Big Country News 435 Posted February 20, 2013 Share Posted February 20, 2013 Early this morning I had gotten up to finish some work and turned on FNC just in time to catch the last 15 minutes of the O'Reilly rerun. When the show ended, the ticker and logo-cube went away then patriotic graphics featuring troops, national landmarks, stars and flags appeared accompanied by the Star Spangled Banner. I know back in the day, stations would end programming with the National Anthem, but I thought that practice stopped. Either way, this is the first time I have seen FNC do this. Opinions? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MidwestTV 1173 Posted February 20, 2013 Share Posted February 20, 2013 I hate to sound so political but...were they doing this to make a point, or were they simply bringing back an old tradition? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Country News 435 Posted February 20, 2013 Author Share Posted February 20, 2013 I hate to sound so political but...were they doing this to make a point, or were they simply bringing back an old tradition? Most likely a tradition thing. If it was political, they would put it at the middle of the day or during prime time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Samantha 2876 Posted February 21, 2013 Share Posted February 21, 2013 It's more unusual in the US than elsewhere. Random example: In Colombia all networks must broadcast the National Anthem at 6am and 6pm (this from a law that came into effect circa 1996). It was already played at closedown. Then again, Colombian television is was possibly the most convoluted TV system ever devised—it took me weeks to figure all of the moving parts and pieces out after reading primary source material in Spanish and being confused by YouTube videos. (The product is about 25 Wikipedia articles on the subject, so nobody else has to go through what I did.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CircleSeven 1944 Posted February 21, 2013 Share Posted February 21, 2013 I think the last time I'd seen any television station air the national anthem was WGN-TV in the early morning hours like around 5:30am (I think earlier than that, and then when they expand the morning news, those were retired). It would start with Doug Paul's voice announcing the callsign, Tribune Broadcasting, studio/transmitter location, whatever, whatever, like stations use to do when the sign-on/sign-off many years back. During that announcement, it would show a chopper close up shot of the John Hancock Center and behind that, a sunrise towards Lake Michigan. They had a completely different Then they play the national anthem with close up shot with the waving flag with a translucent fade images of close ups of the statue of the Iwo Jima. That was memories. Someone at Fox News Channel took a giant step to start playing the National Anthem on a regular basis, and on a cable network. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mre29 1340 Posted February 21, 2013 Share Posted February 21, 2013 KTRK in Houston was showing the national anthem in the early morning hours as of a few years ago, along with the legalese that's traditionally part of a station sign-on/sign-off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bammy9 26 Posted February 22, 2013 Share Posted February 22, 2013 I know that the KCOS, the PBS station in El Paso, still signs off and plays the SSB. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rusty Muck 4161 Posted March 12, 2013 Share Posted March 12, 2013 Unless something changed, WKBW in Buffalo still airs the National Anthem early on weekend mornings (IIRC, they sandwich it in-between infomercials). Plus the WDAY/WDAZ combo in North Dakota still "signs off" nightly and plays the anthem before and after. Those three are the only ones that immediately come to mind. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mre29 1340 Posted March 13, 2013 Share Posted March 13, 2013 Unless something changed, WKBW in Buffalo still airs the National Anthem early on weekend mornings (IIRC, they sandwich it in-between infomercials). Plus the WDAY/WDAZ combo in North Dakota still "signs off" nightly and plays the anthem before and after. I would think a number of stations out in that part of the country (the Dakotas, Montana, Wyoming, etc.) still sign off on the OTA side due to the extremely small number of people likely to be watching via antenna in the middle of the night. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CircleSeven 1944 Posted April 27, 2013 Share Posted April 27, 2013 Here's the WGN one I'd mention above. Video courtesy of capnvid47 of YT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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