4:56 If you can pause correctly it seems the transmitter or the master controll was breaking down for a split second changing the colors for a frame. This shows how analog transmitters are way too old to brodcast nowadays
Since this waa during PBS Kids, I bet kids who were watching it on analog were so confused. Some of them probably asked their parents what does it all mean. Others probably started crying when the static turned on
Since I live in berkley, I can exactly name each of these channels!(I won’t go into the logistics of why I have those channels) wow, WTVS has had that logo for a long time… why is there a Canada flag?
WTVS included Canada in their broadcast area, which includes Windsor and other Canadian cable providers that carried this PBS station. So that's why there was a Canadian flag to reflect that.
The only reason people in America think that Digital TV sucks is because the FCC was lobbied to choose an inferior standard which only the lobbying company knew how to receive well
"The nation's conversion to digital tv will be complete by 12:01 tomorrow morning." Oh...only if they realized how wrong they were...so wrong in fact, that not only did the US still had analog broadcasting for TWELVE YEARS paste the mandate, but the FCC only recently mandated for remaining analog stations operating on low-power frequencies or translators to cease broadcasts on July 13, 2021. Alaska will be the final hold out in the final steps into fully digital television, who will be ceasing low-power broadcasts on January 10, 2022.
I fucken hate Digital TV because it makes me mad all the time I get a converter box and I will not work because I hate converter box I really need to distory it now
At about 3:35, you can see a pattern of fine horizontal lines come into the picture and start hearing a high-pitch whistle in the sound. Another Channel 2 station started interfering with WJBK. This was quite the site that day. The analog shutdown was originally set for February (some stations actually did shut the analog signal off then). When some of the departing analog stations aired the "Nightlight" broadcasts, I was able to catch many other stations on channels 2 through 6, I received a LOT often those stations, because the June transition happened to be in the time of year when a naturally-occurring phenomenon called Sporadic-E skip reflects VHF signals back to earth. Some stations were from distances that were uncommonly short, or uncommonly long, for Sporadic-E. WJBK only had their nightlight service at full power for a few days, after which they operated at far less transmitter power. Oddly, this had the effect of changing WJBK's carrier frequency from plus offset (55.26 MHz) to zero offset (55.25 MHz).
2:17 After WXYZ turned off analog channel 7, WJBK turned off analog channel 2 and digital channel 58 to move to digital channel 7, because channels 52-69 were removed at that time. And after the repack, channels 38-51 suffered the same fate.
The ending gave me a heart attack. I was not ready for the channel to disappear like that XD. Otherwise rip analog tv. I was only 6 years old when they did this and I barely remember much from it.
This is the classiest final analog sign-off of any U.S. station whose clips are available on RU-vid. Most just did it during their newscast or without any fanfare at all. It is notable that they bothered to produce this in spite of the hardships they were facing keeping their old analog transmitter on the air.
@@KobeMouse2007 I somehow doubt that. It looks close to Felix the Cat, but with some minor facial features changed. I'm thinking that it is some sort of rejected version of him, maybe?
WTVS decided to pick April 16, 2009 as the shutdown date because its existing analog transmitter had failed seven times between January 1 and April 16 alone.
@@TimothyOnline yeah, I think I've read that many transmitter tower maintainer personal started doing the bare minimum repairs on their transmitter towers knowing that the transition was on it's way.
Any reason why the Canadian national anthem is being played, despite Detroit being in the US? Is it because Detroit shares the border with Windsor??? So curious!
Yes, Canadian TV viewers watch American stations *A LOT!* Canadian TV networks use low power transmitters, and they also push expensive cable packages to Canadian consumers. WTVS (Detroit PBS), in particular, is relayed to almost all of Ontario.
WJBK (2) wasn't really honest about those "switches", as the program continued in analog for several seconds after the switches were thrown - after which analog 2 continued to transmit the "nightlight" instructional video. As for the switches, I don't know what they were actually doing. The "switches" may have been just for show - or they could have been cutting power from the RF channel 58 transmitter and powering up the RF channel 7 transmitter. Note at about 3:30 the signal is getting co-channel interference. It just so happened that there was also a legendary session of Sporadic-E openings that day, as June is the month when Sporadic-E is most frequent.
I think it was just part of their local schedule. Most public TV station’s air children’s shows during the day and they normally don’t cut shows right in the middle in cases like this.
