last two minutes of WDEF-TV in analog

[TheDingo]

Picture quality is horrible, since i'm 80 miles away from signal mountain, but i captured the last two minutes of WDEF in analog last night
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwgIHHkxFb8

I like how it cuts back to Letterman just long enough for the last words on WDEF analog to be "I know where you live beeooootch"

 

[kd8hho]

i lol'ed.

just think in 25 years, you can tell kids that tv was once analog, and they will think its just another "old man" story like walking up hill to school both ways

 

[thatWguy]

Yeah, and in 25 years you can also tell them that there was once a thing called radio....... :'(

 

[landtuna]

In 25 years both me and analog will be ancient history. The kids won't care.

 

[SporaticE]

Here is a better quality recording of the full signoff:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=je0YRBKQRmY&eurl=http://www.facebook.com/home.php?

Kudos to WDEF for putting together a retrospective piece prior to the signoff. Also, kudos to the station's management for having the fortitude to pull the plug on the money sucking analog transmitter early.