Sign On/Sign Off Verbiage

[Ric Werme]

John Francini reminisced:

> My favorite was WGBH-TV 2's sign-on/sign-off, which was actually
> fairly long, with a full explanation of what the WGBH Educational
> Foundation did, which channels it broadcast on, and some really cool
> harpsichord music.  I've been after that particular piece of music
> for years.
>
> Actually, just checked YouTube and found one version of it there:
>
> <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMaZnEnFAyM>
>
> Still would like the music, though...

Oh, that harpsichord music!  Yeah, whenever that came on I'd watch to the
end.  Before (or was it after?) the speckle fading video, they used a
a video feedback recording.  It was years before I had a chance to play
with a camera aimed at a monitor myself.

Channel 7 (WNAC, I guess) had a female vocal of The Star Spangled Banner
sung the way it should be sung (or perhaps a tad too much).  She managed
to exude love for the song and country.  Much better than the standard
military fare.

Random By The Way:

I found this list when Todd Gross got removed from the air, and returned
as a subscriber when WCRB was in the process of being sold.  I hung
around because there are some interesting folk here.  I was "in between"
jobs at the time and recently got a job offer and figured I'd better
take it.  I'll hang around a while longer, but will probably unsubscribe
in a while just to have one fewer distractions.  However, I'll be back
when the next interesting crisis/opportunity happens.

     -Ric Werme

Oh - Todd seems pretty content in Salt Lake City, see
http://community.abc4.com/blogs/todd_grosss_blog/default.aspx
He still does some forecasting work for Massachusetts from SLC.