WOWT 6 Omaha - Calendar of Events and Sign-Off (3-4-1978)
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- WOWT ends its broadcast day with station promos (check out the late Dale Munson with the small pointer stick in front of that big weather map :D), Omaha Symphony spot, and Calendar of Events which shows various well known landmarks and places throughout Omaha. The female voice announcer, which I don't recall her name, is heard mentioning upcoming events throughout the Omaha metro area. She has been doing voiceovers for station promos and local TV ads for years. After that is the sign-off, with the usual sequence of the station ID, Program Director with station address, a National Anthem film (in this clip SSB "Homecoming"), 1965 NAB Seal of Good Practice logo slide, and back to station ID. All voice announced by Dale Munson, aside from his weathercasting duties.
In addition, after when the station cuts the juice, garbled audio bleed surfaces from KEZO-FM, way back when it was an easy-listening station, hence the 'EZ' in the call letters, and six months before it would famously become 'Z-92 The Rock Station' while keeping the call letters intact. The song heard here is "Calypso" by John Denver.
"63rd day of our 29th year of broadcasting."
Talk about being precise! 👍
Showing you this was done live. But then again...
That must mean that they startec broadcasting in 1949, since 1979 will be their 30th anniversary.
@@NEPatriot At least they had a tradition if that was started at the very beginning of the channel.
Well, what do you know? It's a pre-Dallas John McCaa. He just recently retired from WFAA in Dallas after three decades.
The WOWT Channel 6 in Omaha sign-off from 1978 as a then CBS Affiliate, marked the conclusion of its broadcast day. And Gray Television is the parent company which now owns and operates WOWT Channel 6, which is now affiliated with NBC.
This is amazing to see...all big three Omaha sign-offs. I note on WOWT the TV Code spiel is the same one used on KRON-TV in San Francisco from their sign-off in the late 1970's. I then realize that WOWT and KRON were both Chronicle Broadcasting stations.
This is sure a find...thanks so much for posting. I was 8 at the time and I vaguely remember the typewriter sound on WOWT news advertisement segments.
Omaha native here. So glad I found your channel :)
I have a recording somewhere of that SSB film as it was aired on a station in Rockford, IL.
6:58 I love this song!
Time to hold a seance (or an exorcism).
My Grandma used to have an audio casette recording of 94.1 WOW-FM from about the same time period. WOW had a country format back then. For how long, I don't know. Two of the songs I remember from the tape are Greasy Grit Gravy and Gizzard Greens by Bobby Bare, and Home Grown Tomatoes (What would life be without homegrown tomatoes?) by Guy Clark. Even though I'm a rock/alternative listener generally, it was super cool to hear Grandma's tape of an Omaha radio station from the late 1970's, played in about 1993 while living with my Grandma and Grandpa in southern Missouri. They had left Omaha in 1979 when they retired.
One of the reasons KMTV and WOWT switched networks in 1986 was WOWT's ability to reach Lincoln, where until 2014, no NBC affiliate existed until KSNB-TV came into the Lincoln market, since Lincoln has had a CBS affiliate, KOLN-TV since 1954.
The station where Johnny Carson got his start.
Join Us Again Tomorrow Morning For more of WOWT tv 6, Good Night!
6:41 WOWT started broadcasting on August 29, 1949. Doing the math, it would be October 30, 1977, but the title says 3-4-1978 (March 4), which would mean by full calendar year, “63rd day of our 29th year of telecasting” is correct. If you go by first airdate, however, again, it’d be 10-30-1977.
Recorded 40 years ago
after the sign off wowt has a song probably from its radio station
Back then WOWT's newscasts were called Action News. They would be until the early 90's.
Anne Peterson?! Is that the same woman who became a big-time TV anchor in Kansas City?
Strange noises and feedback after the broadcast day ends. I hear John Denver's Calypso playing off key. Was this an FM station echoing in the channel 6 frequency? I do remember that you could hear channel 6 at 87.7.
Probably was.
trippy!
Yeah, I heard it too. What's so strange about it is that during Calypso, you can hear the recording being sped up("Chipmunk-ed) for a second or two several times as well. To me, it seems that the tape could have had that recording of the radio interference/feedback on the whole side originally, and that the person recorded WOWT over what had already been there. Most likely though, all that interference was what could be heard on Channel 6 with a decent antenna after WOWT went off the air back in the days when television sets didn't automatically mute weak signals. Some of the interference was definitely spilling over from the AM band. I know that sound. Some of it appeared to be FM as well. As far as what could be heard playing the John Denver, my #1 guess is some overbleed of KGOR. My #2 guess is part of KFAB. It is almost like art the way the recording of the interference-type stuff sounds. I think the noise group Negativland would have loved it, back when The Weatherman was still around!
@@Voetistasneua My guess is that the VCR lost sync once the TV carrier signed off and therefore kept speeding up and slowing down , thus the creepy effects on the FM music.
Was WOWT an NBC Station back then?!
The anchorwoman doing the reading around 2:30 sounds somewhat like Trina Creighton.
Can anyone tell me if WOWT has always been located at 35th and Farnam or if they were located elsewhere before moving to their current location?
They've always been there, since 1949. I've been in the studios, and if you look closely in the ceiling, you can see the old decommissioned lights, still there, that have "WOW-TV" stenciled on them. (The "T" was added to the call sign in 1975.)
31 meteorologists? WOWT only has three now: Rusty Lord, Brad Sugden, and Peta Sheerwood; KMTV has four (though I only know of Ryan McPike and Jennifer Zepplin), and KETV has three (I only know of Bill Randby).
They probably used the services of AccuWeather, in which the local meteorologists get their reports from multiple meteorologists at the AccuWeather headquarters near Penn State (a school that certainly gets plenty of hate every time it goes to Nebraska). It's a branding used by many other local stations for their weathercasts, and I guarantee you the Omaha stations used as many meteorologists then (when you didn't have to have an AMS or NWA certification) as they do now (where AMS or NWA certification is pretty much a necessity in Tornado Alley).
@@stantheman8609 Wow, I had no idea AccuWeather had been around for that long!
2:42 Omaha's Rosenblatt Stadium
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I'm suprised it didn't cut to say, the Indian Head test card. But then smaller stations probably wouldn't have personalized test cards (Maybe Station ID on Color Bars, idk)
(also the second half is basically a demon chant lol)
The noise of the TV is very funny!