WFLD Channel 32 - Station Sign-Off, Sign-On & Thought For Today - "Station Doze-Off" (1987)

Here's a station sign-off, sign-on and edition of Thought For Today on WFLD Channel 32. Includes:

Ending moments of 1959 movie "A Touch of Larceny" with James Mason and Vera Miles

Closing title sequence for Latenight 32 (which dated to the Metromedia era) and voiceover (by Jim Barton) advising WFLD will return to the air at 6am

Promo for Fox 32 News (which debuted in August 1987) at 7pm and 11pm weeknights - "It's a Sure Thing" (voiceover by Beau Weaver)

Second Fox-era 32 logo, lasting 3 minutes and 21 seconds (don't fall asleep now)

WFLD Station ID, with first Fox-era 32 logo (voiceover by Beau Weaver)

Nature shots from the Kaiser / Field "Sierra Club SSB" film (as seen on the sign-off for former - and late lamented - sister station WKBS Channel 48 in Philadelphia here), only with "America the Beautiful" as background music

Station sign-on, starting with second "Fox 32" logo ID animation and aerial shot of Chicago skyline in the daytime (voiceover by Jim Barton) - with reference to the 205 North Michigan Avenue address to which WFLD moved in 1987, and to Al DeVaney who was vice president and general manager of the station from February 1986 to January 1988 (he went from there to oversee WPWR Channel 50)

Thought For Today which starts with first Fox-era 32 logo - delivered (off-camera) by Rev. Princella Hudson Gilliam, Pastor of Mount Zion Baptist Church in Chicago, speaking of a visit by a missionary in China to an island and Jesus' time on earth (opening voiceover by Jim Barton)

This aired on local Chicago TV on Wednesday, August 12th 1987 at about 5:50am.

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