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DTV before 6/9/2009

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e-dawg

Three questions about DTV

Q: What was the first tv station in the country that sign on digital TV only without an analog counterpart.

Q: What was the first analog TV to sign off to digital only.

Q: What was the last tv station (full power) to broadcast analog on 6/9/2009. I know it's not in the state of Hawaii since they sign off analog signals few months early. Also, what was the last tv station to sign off analog with the nightlight (AKA PSA for DTV switch) in the United States.

Thanks
 
e-dawg said:
Q: What was the first tv station in the country that sign on digital TV only without an analog counterpart.
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WHDT Stuart.

e-dawg said:
Q: What was the first analog TV to sign off to digital only.
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WMCN Atlantic City/Philadelphia.

e-dawg said:
Q: What was the last tv station (full power) to broadcast analog on 6/9/2009.
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I don't know of any that signed off on 6/9.

e-dawg said:
Also, what was the last tv station to sign off analog with the nightlight (AKA PSA for DTV switch) in the United States.
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I don't know if anyone was even paying attention. I suspect it was someone on the west coast.

- Trip
 
Re: DTV before 6/12/2009

Woops, I meant 6/12/2009 not 6/9/2009. Also, what was the last night light station to sign off for good?
 
e-dawg said:
Woops, I meant 6/12/2009 not 6/9/2009. Also, what was the last night light station to sign off for good?
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WCBS 2 New York. Mike Diserio didn't leave until about 6am on July THIRTEENTH!

-crainbebo
 
e-dawg said:
Q: What was the first analog TV to sign off to digital only.
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WMCN Atlantic City/Philadelphia.

I don't know if anyone was even paying attention. I suspect it was someone on the west coast.

- Trip
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I thought that KVMD in Twentynine Palms, CA, (in San Bernardino County, putting it in the Los Angeles DMA) was the first station in the nation to go digital-only, having done so in 2003. It broadcast in analog on channel 31, with a very weak signal; and went digital on RF 23, with a much stronger signal, mapping to virtual channel 31. KVMD also operates a Los Angeles-based low-power repeater, KSMV-LD, also on RF 23, mapping to virtual channel 31, relaying KVMD to Los Angeles proper. (The KSMV call letters are left over from when the repeater was licensed to Simi Valley, CA [in Ventura County, also part of the L.A. DMA] and relayed Ventura-licensed KJLA [RF 49, virtual 57] to Los Angeles proper. KSMV-LP, as it was known in the analog days, originally broadcast on channel 44; but because of interference with KXLA, a full-power 44 at the time [now on RF 51, virtual 44], moved its transmissions to channel 33 [and its tower to Mt. Wilson]. Today, because RF 33 is the digital home of KTBN, KSMV-LP converted to digital as KSMV-LD and moved to RF 23.)
 
Mastaclocksetta said:
I thought that KVMD in Twentynine Palms, CA, (in San Bernardino County, putting it in the Los Angeles DMA) was the first station in the nation to go digital-only, having done so in 2003.
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WMCN went digital-only in 2002.

- Trip
 
e-dawg said:
Three questions about DTV

Q: What was the first tv station in the country that sign on digital TV only without an analog counterpart.

Q: What was the first analog TV to sign off to digital only.

Q: What was the last tv station (full power) to broadcast analog on 6/9/2009. I know it's not in the state of Hawaii since they sign off analog signals few months early. Also, what was the last tv station to sign off analog with the nightlight (AKA PSA for DTV switch) in the United States.

Thanks
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WMAK channel 7 in Knoxville Tn.
 
trapper12 said:
e-dawg said:
Three questions about DTV

Q: What was the first tv station in the country that sign on digital TV only without an analog counterpart.

Q: What was the first analog TV to sign off to digital only.

Q: What was the last tv station (full power) to broadcast analog on 6/9/2009. I know it's not in the state of Hawaii since they sign off analog signals few months early. Also, what was the last tv station to sign off analog with the nightlight (AKA PSA for DTV switch) in the United States.

Thanks
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WMAK channel 7 in Knoxville Tn.
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WMAK never had an analog permit & never operated in analog.

Their license-to-cover for their digital permit was filed in August 2004.

Trip is correct: WHDT was the first commercial digital-only station. Indeed, the station required special permission from the FCC to begin operations in digital without launching an analog signal first.
 
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