the Star Spangled Banner, though. or maybe a different version of it.
Stephen Nichols, it gave me a deja vu moment reading your comment just now. I was sitting my little Washington St apartment a few blocks away from SCU, watching the same thing you were watching, possibly at the same time. And now reading something like this over the Internet is a trip! Tempus fugit.
Yup, I remember this. After a late movie, I always looked forward to hearing this piece. I have Pavane on my Channel. Where the hell was Mt Sutro? Nevermind, I googled it....lol.
I agree with morykwas....I rmemeber this well and then I would change the channel and turn on the all night movies with Tom Labries from labrie's water bed wherehouse. Ugh! we are getting old
Or recorded on a different VCR. I recorded shows all the time on SLP and never had tracking problems. Never saw a drop in quality in the picture either.
Sometime in 1989 KRON went 24/7. KGO did the same thing except they continued to go off-air late Sunday nights for years, even after ABC World News debuted when KGO shoehorned the sign off period to come back on at 3 am for WNN.
Amazing the power this video and music evoked in thousands of people who watched and listened to it as KRON went to bed each night. I recall seeing it first around 1980 and was mesmerized, as so many below attest, by the music and images. It always gave a special and peaceful, hopeful, yet somehow melancholic feeling while comforting as well. It still does. But in the wee pre dawn hours of one's youth, when the night was calm, still, quiet, this piece signaled for so many of us not only a day ending but a chapter of our lives, some ending, some beginning.
A time and place we can never revisit...happier times.
I FOUND IT! This is such a lovely sign-off! I was 20 and working between college semesters at Oscar's Hamburgers in Berkeley and I'd come home late after closing at midnight and I'd watch the rest of the movie and this would come on afterwards. One of the loveliest, most beautiful sign-offs featuring the music of Gabriel Faure.
holy shit paul! i did sound with dresher for a little while and we toured a bit together with terry riley and rinde. rip oscars!
Many, many mornings for years, I would wake up to this after attempting to watch a movie, then falling asleep...It's amazing that, decades later, a television sign-off could evoke such placid memories...Thank you for the posting...
Many a night I would wake up to hear this sign off. I can't imagine a gentler sign off
Me too. This would actually wake me up! I think they upped the volume or did something to wake you up.
I always loved their logo. Incorporating the 4 into the Golden Gate Bridge was really clever and great symbol for the area.
It really does, classic for its time
This... this is one of my favourite classical pieces of all time! ;~; It reminds me of... happier times.
The BEST sign-off music and film . . . ever!
The other great one was on KCBS radio with Ken Akerman.
"Music Till Dawn"
Damn, I miss this quality of entertainment.
Sometime before 1970, when I had the privilege of staying up later so that my mother could comb out my hair and put rollers in it before I went to bed; sometimes this came on at the end of their broadcast day. It seemed melancholy to me then and still does. Some music makes me feel that things will not always be as they are, so remember this moment. Like a snapshot in time, I can see that moment when I hear that music again.
I remember when Bay Area stations used to do this. One of the few stations the broadcast all night was"the Perfect 36?" I think it was the one that a local car dealership sponsored the overnight movies. They had the "price slasher" that was "hackin' and a hewin" car prices! When I got into broadcasting in the 90s, I worked the evening shift for a small radio station. Every night at 11pm I would play the sign off. It consisted of our station ID, location of transmitter and studio, wattage, FCC approval date, how to get in touch with management, and a thank you to our sponsors and listeners. It was voiced over by the station owner. Her son, a sometimes musician, played the smooth jazz background music. Then I would physically shut down the transmitter. The morning person had to be there early. They would reboot the transmitter, which took a little time. Most high-powered transmitters then still had tubes.
@manthony1956 I'd almost forgotten about Channel 36 and the All Night Movie-Go-Round! I think the car dealer was named Jay Brown, with his Lil Ol Guy the Price Slasher just a-hackin and a-hewin. Thanks for that memory!
They aired 24 hours a day except Sunday.
Power had to be applied to the filaments first and have time to warm up.
J.Brown. Remember I don't pick these here movies.
Brings back wonderful memories when I was young about a million years ago.
When tv had the class to go off at night.
I used to stay up specifically to watch this. Never knew what the piece was until recently. I'm so glad someone recorded and posted this. Thank you, Gabriel Foret for composing Pavane, and thank you KRON for working with the Archdiocese etc al to compose this Meditations piece.
Me too. And the composer is Faure'.
I would stay up for it, too. Magic.
