[Inyo-Mono]

I was 13 in 1963, and I recall that all the stations signed off the air around midnight with a film of a jet (”my wings touched the face of God”) or the American flag and then showed the Indian test pattern starting around 5:30 am as they warmed up their cameras before beginning broadcasts at 6 am.

[pfflier]

The poem is High Flight. This is the video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoL-KCFbIpA

[Buckeye McFrog]

I recall that all the stations signed off the air around midnight with a film of a jet (”my wings touched the face of God”)

KDKA-TV in Pittsburgh ran this just before they signed-off their analog service in 2009.