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When TV Stations Signed-Off
When TV Stations Signed-Off
When TV Stations Signed-Off
Depending on your age, you may or may not remember that TV stations used to sign off the air overnight. The transmitter would be shut down and the picture would go to static. Here's a look at what it was like in 1982 when WTMW Channel 8 signed off the air for the night.