Sign-on and sign-off routines in Flarland

In Flarland, television closedowns initially took place frequently during the daytime, and sometimes only for a few hours at a time. This was due initially to Government-imposed restrictions on daytime broadcasting hours, and later, budgetary constrictions. The eventual relaxation of these rules meant that afternoon closedowns ceased permanently on the IBC network in 1984. The FBC took a long time to abandon the practice, and did not commence a full daytime service until the autumn of 1986.
A full night-time closedown sequence on Flarlandian television might typically contain information about the following day's schedule, perhaps a weather forecast and/or a news update, possibly a Public Information Film and finally, a look at the station clock and the national anthem.
==Radio==
Radio stations in Flarland played the national anthem as a requisite for decades. The practice of the closedown started to fade as radio stations switched to 24-hour broadcasting in the 1980s.
Illegal radio stations in the 1980s often played the same track at closedown. Such tracks were considered "closedown tracks".
==FBC Television==
For the start-up, FBC played a clock, followed by the slide of the corporation's coat of arms (retired as a television symbol in 1955). Initially it was followed by a slide featuring Wembley, depending on the time of day, except 5pm. This was later replaced by transmitters being linked across Flarland.
5pm was the starting time of the Children's Television strand. During the transmitter phase (mentioned above) at the finishing of the start-up, played at 5pm sharp. After the start-ups were finished, the continuity announcers appeared to provide a rundown of the schedule. The main schedule was only read in the evening period.
When it started as the FBC Television Service, reports say that the closing piece consisted of the Salute to the Flag and then the national anthem. Eyewitness reports say that the sequence would be played at the end of the late news, as there were reports of FBC news presenters saying "Good night, look after yourself and stay true to the Flarlandian flag". However, in reality this was usually said by the announcer, who read a news summary and also gave details of the schedule. Sometimes the clock was played over the news.
Announcers stopped appearing in September 1992. By then, all closedowns were being done IBC style, going to the clock after the schedule announcement. FBC 1 stopped playing the national anthem at closedown in 1999. FBC 2 and FBC 3 stopped in 2000.
In Berkshire, some nights would have regional continuity from 6pm to closedown. After the FBC Late News or Sportsnight (rarely after movies), the regional news and weather would be read, followed by the schedule. Such continuities stopped around 1993.
==IBC==
Every IBC company played the national anthem at closedown.
During the first few months, IBC called the closedown routine "And So To Bed", during the reading of the schedule.
==University of Wembley Broadcasting==
Channel Thirteen's closedown would often start with a news summary (no longer than five minutes in length), followed by the weather, a few public information films (in the late 80s and early 90s, commercials for Lifeline would be seen too), the schedule, the clock, and for a number of years, the Little Milo animation preceding the national anthem. A "don't forget to switch off your television set and remove the plug from the wall socket" message was sometimes heard, often before the signal switched off.
==Channel Ten==
==Other channels==
==Usage of off-air hours==
==Obsolescence==