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Old 07-26-2012, 11:53 AM
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Cleveland's WKYC-TV (NBC affiliate) had a color-wedge test pattern in the '60s-'70s that showed its city of license in the same place the NC station's did. The Cleveland station's pattern also showed, briefly (for only a short time, IIRC), the old NBC "snake" logo in one corner, with the city of license appearing elsewhere on the pattern; I forget where.

Local TV stations and networks still use a color bar test chart, with the ID or the words "please stand by" in the center of it, when there are technical problems (in fact, a channel that no longer transmits an analog signal on the cable system here shows only a color test chart on that channel, with no ID or anything else), but the circular and box-shaped test patterns (the latter appearing on at least two UHF TV stations in Cleveland and likely in other cities, when US and Canadian TV stations still signed off for the night and on again the next morning) have gone the way of analog NTSC TV and reel-to-reel video tape recorders.
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