Do any TV stations sign off with the National Anthem anymore?

[Archae]

I can think of one, it's channel 38 out of Green Bay, a PBS station.

Too many infomercials on after midnight.

[bluedigger]

1. I couldn't say.

I haven't seen a station go off-air (on purpose) for years.

[Systematic Chaos]

2. Informercials IS what most networks sign off to.

When they don't have the viewership to justify regular programs with ads at 4 in the morning, they just let some dork come on and sell you a new plastic convection oven.

[Major Nikon]

3. We have Raygun to thank for that

More accurately we have his handlers to thank for that. Raygun suffered from the brain rot for most of his presiduncy and had absolutely no clue what was going on within his own administration.

[Archae]

6. No.

Reagan is to blame for this, as much as Obama is to blame for gas prices.

In other words, not a damn bit.

These infomercials would dry up and blow away if no one bought whatever they are hawking, simple as that.

[Major Nikon]

7. ...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infomercials#History

[Archae]

8. And...?

This was the FCC, updating an obsolete rule.

No one forces us to watch infomercials.
Or buy their crap.

People do because they are dumb.
And people have always been dumb, when it comes to advertizing.

[Major Nikon]

9. The rule was no more obsolete in the 80's than it was decades before

The reason the rule came about in the first place was because networks were filling content with crap and deceptive advertising. The public complained and the rules were the result. The rule was changed as part of Raygun's 'big government is bad, big business is good' lie. Immediately after the rule was abolished, networks went back to filling content with crap and deceptive advertising, even worse in some respects than before.

[elleng]

4. Our 3 PBS stations don't sign off AT ALL,

just keep going. Don't know about any others.

[dimbear]

5. AFAIK, no station around here ever signs off. Part of that is the digital switchover,

stations are cheaper to run.

NorCal.

[HopeHoops]

10. Many of us remember that. Many of us do not. With 24-hour crap, I don't think it happens now.

[RebelOne]

11. I didn't know that TV stations signed off any more.

I think they all broadcast 24/7

[Art_from_Ark]

12. Do any TV stations sign off with High Flight any more?

[Art_from_Ark]

13. Here's another great sign-off from yesteryear

KTUL-TV's Indian

[Tom Ripley]

14. "You ask me why I love her..."

[Nokorola]

15. On the weekends

From 3am until 5am following an hour of infomercials, WATM ABC23 still signs off to a test pattern and then runs a colorbar with logo bug until signing back on at 5am. It plays also plays a slideshow with the national anthem at sign off and sign on.