Did clergy used to preside over sign-offs?
Available for five-days-a-week scheduling, “A Seed for the Garden of Your Heart” is ideal aired adjacent to newcasts, sports or entertainment programs, and is excellent for sign on and sign off features. This feature from Michael Guido was has been widely used in the southeast and is apparently still marketed for that purpose.
In Scotland, we used to have (70s/80s) Late Call, a 5min religious ‘thought for the day’ type of thing. It wasn’t always immediately before closedown, but always thereabouts. It was parodied by a Scottish comedian called Rikki Fulton, and now the parody is much better remembered than the original.