" This is the Seal of Good Practice, it identifies KFVS TV as a subscriber to the Television Code of the National Association of Broadcasters, it assures you of high standards for the television programs designed to entertain and inform You.
KFVS TV now brings to a close todays telecasting activities. KFVS Television in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, operates on Channel Twelve with an assigned frequency of two hundred four to two hundred ten megahertz with a maximum effective radiated power of three hundred sixteen thousand watts as authorized by the Federal Communications Commission in Washington, DC.
The KFVS Television Tower stands two thousand feet above average terrain. The programs of KFVS Television are transmitted from our studios at three ten Broadway in Cape Girardeau to the KFVS Television transmitter site, eight and one half miles North of the city - through the facilities of the STL microwave station WAE20 - operating in the band of frequencies six thousand eight hundred seventy five to six thousand nine hundred megahertz.
The programs of KFVS TV are broadcast free of charge for Our viewing public and may not be rebroadcast, recorded or otherwise reproduced without the express written consent of KFVS Television. We invite you to join us tomorrow morning for another full day in the finest in varied television service. Until then, on behalf of the Management and Staff of KFVS Television, good night "
</DIIf you were a school age child in Southeast Missouri in the '70's, Your butt had better been in bed by the time you started hearing Don McNeely speak the following words:
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This is pretty close, I probably could have quoted this verbatim, twenty years ago, but memory does start to fade a bit past the age of fourty. In all fairness to my memory, the station sold in 1980 and the sign off announcement changed (There was a phrase that mentioned owned and operated by KFVS Television, Inc. - I think).
I also remember that when I was very young, the phrase "above average terrain" messed with my imagination until I learned what the word "terrain" was and that it was not "To Rain". I was very small and I thought that the tower was so tall it was "above the rain". It all became very clear when I started studying to become a Broadcast Engineer and I was determined to learn what "Effective Radiated Power" was...
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