I remember being a kid after the news the channel will go off the air they would play the national anthem when it went off the air I miss those days they just didn't do that anymore
I grew up in Atkins, AR, so we picked up both KFSM from Fort Smith, as well as KTHV from Little Rock. I spent many nights watching this very sign off on Channel 5.
KFSM still had this as recently as 2005. Now I think they are 24 hours but Ft Smith is a small town so they still had sign off long after big city TV stations stopped.
I remember when in the early 70s ch. 5 split time between 2 networks. My mom remembers when tv began as ch. 22 kfsa tv in the 1950s. The only tv in the area unless your aerial could get ktul tulsa 8 or little rock. I remember the days when Pat Porta did news and john chancellor did weather. I was born in the city of ft. Smith and grew up in Mulberry with the exception of 2 yrs. In San Diego, Ca. Thanks for posting.
Three memories in the first few seconds! 1) The CBS Late Movie bumper. I had no idea it was on in that era. My CBS station had those in the early seventies, but bought their own movies later on (I was in a MUCH larger market). 2) The picture jumps the instant the ID slide comes on (must not have had a time base corrector) and 3) significant ghosting due to multipath reception. Was there a big building about a mile or two away?
No, there's no tall buildings in Fort Smith like what you're thinking of that would cause such interference, unless you were downtown, but no one lived downtown in 1983.
@@leandar Ghosting and interference are two different things. Ghosting is caused by a second signal reflected off of a large object (e.g. a mountain). Your antenna captured the KFSM signal directly, but the signal was also reflected from another object (any mountain nearby?) Though the reflection was also moving at the speed of light, the reflected signal still took longer to arrive at your home than the direct signal did, thus the duller characters appear to the right of the brighter ones as the electron beam is bent further to the right. The ghosting may also have been caused by leakage from your local Cable provider. Interference is actually "unwanted" RF energy that "pollutes" the signal you wish to watch, usually causing "flashes" on the screen and "popping" in the sound.
@@1L6E6VHF Oh ok. They could have lived close to downtown as there's houses on streets heading north from there. The nearest mountains aren't close enough for that kind of interference if the person lived in Fort Smith. I wonder if it could also be maybe just that it was old? Maybe an old videotape that's lost some quality over the years? Or maybe recorded on an old TV?
+us71....not to mention Pat Porta doing the station ident right before that. Grew up watching weather with John Chandler (doing the voice-over on this video). Mainly saw Pat Porta doing ads for Plunkett Music...amongst others....had a cool sounding baritone voice...
!?! All of the earliest TV stations were in the VHF band, and KFSM is a UHF station today (sending its signal on UHF channel 18, along with a coded signal that tells your TV set to show a 5 on your screen when the tuner is in actuality receiving channel 18).
The early eighties were when the vast majority of stations went full-time. Some stations started showing movies and repeated their 11pm (ELT) newscasts later at night in 1979 and the early eighties. I believe it was 1982 when the big three rolled out overnight newscasts. (CBS Nightwatch, NBC Overnight and ABC World News Night). Most stations in top-100 markets were 24h as a result, but a few years later, the affiliate stations dropped the overnight news shows (which were roughly revenue-neutral) for infomercials (revenue-positive).
In Russian: KFSM prinadlezhit I upravlyayetsya kompaniyey TIme West Broadcasting, inc u Fort Smith, s studiyami I ofisami, raspolozhennymi poddresu 318 N. 18-y Fort Smith, KFSM yavlyaetsya affilirovannym litsom CBS KFSM, svyazannym s CBS. KFSM I teper' otimeni rukovodstva, personala I inzhenerov vechera, spokoynoy nochi I priyatnykh snovideniy.
