AFVN Sign-Off / Sign-On Music

February and May 2019



​    From:  Ann Kellsey

     Date:  May 4, 2019

Subject:  AFVN Sign-Off Music

Was AFVN TV on-air 24/7 like radio? I think I remember hearing and seeing the sign-off on the tv earlier in the evening.
Ann
 

​    From:  Ron Banks

     Date:  May 4, 2019

Subject:  AFVN Sign-Off Music

70 -71 AFVN TV Saigon signed off around midnight.

 

​    From:  Larry Green

     Date:  May 3, 2019

Subject:  AFVN Sign-Off and -On --- Hear It Again

I would have been there when that was recorded.  And while a few years have passed, I think that is the voice of Scott Manning who was PD on AM while the FM went from a paper diagram to a huge contraption that sat along the lobby wall between AM and FM studios.

Larry Green    68-70

​    From:  Robert Morecook

     Date:  May 3, 2019

Subject:  AFVN Sign-Off Music

Hi, 

In 72-73 AFVN radio Saigon was on the air 24/7 BUT there was a sign off procedure that included the two national anthems. They are posted to youtube from off the air A link is below. 

Bob M

AFVN Radio Sign-On with South Vietnam National Anthem and United States National Anthem

    From:  Bob Morecook

     Date:  February 18, 2019

Subject:  AFVN Sign-Off and -On --- Hear It Again, Click Below

​    From:  Garr Brill

     Date:  February 19, 2019

Subject:  AFVN Sign-Off and -On --- Hear It Again

I went thru some of my tapes (yes still have a reel-reel) and could not find a sign-off.  I did find an FM sign-on when we separated the AM/FM after the 6 o'clock news (see attached)
Can someone identify the voice on the FM Sign-on
GarryB

AFVN Group Conversations


​    From:  L.F. Rogers
    Date:  February 18, 2019

Subject:  AFVN Sign-Off and -On --- Hear It Again

Frank R



​    From:  Ann Kelsey
    Date:  February 18, 2019

Subject:  AFVN Sign-Off and -On --- Hear It Again

Didn’t they play the two national anthems, U.S. and South Vietnamese, at sign off?  Maybe that was TV, not radio?

​    From:  Mike Sullivan

     Date:  February 20, 2019

Subject:  AFVN Sign-Off and -On --- Hear It Again

Thinking further, I seem to remember the theme from "The Cardinal" was associated with a short show by a Chaplain just before TV signed off

​    From:  Roy Burnette

     Date:  May 4, 2019

Subject:  AFVN Sign-Off Music

In DaNang 70-71 there normally was a movie starting after the news at 11:30. P.M.  When the movie (might have been a Gunsmoke or something like that) ended the station would sign off.  About 12:30 A.M.  From time to time someone would bring Midrats [midnight rations?] from the Navy base at the bottom of the mountain. 

 

​    From:  Larry F. Green

     Date:  May 3, 2019

Subject:  AFVN Sign-Off Music

Our sign-off music at Danang was both US and Vietnam national anthems. 

Frank