KPTM 42 Omaha - Sign-Off (12-14-1986) 

I watched that airing of Sixteen Candles. It was on my 16th birthday, December 13th 1986.

WOIO and KPTM, two of the FOX affiliates that have used the TVbD graphics package. AWESOME!

I believe the announcer here is Joe Patrick. I have a few tapes about Nebraska football (collectively entitled "The Cornhusker Collection") that he did narration work on in 1986. I went crazy for about five minutes here because I knew I had heard the voice before, but couldn't place it.

Did they ever use a test pattern before?

"The National Anthem... in Stereo!". It reminds me of WOIO 19 from Cleveland, Ohio.

As a child at 6 years old I was scared of the sign off. I believe at the time that ment the end of TV and time for TV to go to sleep and beyond.

I would seriously kill for the full music. I call it the “We’re Nineteen” music since I’m from Cleveland

It doesn't get much more Television by Design than this.

"We're your station, KPTM, Omaha. Portions of the day's programming have been mechanically reproduced. We're KPTM 42, Omaha. It's the policy of this station to provide equal employment opportunity to qualified applicants without regard to race, sex, religion, age, or national origin. Good evening. It's time for 42 to conclude it's broadcast day. We are KPTM 42, Omaha. KPTM is owned and operated by Pappas Telecasting of the Midlands, an equal opportunity employer, and broadcasts on Channel 42 by authority of the Federal Communications Commission. Our stereo transmitter is located between Omaha, and Lincoln, Nebraska and it delivers 5 million watts of power from its 1500ft tower. We use this power of serve the needs and interests of viewers in Eastern Nebraska and Western Iowa. At KPTM, your opinion counts. We welcome your comments and suggestions. Send them to this address: KPTM 42, 4625 Farnam Street, Omaha, Nebraska 68132. On behalf of everyone here at KPTM, we'd like to wish you a pleasant good evening. And now, our National Anthem, in stereo."

Wonder if WHNS and KMPH used this sign off and SSB upon converting to these graphics in 1988.

This is now the third station I’ve seen on RU-vid that used this sign off. WOIO in Cleveland used it from their initial sign-on in 1985 until shortly after they switched to CBS. WTGI in Wilmington, DE used it as well, but they used a different piece of music than the one heard here and in the WOIO version. Did all of the TVBD stations use this?

KPTM's sign-off is very similar to that from WOIO in Cleveland

KYNE 26 Omaha - Opening (6-16-2009)

that's a really weird flag before the end.

0:57 are that s-vhs´s right???i saw these annoying black line smears when you use regular vcr on that

A cheesy SSB film! I even never seen anything like this before!

The sign-off of KPTM in Omaha, NE is indeed to that from WOIO "We're Nineteen" in Shaker Heights-Cleveland, OH.

1:18 Pappas??Wheres the mommas???