TV signoff "Air Force" anthem films + WREX sign-on/sign-off 1995-1999

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Published 2015-11-24

This is not an aircheck; instead, this is a capture from WREX's promo archive reels. This was on reel #100, the first DVCPRO promo reel in the tape closet, obviously dubbed over from an earlier Beta reel.

Dates for the sign-on and sign-off are estimated: WREX switched to NBC in 1995, and a newer signoff was dated 1999 on its slate (stay tuned for that one)

I upscaled it to 960x720 so that YouTube could play it in 60-frame progressive (I'm pretty sure the 480 resolution is 30 max still).

I have no way of knowing when we started using the Air Force films, but we stopped around 2008 or 09 when we finally went all-infomercials on weekend overnights.

All Comments (21)

@Thunderbirds501 5 years ago

I think this is the highest quality version of the Aim High America SSB out there on YouTube.
@MichealOnYouTube 4 years ago

Earth: Exists Some Weird Thing: Ends World Earth: Ends EAS: Its Time For Our National Anthem USA: Plays Anthem
@frankeastman1994 5 years ago

These two songs were recorded for the Air Force in the early '80s by the "Vocal Majority" chorus from Dallas, now the 13-time International Champion Barbershop Chorus in the Barbershop Harmony Society. The Air Force added the video and they were used at Air Force bases worldwide in base theaters at the beginning of each showing of a movie. TV stations across the country picked them up to use as the "sign-off" at the end of the broadcasting day. Today, the chorus still sings "The National Anthem", only with a slightly different arrangement and interpretation. The arrangements were done by Jim Clancy, our longtime director (40 years!) and now the Executive Director. His son Greg now directs the chorus.
@emdicadrian 4 years ago

basically Every End of the World EAS Scenarios
@andrewlabat9963 5 years ago

I'm old enough to remember when TV stations signed off, and this was absolutely the best..!!
@idioticreborn 4 years ago

"We now conclude our final activation of the Emergency Alert System, with our national anthem."
@Undead_Shep 5 years ago

The first one....RISING HEAT
@cam-gaming-yt1616 3 years ago

This is the final activation of the emergency alert system
@theamazingDrBob 5 years ago

This is my favorite TV sign off. I love the national anthem!
@ScoopNemeth 8 years ago

visually crisp and clean version of the Air Force sign off.
@EmersonIlarde 4 years ago

EAS Scenario brought me here
@rtcp2020 1 year ago

EAS creators: It’s free real estate A fun fact about this SSB: It was used before screening in USAF movie theaters, just like in India.
@NickDoesArts 4 years ago

Reminds me of the custom eas warnings. This is amazing. If i ever ended my youtube career, i would play this video.
@visayanmissnanny2.076 3 years ago

Star-Spangled Banner (0:08) : O say can you see, by the dawn's early light, What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming, Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight, O'er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming? And the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in air, Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there; O say does that star-spangled banner yet wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave? (America! My home!) Lord, Guard and Guide the Men Who Fly (1:57) : Lord, guard and guide the men who fly, Through the great spaces of the sky; Be with them traversing the air In darkening storms or sunshine fair Aloft in solitudes of space, Uphold them with Thy saving grace. O God, protect the men who fly Thru lonely ways beneath the sky.
@jareddicarlo7816 8 years ago

I never knew there was another Aim High film. Then again, I was born after TV stations stopped signing off.
@jf1bears4ever18 3 years ago

God bless America, God please end this pandemic😭😭 🇺🇸
@russellpavlov1343 4 years ago

The Air Force hymn 1983 film was used by WTVD (Durham, North Carolina).
@feelunknown1770 2 years ago

0:09 - Used for WSBK-TV 38 in Boston in mid-1980s.
@lancairw867 4 years ago

Thanks for posting 👍🏼👍🏼🤗. I remember this sign off as a kid in the 80s. I finally went to visit Mt Roushmore this month and I had a flashback of the F 16 sign off on tv 📺👍🏼. Good memories!
@Belboz99 2 years ago

Wow, was aiming to show my son this and never expected to find the one actually aired in my hometown.