TV Sign-Off Analog Shutdowns in Los Angeles 6-12-2009 

0:37 "Not disfunctional, but... yeah!" *literally starts disfunctioning inmediately*

0:39 R.I.P. KCET (Analog Signal) 1964-2009 2:00 R.I.P. KNBC (Analog Signal) 1949-2009 3:40 R.I.P. KABC (Analog Signal) 1949-2009 4:25 R.I.P. KCBS (Analog Signal) 1948-2009 4:59 R.I.P. KCAL (Analog Signal) 1948-2009 6:54 R.I.P. KTLA (Analog Signal) 1947-2009 8:43 R.I.P. KOCE (Analog Signal) 1972-2009 9:21 R.I.P. KTTV (Analog Signal) 1949-2009 9:55 R.I.P. KCOP (Analog Signal) 1948-2009

oddly 2009 was the last time I watched normal TV. Internet won me over.

Did I see correctly, that KTLA's analog signal actually came back on after a few minutes?

8:12 I think it's a little too late to tell people how to switch to DTV...

0:39 Headphone warning.

Man, I remember how much of a big deal the analog cutoff was, and how many people just didn't understand it at all. People bought converter boxes with new HDTV's, people with "SDTV" (Standard Definition TV's with a Digital Tuner in them, using a logo much like the HDTV logo) thought they had HD's (as that was confusing as well, ) and everyone complained about the "blocky shit" that happened when they had a bad digital signal. Ah, I don't miss the changeover. I do miss analog TV, for the sheer sake of ubiquity it had - working with old TV's for gaming and such would be more of a treat now if I could still watch some TV on the buggers (without needing a tuner box, of course)

To all Filipinos, if you're watching this... this is what will happened to the remaining Analog on-air broadcasters (PTV-4, TV5, GMA-7, RPN 9, ZOE TV 11, IBC-13, Net-25, GTV 27, UNTV 37, One Sports 41, and INC TV 48) in 2027... Other broadcasters (SBN 21, RJTV 29, BEAM 31, ZOE TV 33, and INC TV 49) is now on FULLY DIGITAL broadcast

All to avoid people receiving signals from the aliens in response to our old broadcasts. :p

Thanks so much for preserving these historic moments & sharing them with the world :-) (Some were more exciting than others; I particularly enjoyed the KTLA one.)

0:36 not dysfunctional? you sure??

I love watching these, I should send this to one of my college professors, he'd get a kick out of it

4:17 Don't forget about the DTV switch. At lease she warned us

Growning up in the 21 century is crazy!

4:59 they left us on a cliffhanger:(

And with the switch over to digital, many rural and semi-rural areas across the nation saw the amount of channels they received over the air cut in half or more. While analog signals degraded over a certain distance and were still watchable for the most part, digital signals don't "travel" nearly as far and completely cut off when someone's antenna is outside of the 'strong single' range and would experience the breaking up of the signal when they are a moderate distance from the station's broadcasting location. Thus reducing the amount of channels they used to be able to receive. None of those problems were even highlighted before the switch over.

It’s been 14 years daddy i really really miss you

7:22 "Analog picture just fluttering in the screen, so long..." That old guy sounded like he was gonna go home and kill himself. :( Poor guy. He was around for the start! And he has to see this! *huggles the old guy*

KMart and Radio Shack, two dinosaurs now extinct. Times have changed. :/

Thanks for the video. I was one of the engineers on Mt. Wilson for KOCE that flipped the switch. We also saw the KTLA change at the transmitter site.

Thank you for preserving these memories!

10 years from now, this will happen again. Except this time, it will be digital to streaming.

Some of these analog shutdowns are so abrupt it's like somebody's grandpa passing away before he even finished saying his final words

13 years later I still have my Digital Converter Box running in 2022

Really, Analog TV is gone. Just tell all the rural areas in this country as well as us in Las Vegas, NV that still have 2 analog TV stations on the air. The analog shutdown only affected Full Power Television stations and exempt were translators and "Franken FM stations" on channel 6 as they are still on the air. Oh, a "Franken, (Frankenstein) FM station" is a channel 6 Analog TV station that the audio can be picked up on an FM receiver and usually has spanish music and a loop of unrelated video.

@LuisBelmontShow I only had 4 VCR's and a DVR, and I didn't know their sign off time.

5:25 Reporters Get Sweeped Of Air

Weird. They did this in the middle of the day? Our local stations went off at midnight.

Oh man, this video made me nostalgic for the awful KCBS analog reception.

I had a panasonic tv/vcr combo and when we moved to a different home back in 07, my dad accidentally yanked the antenna so I was unable to receive channels. The strange thing was I believed this was an analog tv I had. My uncle actually figured out how to get the channels back and this was after analog was shut down. I was able to watch the original channel package I had.

4:21 is it just me or is that perfectly timed 😂😂😂

Wow, I had forgotten how awful KCBS Ch 2 looked in analog.

I don't know why I find it funny at 3:41. News anchor give you a grinning look before the moment you get shot lol

Ah, the people at KTLA celebrating like it's New Years Eve.

Copyrigĥt claims, supposedly, for the KTLA portion on the REM song.

On Friday June 12, 2009 it was a end of an era of Analog TV to switch to Digital TV 13 Years Later

Kcop (MyNetworkTV) is last Remaining analog TV in Los Angeles

got no idea why they played it's the end of the world as we know it at the end of the ktla program but i'm here for it

8:39 the tv held an onion

KABC7's switch was top notch timing

Thanks for the memories!

4:59 *HEY!!!* I was watching that!

6:43 i think it's only a switch to shut off the analog broadcast. that not influence to a digital broadcast.

I remember this. Just like I remember Y2K

KTLA was the classy one.

