Analog shutoff that has come and gone

[tvid]

Here in Syracuse New York we have already seen the shut off of analog. WSTM and WSYR went off between 12 and 12:30am with little to no fan fare. WSTM put up a slide with there Id and went into the National Anthem. WSYR TV just went dark. WCNY signed off with a little history saying that they had been on channel 24 from 1965 and they thanked all of central New York for supporting them over the years and the years to come. WNYS and WSYT both went off on 2/17. WTVH signed off at 9am but I missed it. WSTM will sign on its dt channel 24 Sunday........

 

[jal41]

Atlanta - WSB-TV, WAGA, and WXIA brought in people of historic note to push the buttons. WSB-TV had a reporter of 50 years (and still active at the station part-time) and a retired anchor press the button. WAGA and WXIA had the engineers that signed on the stations (in 1949 and 1951 respectively) push their buttons (the WAGA engineer is 100 years old!). No signoff statements, legal IDs or SSB...just pictures of buttons being pushed were the last analog images. WGCL went to nightlight with no legal ID or any other mention.

Don't expect anything fancy elsewhere...the broadcasters just want to get it over with.

 

[thathoustonradiogeek]

Same here in Houston. One second we had A/V, the next just snow and white noise.

 

[johnnya2k6]

Don't expect anything fancy elsewhere...the broadcasters just want to get it over with.

Not even at WNBC?

Maybe Chuck and Sue will do something similar to WNBC Radio when they signed off for good in 1988 before transferring their 660 frequency (and Don Imus) to WFAN.

Here, who knows what KTVF has up their sleeves for their analog goodbye.

 

[Mario500]

In the Mobile-Pensacola TV market, after a commercial break between "Rachael Ray" and "The View", WEAR-TV's last image on the analog signal was a regular station identification with an advertisement before going away at 10:00 AM.

 

[willcail]

On Wednesday June 10TH WCMH ceased regular schedule programming on VHF4. It is now broadcasting DTV info until 11:59PM tonight. WBNS analog signal on VHF 10 is now displaying a message that they are preparing to shutdown their analog tower. The audio is still broadcasting. WSYX is waiting until 11:59pm. No word on the two possible low power analog shutoff stations WCLL CA and WCPX LP that might happen tonight.

 

[TheRob]

We played the national anthem and put up one of the old test patterns. It was a little sad to watch the signal slowly fade to snow.

 

[willcail]

Was it one of the old test pattern with the (Native)American Indian in profile? Update WSYX will go into night light mode until June 26. I do like it that my TV's have NTSC/ATSC/QAM Tuners so I can monitor the anlog shutoff.

 

[Neel]

KNBC 4 just did their switch at the conclusion of the morning news at 1126. They just had an engineer click on something and say that their analog signal is off. Then they said there was going to be a message on their old analog signal telling people how to switch to dtv and the news anchor said "That's a good idea. I didn't hear about that before."

 

[TheRob]

Yes, it was the Indian head. This is the pkg from the noon show, which shows how the shutoff occurred.

http://www.fox4kc.com/wdaf-dtvg-day-pkg-061209,0,3863840.story

 

[TheDingo]

I have the shutoffs of WHNT 19, WAFF 48, and WZDX 54 from Huntsville AL on the DVR on my Macbook, only WHNT even made mention of it, since their shutoff (at 12:30 pm central) followed a newscast. I'll get around to converting the video later tonight and putting it up on youtube, where I already have the shutoff of WAAY 31 Huntsville, and WDEF 12 Chattanooga (via DX and in terrible quality though) from Feb. I tried to get Nashville's WSMV 4 but the signal of all nights wouldn't cooperate last night and pick up good enough to tell what it was after being very easy to pick up here forever.

 

[Rollo-Smokes]

I've logged the New York City transition in this post.

http://boards.radio-info.com/smf/index.php?topic=139667.msg1228427#msg1228427

 

[Mario500]

WKRG-TV signed off from analog broadcasting in a special way. WALA-TV continued to air a still image of digital TV information until the very end of analog broadcasting for the station. I was unable to see WPMI-TV in the final seconds of analog broadcasting, but the signal had network programming within the last three minutes.

As I typed this post, I found the video WKRG-TV used for tonight’s sign-off hours after it was posted online. The second link leads to video of a report WKRG-TV aired tonight during the 6:00 PM newscast and the 10:00 PM newscast. The report featured pictures from WKRG-TV’s past, including video of a newscast when the station was known for “NewsCenter 5” and a station identification.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqlpPVfG58Q (Sign-Off Video)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hg0KaD7Ay4c&feature=channel_page (Digital TV Report)

 

[easttxtv]

Don't expect anything fancy elsewhere...the broadcasters just want to get it over with.

Not even at WNBC?

Maybe Chuck and Sue will do something similar to WNBC Radio when they signed off for good in 1988 before transferring their 660 frequency (and Don Imus) to WFAN.

Or, Sue could walk on where the transmitter is and just as Chuck is about to push the button, Sue could belt out that infamous "what the **** are you doing??" ;-)