This was recorded on my VCR on June 12, 2009. Since I was on an outside antenna I picked up KTBS from Shreveport, LA on a rare skip before KYW came back on with switch-over information on a continuous loop.
Classy sign off with the original W3XE test pattern. I wish that more stations paid homage to their roots with their analog sign off. After all, some stations were exiting that frequency after 50 or 60 years.
@@phillip5260 What is now KYW-TV began as experimental television station W3XE in 1932. Nice touch to go all the way back on the final analog sign off.
I remember the KYW transition. I live outside of Philadelphia and it was a bit of a crazy time because everyone thought CBS3 REALLY did go off the air.
I remember when I lived in Gillett, Wisconsin (located north of Green Bay and west of Oconto) in 1996, and could get e-skip from WJFW-TV NBC 12 in Wausau, Wisconsin, despite that channel being on an adjacent frequency to Green Bay's own WLUK-TV Fox 11...
God bless you, sir! There were some people with the KYW-TV footage all recorded by camera to TV. Unfortunately, there were a lot of the footages of the same channel, but using a black and white television. I hope I can remake the KYW-TV analog simultaneous shutdown footage again next week. If you don't mind for me to include this video on the remake of the KYW-TV analog simultaneous shutdown.
ClassicGaminer 2017, Go ahead, I don't mind. I was kinda surprised no one else did it this way so when I didn't see any other directly OTA, I figured some folks would enjoy this version. I was going through old VCR tapes to discard and copying some to DVD. I then copied the DVD of this and the Channel 6 video to the computer to post here. Please let me know when you publish your compilation.
Wonder why they went off the air for a couple minutes then came back on with the "nightlight" loop? I think a couple stations in New York also did that. Interesting you got some 'skip' reception on the last day of analog, wonder if anyone's gotten digital skips since then? In CA at my parents' house on their roof antenna, I got skips on channels 2 and 4 from Colorado, Kansas, Mexico and Canada in the 80s- we had a full-power channel 3 locally and got some interference from other distant stations trying to come in but none could overpower it. Normally we got 2 and 4 from San Francisco but were far enough from there to get the more distant stations when they were coming in.
The Media Hoarder I think they ran the nightlight loop directly from the transmitter. That _was_ the case with WNBC-TV when they ran the loop from the ESB instead of from 30 Rock.
A few hours later KYW-TV CBS 3 in Philadelphia would decommission their analog signal, on that same day, KTBS-TV ABC 3 Shreveport, Louisiana would also be decommissioned...that day's digital would create a ripple effect as outdated analog technology would be replaced with digital, giving us clearer pictures and the addition of subchannels on every local station...everyone had to make sure their new flatscreen TVs were being used or converter boxes were hooked up to their existing CRT TVs to experience a new era in broadcasting. Some say they liked the old NTSC standard, while others praised the new ATSC standard for their stronger, clearer local signals, plus the fact that each TV station can multiplex their signal, offering everything from classic TV to music videos and 24/7 weather on their subchannels...
@@druliefw I would understand because WPVI still use channel 6 without a virtual channel. KYW didn't bother to reuse channel 3 but they know use channel 30.
That you're seeing there is 1930sW3XE Classic test pattern by philco television Jackie Johnson said those words you're watching KYWTV the switch to digital is happening now That Happened only 10 and a have years
Clearly a switching error. I assume that the test pattern ran on both KYW's analog and HD feeds, whereupon the HD feed went into _The Young and the Restless_ ...
It did. The analog signal shut off on RF3 and the programming was switched to the digital signal was on UHF. (actually it had been simulcasting before the switch)
@@raisfathroosdian5120 sorry I do not have the original VHS tapes anymore. Let alone a machine to play it on. The content was a couple of commercials and local news irrelevant to the digital cutover.
I honestly think that even though better than some others, I really think this is very dissapointing for one of (if not) the very first TV signal in the US. KDKA and WLWT did MUCH better and they had a very strong history as well.
Hello, Dave. I apologize for the late upload, I completely forgot about the remake of the analog simultaneous shutdown video of KYW-TV, I have included your video and here is the link, My sincere apologies. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-lGWgIh5ZOtk.html
