JH Sign-Offs

Signing-off
The JH usually signs off in between midnight to rarely 3am. Most commonly, signing off at around 1am.

What happens?
The sign-off for The JH usually begins after:


 * The final show finishes (most commonly "JH Close" or "Luke Stik's Late Show").
 * Promos (most commonly ones for JH shows or the classic "EVERY MINUTE" promo)
 * Ad break - those are very rare on The JH, they mostly air another small program afterwards or simply a PIF/PSA.
 * Clock (depending on the program schedule or time). The JH barely airs weather; they very rarely do. News gets occasionally aired before closedown. Each time at night, announcers mention their good night wishes, other viewable entertainment like channels for JH Yay or JH Circle, or JH Radio to listen to. This, again, depends on the time, again or the announcer him or herself
 * National anthem - most commonly 'God Save The Queen' (a cover by Lillian Alexia, usually or one from a BBC close down) OR...
 * Any ident. They usually play out in full length or just cut short, mostly depending on the time. Mostly accompanied by, again, the British national anthem (very rare - with a bunch of idents playing or the stand-alone one).
 * A reminder to switch off the TV set or box. Yeah, JacobH came up with that but it may be for safety reasons or to remind others to turn off the TV or box before resting.

This section is various, depending on what day or occasion it is:


 * 1) Telelogue pages come on for around 5 - 45 minutes, again, depending on the time.
 * 2) Commonly the educational block 'JH Schools', weekdays at 2am - 6am.
 * 3) Rarely, transmitters get shut down for the night hours, leaving nothing until sign-on.
 * 4) Test tone is common depending on the night, usually with a test card. As transmitters go for some rest, the tone plays until the channel is off the air shortly afterwards. This is common when Telelogue isn't shown nor JH Schools so, expect that occasionally or on the weekends.
 * 5) JH testcards are available throughout a specific hour, mostly before JH Schools or a bit of Telelogue. Either a test tone or music plays through the entire duration. If not, for both, the following could happen: testcard for a few minutes before transmitters shut down, test tone on black screen, as above, Telelogue pages before channel is off air (very rare), etc.

There are over 30 or 40 examples of each of these options on JacobH's YouTube channel, mostly on The JH. We hope this page has helped you on what happens. There ARE occasions in which closedowns or programming get ruined, but we'll get to those later.

US Sign-Offs
For "The JH US", the last program ends. This follows:


 * A "Thank You" message for the viewers watching.
 * Promos
 * A commercial break (usually rare on the channel)
 * A clock or in-vision clip wishing the viewers a good night and good morning.
 * The US National Anthem plays usually, but on rare/special occasions, Auld Lang Syne plays.
 * Test tone plays, accompanied by either a black screen or test card. Transmitters would usually shut down for the time-being.
 * No signal or on weekdays, a night-time programming block follows until 4am, before TJHE US is off the air

There are, so far, no videos based around this. Expect some later.

The JH
This channel usually goes off the air in between midnight to even 2am or 3am. Usually, they rarely air JH Weather (most likely on a weekend).

Throughout The JH's recent years, TJHE has a simple digital clock design against any of these backgrounds:

Blue (original), yellow, green, red, purple, orange and more. Recently in November 2020, The JH began using idents to close down rather than the UK national anthem (which is used very rarely since December 2020), with the most common being "Water Sink" and "Oasis".

Occasionally, there were some times the sign off went abrupt or so crazy, it ends early (most commonly using the purple, most used version of the Fan ident as well as the Granada closedown music). For example, at 11:47pm on 24th May, 2020, Jacob went so crazy after drinking ice cold milk that the channel signed off early instead of a showing of Are You Afraid of The Dark?. (wait OOOOOOYEEEEEEEEEEEE)

Extremely rare occasions for a sign off is when the clock is displayed against an ident, usually followed by a cut to black with the transmitters closing, or the National Anthem. One example is when Jacob lost it with Sgt Dummy causing technical faults on 4th / 5th May, 2020 in which the channel signed off directly after midnight, with the Blinds ident playing.

Another notable example was on 23rd January, 2021, when Animaniacs was to begin airing, but after a heartbreaking news report (not to be mentioned here), The JH abruptly closed its transmissions across all of it's channels to pay respect, until 3pm when it began airing New Marble Show.