{"id":8337,"date":"2015-06-26T12:13:29","date_gmt":"2015-06-26T17:13:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.wnpt.org\/mediaupdate\/?p=8337"},"modified":"2015-06-26T12:13:29","modified_gmt":"2015-06-26T17:13:29","slug":"1980s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.wnpt.org\/mediaupdate\/2015\/06\/26\/1980s\/","title":{"rendered":"NPT&#8217;s &#8216;Throwback Thursday&#8217; Sign-Off Videos Go Back to the 1980s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back in the day, TV stations signed on every morning and signed off every night, often accompanied by scenes of their respective regions or an American flag waving n the breeze. In the 1980s, when we were known as WDCN, we invited local high school choirs to sing patriotic songs which we recorded and aired at the beginning and end of each day.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.wnpt.org\/mediaupdate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Glencliff-Chamber-Choir.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-8338 size-medium aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.wnpt.org\/mediaupdate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Glencliff-Chamber-Choir-300x229.png\" alt=\"Glencliff Chamber Choir\" width=\"300\" height=\"229\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.wnpt.org\/mediaupdate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Glencliff-Chamber-Choir-300x229.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.wnpt.org\/mediaupdate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Glencliff-Chamber-Choir-1024x782.png 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.wnpt.org\/mediaupdate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Glencliff-Chamber-Choir-900x687.png 900w, https:\/\/blogs.wnpt.org\/mediaupdate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Glencliff-Chamber-Choir.png 1212w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We recently received a phone call from one of those choir members asking if we still had that footage. That sent us scurrying into our archives. Can you believe we found one of these reels?<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Dg6GYdrfIsM\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Follow us on Facebook and\/or Twitter to see the videos on &#8220;Throwback&#8221; Thursdays. Maybe you&#8217;ll recognize old friends or even spot yourself among the choristers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in the day, TV stations signed on every morning and signed off every night, often accompanied by scenes of their respective regions or an American flag waving&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[113],"tags":[2187,2186,2282,2283,1561],"class_list":["post-8337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nashville-public-television","tag-antioch-high-school","tag-glencliff-high-school","tag-nashville","tag-nashville-public-television","tag-wdcn"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>NPT&#039;s &#039;Throwback Thursday&#039; 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