That's Gabriel "Faure",
WOW...this goes to show you can find almost ANYTHING on CZcams! LOL I was looking for cause the song had popped into my head, and decided to search just out of curiousity and here it is. I love this tune. And the video with it. For some reason it reminds me of when I was a child and used to go to Ocean Beach Amuesment Park in the 60's. In the 70's, I'd stay up late just to watch this video and listen to the music. Thanks for posting this cool tune.
I am a native Californian from San Leandro and Oakland; California is CROAKING, and I JUST HATE THAT HAPPENING. Been a FAR WEST MICHIGANDER since 5/22/2004; I'm doing more than just fine. If anyone CARES, I WON OAKLAND UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT'S SPELLING CHAMPIONSHIP IN 1981 and 1983. Your video evoked some serious memories needing unleashment. As others've said, THANK YOU for posting this.
These were gentler times, I can't imagine seeing this on any station today, sadly. We have become coarse and vulgar. Thank for posting and reminding us there was a nicer world.
Very true. Sign offs are very relaxing
Just went back in time. Wonderful!!
I love it ! it takes me back along time ago
Thank you for uploading a piece of Bay Area history and an important piece of my personal history.
11:00 news - Saturday Night Live (when it was good) - SCTV - Weekend (Linda Ellerbee & Lloyd Dobbins) - Showtime at the Apollo - sign-off
One of my favorite memories growing up. Still Love Pavane.
This music and this video takes me back to happier times. On Friday nights I would stay up late to watch the Midnight Special and this, just to hear THIS music. Hearing it is like taking a bittersweet trip back in time. Today's generation, music and technology SUCKS.
probably what our parents thought about the music of our time.
Ummmm … Except that now you don't have to stay up until 3 a.m. to hear it. You can cue up Fauré's Pavane on CZcams whenever you feel like it. That's progress of a sort, isn't it?
I only recognize Pavane because I've heard a remix of it.
Yes, you are right. And it's a special memory that I can now share with my daughter.
I was going to ask what's the name of the peice, but now I don't need to, Thank you.
This was a better time, and better people. No folks walking around with their heads up their ass
or their eyes glued to their cell phones. Thanks for posting this great TV sign-off music.
Absolutely!
I staid up late as a teenager just to watch and hear this beautiful sign off! Thank you for preserving it!!
Back in 1980 ~ 83, I use to work the sign-off shift at KNTV (San Jose's ABC affiliate station back then - now an NBC owned and operated). I would have TV handy, just to catch KRON's goodnight.
I remember KNTV, station with a 11 on the wedge
I've always loved KRON's logo.. Could pick them up in my part of South Sacramento via antenna as a kid in the 80's and 90's..
I recognize Yosemite’s Vernal and Nevada Falls in this film.
There was a TV station in Vancouver, BC in 1970 that used to sign off with “Something” by the Beatles. I thought it was so cool.
I'll watch this if I can't get to sleep at night. It's so calm, and peaceful.
Brings back so many memories as a kid growing up in the bay area in the 70s. Beautiful tune. Does anyone know of what song this.
Gabriel Faure’s “Pavane”.
@@Channel-lb1is thanks
Instead of TV signing off now, we now have pretty much all the channels 24 seven. Now late at night sometimes, you can catch a religious TV program on, or pre-paid programming. I actually do remember this growing up.
TV sign offs were mostly gone and replaced by paid programming by the early-mid 90's.
Kayanda Eddings right? I remember So Cal sign offs, including the rare ones for stations across the baha border, cause I lived within that area for 10 years outta my life. As for northern and central, only caught those when visiting the area.
That's correct, Nickfan001; from 2002, when KRON lost the NBC affiliation to KNTV, until 2006, KRON was an independent station. In the fall of 2006, however, they became the Bay Area affiliate for My Network TV.
omg been looking for this
wonderful memories...
Still remember this one from my childhood. Glad somebody was able to find it, even in this admittedly dog-eared form.
BTW, it bears more than a slight resemblance to the movie shown to the dying Edward G. Robinson character in "Soylent Green"!
So cool, thanks for posting this. Love the music and images, when I was a kid it reminded me of Soylent Green.
Kron is no longer an NBC affiliate. But Kron still is on. And there logo is just a red dot with a white number 4.
KRON lost the NBC affiliation after some bitter back-and-forth over money and carrying the full NBC schedule. It went to MyNetwork in 2006. Details here en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KRON-TV#Loss_of_NBC_affiliation_(1999%E2%80%932001)
does anyone remember the older version of the national anthem at sign off? as I recall, it featured the national guard, with a Huey flying West towards the Golden Gate bridge.
