WOIO Ch 19 Cleveland Sign-on 

You're very nice to say so. I think I was sleep-deprived when I wrote that copy.

The old WOIO-TV studios is now a goodwill store

One of the rare times that a station uses the National Anthem for a Sign-On insted of a Sign-Off.

This is the best sign-on ever.

I recall them saying that Ch 19 was the first in the country to spell-out their number (nineteen) as part of their stations logo.

The good old days of regular tv and cable! We'll never get them back.

If you were a child in the 80s in northeast Ohio, this was part of your weekday cartoon intake. Dennis the Menace, Gilligan’s Island, Double Dare and on weekends it was reruns of The Fall Guy and movies.

@raymieX You're right! It IS Bill “the Troll” as the VO for this sign-on! (Tullis was the very same VO for CNN, Headline and WTBS throughout the 1980s.) That's fascinating because WOIO almost always used either Jeff Kinzbach or John Webster to do all station promos from day one until the flip to CBS. Tullis and Burns worked together at WTBS back in the early 80s, which explains that connection. (Edited after all these years lol)

@raymieX That's true. And yeah, I wrote the somewhat sarcastic copy for the sign-on. I miss doing sign-ons and sign-offs.

Yep. Except for the CBS logo in the color bars, this is what they used when they first came on the air in '85

nothing like the good old days of tv!

I am not sure if I had ever seen the sign on before this but I had seen the Sign off plenty of times.. I believe they used to sign off as early as mighnight Saturday nights.. when they actually shut their signal off varied.. sometimes they would leave their color bars up nearly all night!

Oh my god I can almost feel the nostalgia-induced flush of dopamine coursing through my brain hearing that terrible, beautiful synth music.

@myronfalwell @raymiex actually the voiceover is Bill TULLIS from WTBS, not Bill Tush, the TBS on-camera newscaster and comedian. The late Mr. Tullis (he died in 2010), aka 'Mr. Troll', did most of WTBS's voiceovers and picked/licensed/otherwise obtained music. I just drove through Shaker Square a couple of weeks ago in search of residual signs of the original home of WOIO...not much evidence.

Back in 1985 or 1986 on WOIO The Fall Guy was on weeknights at 8. Just before the opening credits the station would show that night's winning Ohio Lottery numbers. The background music was usually the intros of Pink Floyd's "Money" or Dire Straits' "Money for Nothing." Does anyone remember this (or have a clip)?

such a great sign-on...

This is a classic!

I miss the old Ch. 19..complete with all of it's classic TV shows. I didn't know what I Love Lucy and Dark Shadows and the Partridge Family were till 19 came about and began showing that stuff. And Don't even get me started on Ch. 61...I LURVED that channel...esp Sunday mornings with the Blondie movies...I watched Blondie EVERY Sunday....and Ch. 61's theme song was Sun Runner by Bob James....DAYUM that HSN!!!

As of June 24, 2009 no. WOAC moved to Channel 47 digital, changed its call letters to WRLM and is now an affiliate of Tri-State Christian Television.

This Sign On Is Recycled from 1985.

nicely done.. taking something routine and boring (such as a legal sign on) and having a little fun with it.. the graphic presentation reminds me a lot of the stuff Superstation WTBS did back in the 1980s.

I seem to remember that for a while, they signed off with Neil Diamond's "Coming to America".

Looks like they hedged their bets on the tone as well, using a combo of what sounded like 390 and 972 Hz.

KPTM used this also as their sign off in 1986.

Wow, this brings back some great memories! I remember when 19 came on the air, I especially remember running home from school so that I could watch My Favorite Martian which came on at 330pm weekdays...I used to watch it on an old 1960s color TV in the basement. I also remember when WOAC-TV67 in Canton came on the air back in the 80s. Is that channel even around anymore?

You should upload the old WOIO sign-off for good measure!

My favorite Cleveland Area/Northeast Ohio UHF TV Channels as a Kid and Early Teen (early 80s-early 90s)... 1.Independent (1985-1986) era and Fox (1986-1994) era WOIO 19 2.Independent (1968-1995) era WUAB 43 3.Preview (1981-1983) era and Independent (1983-1986) era WCLQ 61 4.Independent (1985-1997) era WBNX 55

They might read them.

0:14 So THAT is what they call an English-Australian duet to Colour bars?

What your about to see is something we call 19 WOIO

Is this the 1985 sign on?

"Good Morning what you seen here is Dr Heiter(Static) followed by Parking attendants in tone(Martin and me as art and opera. Hes the high tone Im the low one)

Conversing with some of my younger Marines, I brought up how the national anthem played before and after t.v stations signed on/off, with the American Flag, and moto military clips playing in the background way back in the day. They were like, "thats some weird shit man, sounds like some indoctrination communist shit to me" lmao!! Now that I think about……...

i wish i had a clean copy of the music

0:01 "ECHO BEACH FARAWAY IN TIME" Nice to hear both Laurence R Harvey's 1000hz and my own 400hz playing in tone Colour bars in tone? now more like Colour bars evolved. Me and him sound like a duet in tone

Also, this was after WOIO turned FOX over to WJW, not to mention FOX buying Channel 8.

I would if I had it.

Who’s the voice-of woio 19 sign on

woio cbs 19 owned by raycom media

Thanks for the mind fuck WOIO!

80zdude4, I wish I had a clip. But I remember that!

Actually FOX dumped Nineteen and bought 8.

Is WOIO Relative To 93.7 WQIO A.K.A. The Super Q?

No, sorry. Wish I did.

OKAY... WHY... would the station's announcer be telling us of we saw and heard before they returned to the Air was static color bars and tone? NO SHIT, SHERLOCK! We know that's what follows after the sign-off and before the sign-on. WE CAN SEE IT, WE CAN HEAR IT! WE DON'T NEED YOU TO DESCRIBE IT!

That music sounds familiar. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-BwTCkIQ3hNU.html

this is cbs

Wierd...

nothing like the good old days of tv!