Tape issues throughout video. CBNT (CBC - St. John's, Newfoundland) Station Sign-Off (O Canada / Ode to Newfoundland) Date: 1991 (date unknown) Video Source: Betamax - (recorded off-air)
What's going on is that Conan O'Brien has most recently insulted Canada as well as other countries in the world. He has joined the Simpsons animation crew members. In doing so. Craig Ferguson has only insulted one country, and that's Germany. 🇨🇦
Just discovered that Random Island is in fact a place in Newfoundland and Labrador... I initially thought it was just the cartographer forgetting it's name or something...
So many transmitters! Great nostalgia seeing this, really cool time back in the day when people tuned into OTA from all over the province. Much different time, now. Sad when they shut them all down but times change. Lot of $$ and maintenance required to keep it all going. Some of the CBC tower sites still exist with space leased to tenants, FM broadcasts, etc. Some are gone.
As a kid growing up in Newfoundland in the 80's and 90's I would occasionally fall asleep with the TV on and if I was watching CBC I would sometimes wake up to see the national and provincial anthems. That is my favorite version of Ode to Newfoundland.
***** Thank for clarifying, I suppose I still feel pretty mad they had to go and shut them off without leaving a few on until they could try to get new digital signals up. Certainly left a lot in the dark without cable.
Either they didn't have it set up for the repeaters to shut off or we're watching a direct feed from the St. John's station. Nice music over color bars though.
holly pietrzak Only those repeaters set up to do so. Normally stations would cut the subcarrier at the transmitter site automatically if it's set up for it. CBC once used DTMF tones to do it I believe. Most cable/satellite outlets don't release their channels this way, though usually through a direct feed, either from microwave or satellite from those channels.