I recognize this song. It's the "Pavone" by Gabriel Faure. In the year 2000, it was adapted for the song "Dream A Dream" by Charlotte Church & Billy Gillman. Wow! We know more about classical music than we think!
I remember this very well too. I remember KRON using this sign-off as early as 1981 but I'm sure they used it before then.
The KRON signoff is a comforting reminder of younger days. The squirrel eating always made me cry, because it “looked lonely.” Derrick W, I wrote a letter (yes, a letter!) to KRON in 1970, asking what the music was. I got a personal, typed letter back from KRON, telling me it was Faure’s Pavane. Those were simpler times. The little furnished apartment I rented for $135./month now rents for $1800./month! So glad to be able to see this again.
I liked the squirrel best, that's what I always remembered most and waited for in the song. I first saw this the first day I moved there in June 1974. I was staying at a SF condo near the Ferry Building, before we moved to a house in San Carlos. I don't think they always followed it with the Star Spangled Banner, though. or maybe a different version of it.
@@AuntieMHere I was just going to say that about the squirrel part! 🥲
@@1in1000000 So many of us old folks these days are like that lonely squirrel... 💝
@@AuntieMHere As long as we have nuts to eat, we’ll be OK. 😊
I always love it when they sign off with the national anthem. 😁👍
The building seen at 2:25 is the schoolhouse seen in Hitchcock's "The Birds"
I always looked forward to this when I studied at Santa Clara University.. I'm now retired. Where did the time go?
Stephen Nichols, it gave me a deja vu moment reading your comment just now. I was sitting my little Washington St apartment a few blocks away from SCU, watching the same thing you were watching, possibly at the same time. And now reading something like this over the Internet is a trip! Tempus fugit.
Thank you. Love it.
Yup, I remember this. After a late movie, I always looked forward to hearing this piece. I have Pavane on my Channel.
Where the hell was Mt Sutro? Nevermind, I googled it....lol.
the artist and name is directly underneath the total number of views.
I was such a night owl back then. Thank God the TV stations went off the air so I would finally hit the sack.
No, but when I moved to nearby Los Osos in 1980, we had KTVU and KQED.
I watched this when I finished studying college classes for the night
@mnestic I agree. This is waaaaaaay better than the one they have now.
Time to turn off the set, good night!☝️
the beginning of this would put me to sleep.
Relaxing and gorgeous instrumental!🎼
Nicer times...
Wow! I found this closing so moving and a bit scary as the person below me (vividwatch) commented. Thanks for posting this.
The SOGP spiel, featured in a recently-uploaded 1981 signoff is gone; I think it was dropped by 1983.
The National Anthem at the end reminds me of "Poltergeist"
They're here, and they need TP for their bungholes!
oh wow I thought this was a KQED sign off because it's so beautiful, like they did to them. I missed this, thanks.
I agree with morykwas....I rmemeber this well and then I would change the channel and turn on the all night movies with Tom Labries from labrie's water bed wherehouse. Ugh! we are getting old
too bad about the tracking issue - must have been recorded in SLP/EP.
I love the beautiful pictures and the piece, it is relaxing!😴
Or recorded on a different VCR. I recorded shows all the time on SLP and never had tracking problems. Never saw a drop in quality in the picture either.
If any of you are Metallica fans, this is where James got his inspiration to write the intro to “Battery”.
The only classic sign-off of any tv closer. And that's the bottom line cause Stone Cold said so (from 976-CREOLEMAN)!
No I know I have to go to sleep.
Anyone know what or where the structure at 0:25 is?
It's the Dutch Windmill in Golden Gate Park. It has since been restored to working order. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Gate_Park_windmills
Thanks. It looked familiar. I probably saw it when I was a kid. The site was much more visible back then.
This right here is the reason Battery by Metallica exists.
I like their logo!
So do I.
Pavane composed by Gabriel Faure.
When Exactly Did KRON-TV 4 Stop Signing Off At Night And Switched To 24 Hour Programming?
Sometime in 1989 KRON went 24/7. KGO did the same thing except they continued to go off-air late Sunday nights for years, even after ABC World News debuted when KGO shoehorned the sign off period to come back on at 3 am for WNN.
I remember this! One of the most beautiful pieces of music. Faure's Pavane.
Thanks for mentioning this piece of music!
A frisson-eliciting melody!
Too sleepy to get up and shut off the TV