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WNET is the PBS member station known as Thirteen, serving New York, New Jersey and Connecticut from its license city of Newark. Like other American stations in the era before 24 hour schedules, it ended the day with a spoken sign off identifying its owner, the Educational Broadcasting Corporation, and its non commercial status. This 2000 version survives online because viewers recorded late night broadcasts and later shared them as examples of lost television rituals. It is now reused for nostalgia edits and ironic good night clips.
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Formal WNET sign off from 2000 announcing the end of the Thirteen broadcast day, a nostalgic television clip used for retro endings and good night posts.
This is the formal sign off message played by WNET Thirteen as it closed its broadcast day around 2000. A calm announcer states that the station is owned by the Educational Broadcasting Corporation, assigned to Newark and serving the Tri State area, and reminds viewers it is a non profit non commercial service. The delivery is measured and institutional, with no music or effects behind the voice. Played today it feels oddly final and nostalgic, turning a routine end of schedule announcement into a quiet, slightly eerie period piece.
