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A test card, also known as a test pattern or start-up/closedown test, is a television test signal, typically broadcast at times when the transmitter is active but no program is being broadcast (often at sign-on and sign-off). [1] Used since the earliest TV broadcasts, test cards were originally physical cards at which a television camera was ...
Some broadcasters that have ceased signing on and signing off in favour of 24-hour broadcasting may perform a sign-off sequence at a certain time in the night (usually between 10:00 p.m. and 1:00 a.m.) as a formality to signify the end of its operating day (in the United States, the broadcast logging day ends at 12:00 midnight local time).
In the Dominican Republic, the Indian-head pattern was used by its public broadcaster Corporación Estatal de Radio y Televisión (CERTV) in the late-1960s and 1970s (in conjunction with the EIA 1956 resolution chart test card) after playing the National Anthem of the Dominican Republic at sign-off. Swedish botanist and radio and TV personality ...
Hanson, who remained with the station until November 2006 and later returned to WNBC as host of New York Live, [1] was replaced by Darlene Rodriguez in 2003. After Morrison's departure in June 2008, Michael Gargiulo became co-anchor of the program.
The 5 p.m. edition of WABC-TV (channel 7)'s Channel 7 Eyewitness News also had two female anchors; first with veterans Roz Abrams and Diana Williams, then with Sade Baderinwa when Abrams left for WCBS-TV in 2004; and in April 2006, WCBS switched to the two-female-anchor format at 5 p.m. with Roz Abrams and Mary Calvi, who anchored together ...
A test of the EBS from WNBC-TV in New York City, 1980-12-24; A test of the EBS from WHAS-TV Louisville, KY, c. 1994; An EBS Test from KGO-TV in San Francisco, c. 1990; An EBS Test from WPGC in Washington D.C., c. 1981 Windows Media Player is required to hear this file. A tornado warning from WNAS Cable-TV in New Albany, IN for Clark County, IN ...
Time named it one of the best programs of 1982, calling it "TV's wittiest, toughest, least snazzy news strip", [3] and, after the program left the air, one of the best programs of 1983. [4] The duPont Columbia Awards awards jury cited NBC News Overnight as "possibly the best written and most intelligent news program ever."
He also handled occasional sign-offs and live tags, for the network's New York flagship station WNBC-TV and its radio sister stations (WNBC (AM), which became WFAN and WNBC-FM/WNWS/WYNY, later WQHT). Damon's radio announcing credits include Monitor, the original version of X Minus One, and The Eternal Light.