WOUB Signoff tape 1977
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- From December 19, 1977, WOUB-TV Athens, Ohio students and staffers Don Adams, Bill Dickhaut, Don Henley, John Prosek, Leon Smith, Tim Schrock, Sue Strohofer, Thom Whitehead, Bob Bajorek, Paul Brown, Scott Austin, Verneda Krueger, Tom Perdan, Greg Panos, Pam Wager, Rick Wagar, Mark A. ('Rusty') Smith, Ruth Reilly, Art Starkey, Bob Roehl, Jill Kleck, Robin Potter, Mike Branch, Joe Martin, Tim Peeler, Owen Snedden, Don Smith, Todd Baucher, Arline McCarthy, Art Hansen, Augustine Dempsey, Nat Rosen, Art DeGroot and Greg Hill in their native habitats, along with the genial announcer voice of Bob Beasley. Shot on videotape with those enormous Norelco PC-72 cameras and Ampex VTRs you see in several shots (cameras dragged up and down a six story building.) This is actually tightened up--an edit from four tapes into one, because the pace of editing back then was, well, glacial. Typography was from a Vidifont Mark IV.
Whoa - this station had Don Adams AND Don Henley? A true star factory!
Some truly epic '70s hair and fashion in this video!
My takeaway after watching this stuff a few times is: if you're at WOUB and not running camera or a tape machine, you're really interested in what's on a clipboard or a piece of paper.
After having worked at a local Miami station in 1998, I can tell you that the faces of the people who hold each of these individual jobs is universal.
the greatest sign-off ever imo
This is the video that introduced me to Tim Weisberg. Today, my 10 year search for _Listen to the City_ came to an end... found a nice copy for $1 at the thrift store.
This is the most amazing thing I've ever seen.
When I grow up I want to be just like Art DeGroot and be a "Videotape".
You know what this needs? More guys named Don.
This song is AMAZING! Need full version.
Love the music!
Tim Schrock looks very lost in thought...
Greg Panos looked pretty hot!!
It's mentioned in the comments here, at least once! Maybe twice! It's from Tim Weisberg's 'Listen to the City' album from the mid-70s...which I don't think ever made it to CD, let alone MP3. The Mid-70s WOUB 'Newswatch' theme was also from that album.
Thank you!
Thanks for sharing. PC-72's could make pretty pictures with a good engineer. Registering & tweaking them just right.
Solid!
This looks like a sitcom credit sequence. zooms into the faces and they smile.
But you know this small public television station wasn't in the Eastern Bloc, right? I mean, i know it's hard to tell with the hair and the clipboards. Although a small town in Southeast Ohio could seem kinda isolated sometimes.
Thank goodness.
Thanks to all the facial hair that made this possible.
I saw it as a sign off in 1981.
@jcburns I mean in appearances. I am not American, I have never been to America, so my version of American people is the one broadcast on the tv. Compared to the shiny happy people on the box today these people seem gloriously normal.
JC! Great stuff.
@wmbrown6 Yes, in fact I mention they're PC-72s right up there in the description of the video. No mention of test patterns, though.
@SchwaffelKoning It's from Tim Weisberg's 'Listen to the City' album from the mid-70s...which I don't think ever made it to CD, let alone MP3. The Mid-70s WOUB 'Newswatch' theme was also from that album.
@wmbrown6 Okay, there were two film chains. The newer, color one had an Eastman CT-500 projector, an RCA TP-66, and a Spindler and Saupe Spectrum 23 slide projector...and I believe the camera was a Cohu systems camera of some sort. The older one, a black and white only island, had a Bell and Howell and an RCA TP-7B slide projector, and the camera was some sort of awful vidicon thing, I believe.
I want the full version of the music used in this video. I mean it.
Here you go!
czcams.com/video/YwOwJftdgDQ/video.html
It was apparently used for a CBC program in the early 80's in St. John's, Newfoundland...
czcams.com/video/vgxkz_p4G-4/video.html
Haha....Saw a very young Todd Baucher...He went on to WTAP in Parkersburg, Wv.....
Bob Bajorek looks like Jim Henson.
@festyosemtex It was the 70's.
@jcburns Just found it out there in GoogleLand! There's always someone ripping their LP's that helps us out!
@jcburns Cool to get the details here!
this sounds sooooooo frank zappa (hot rats)
@samwab Keep at it and you will!
@jcburns Shame, I feel like sticking that in my PSP right now!
What was it with the ratty beards, "fros", bad moustaches, and overall awful appearance of the era? It was 10 years or so after the hippie era, was this just that still in play? I was in high school during this era, (albeit private), don't recall professionals in any field looking so shabby.
1977? everybody looked like that -except for the first punks in England.
I have another query: What film chains were used by WOUB/WOUC in those days? RCA TK-27 or 28? Or General Electric PE-240/245? Or some other brand (such as, say, Norelco - PCF-701 or LDH series from them)?
@festyosemtex In what sense? I think we were all pretty wacky.
Looks like WOUB in those days used the Norelco PC-72 cameras. (The layout on the middle "belt" differed from the earlier PC-70.)
As for test patterns: I noticed three different variations, two in the same design (each with different fonts), one of which is on:
watch?v=p2OsC5AlbrA
Would you by chance have any clips with the other variants?
What is the title of the instrumental piece? (Someone suggested it was "Terminally Chill," by Neon Indian, but this is a 1977 clip, and Neon Indian is a band that debuted in 2008.
What's the name of the instrumental piece playing in the background?
@neeeeil
Er...... no its not! But I also would like to know who REALLY wrote the piece too!!!
Remember when Americans didn't have any piercings or tattoos? I do.
Remember when Americans didn't have extra sets of eyes or limbs? I do.
PBS used to be good. Not anymore.
ah...when Americans were normal
Remember when Americans weren't fat? I do.