Biggest mistake ever made. Digital sucks major ass, hands down. I always liked how channel 13 mimicked KTTV 11. They may have well just signed off 10 years prior since it was a copy. TV is a joke anyhow and just garbage. Good video btw!

The Philippines will adopt Japan's ISDB-T digital television broadcasting system, though we're still using America's NTSC.

What happened to switch off their Analog Channels in Los Angeles? Let's see what happened in Friday, June 12, 2009. KCET Ch. 28 - 12:07 AM (4:07 PM - MNL Time) KNBC Ch. 4 - 11:30 AM (6/13/09 @ 3:30 AM - MNL Time) KABC Ch. 7 - 12:00 NN (6/13/09 @ 4:00 AM - MNL Time) KCBS Ch. 2 & KCAL Ch. 9 - 1:10 PM (6/13/09 @ 5:10 AM - MNL Time) KTLA Ch. 5 - 10:45 PM (6/13/09 @ 2:45 PM - MNL Time) KOCE Ch. 50 - 11:30 PM (6/13/09 @ 3:30 PM - MNL Time)

imagine just chilling on the couch watching some teley and a freaking nuke goes off

Every Channel: STATIC KNBC: DTV Commerical

man, having a secondary unit just to watch tv is a waste of money. besides, analog has the advantage of being watchable during rainy days.

Funny, I stopped watching TV around 2003 when my old Hitachi CRT 80's TV broke for the last time (I may be what was called a "cord-cutter") and got a screen for streaming from a PC or playing Xbox back in 2010 or 11. I then just learned that you had to scan for channels (and so far haven't had the time to watch TV since)

It’s funny how people are still commenting on this video to this day.

Since there's still people commenting here, I'm going to ask if anyone can help me find a seemingly very rare video, that went a little like this. I believe it was the Pittsburgh KDKA, KYW, or a similar analog station. Interestingly enough, after the shutoff, a 1 in a million occurrence happened, and the person recording began receiving signal from all the way in Los Angeles, or perhaps it was Seattle. The video was about 6 or so minutes long. It was really cool in my opinion, and I've spent a long time looking for it.

I honestly miss analog tv, However the switch only applied to full powered stations, There are still low powered stations in my area but I cannot get a signal, Signal boosters are optimal.

lol now in France we can broadcast our programs on the analog SECAM band

Maybe during the late 90's it would've gotten attention, but since I haven't seen a proper signoff or signon since the ancient days of satellite (C-Band dish), I'm not surprised no one's holding it against them. When I was little, I used to wait and watch for the signoffs/signins, though. I loved them! I think Scifi's old animations were my favorite (given we got a proper dish before either Scifi or Food existed. I remember mum waiting very patiently for Food Network)

6:55 I CAN FINALLY WATCH THE FULL CELEBRATION OF THE ANALOG TV SHUT DOWN!

DTV… now there’s a term I haven’t heard in years! Probably since 2009, actually. Lol

The Digital switch must have been awkward with any tornado warnings that day...

Goddamn this is such an obscure menor for me I was in elementary around that age

What we lost in June 2009 Anolog MICHAEL JACKSON

Even Movie theaters are going digital!

Great they cut off Dave Mathews on KCET - a classic....lol funny

There was absolutely no need make the switch! .... keeping both analog and digital and analog at the same time would have been better since with analog we lost the most reliable signal !

Digital TV forced us into pay television because the antenna dependent boob-tube has poor reception.

8:10 they were supposed to put that on analog

In Order: KCBS 2 KNBC 4 KTLA 5 KABC 7 KCAL 9 KTTV 11 KCOP 13 KCET 28 KOCE 50

*Welcome to the broadcast.*

The broadcast of the channel "KTLA" in analog format from which TV was recorded?

I love videos like these the history of television and broadcasting has always been an interest of mine.

All I know was Analog was so much better in some ways, at least if you had a weak signal you could still watch the channel, with digital, you have to have I think at least a 70% signal or you no watching it, plus it pop up a lot pixels on weaker signals that really mess up the show. For those people that live out in the fringe area's, they for the most part are just shit out of luck. I also do not like the .1, .2 say channel 4.1 and 4.2, why not just have channel 4 or channel 5, if they are going to have a off shoot then put the 4.1? But luckily I have sat and do not use regular ant's, have not for a long time. Lots of good TV's got thrown away, still have all 5 of mine, but what really sucks is the TV in my truck that was analog only, and who wants to try and find a digital box to mount inside the cab then have to scan in channels as you go down the highway all the time if on a road trip, with analog it just faded out and you could change channels and find the next channel in range. These new TV's might have a better picture, but there life span is not all that great for the most part, and lets face it, how many old tube TV's are still working from the 50's, 60's, and 70's? Those old TV's just would not die it seems. I can still remember being a kid in the 80's playing with the high voltage flybacks of old B&W Tv's, it is a wonder I am still alive...LOL

We'll it is, but during the Analog to Digital Conversion, it didn't matter. The TV Stations did not really sign off, as most of them were broadcasting in Digital and Analog before the Analog shut down. These days, many radio stations that must sign off at sunset just turn it off and don't run no IDs. It's a law that the Government does care about anymore.

Digital and analog: 3, 2, 1 (pushes the sucker) yeeeeee Analog: noshoooooooooooooooooooooooo (signs off) Digital: (continues the program with no problems)

2:12 KABC *epic music* LIVE FROM ABC 7

I have to say.. that advert with two older people messing about with DTV box and TV still on...is very silly thing to show, should always switch off before making any connections........ or get electric shocks.......

Stan, no, you were not. You were setting up your TV. Not switching on KTLA for the first time ever!

6:40 is when the analog go to digital

MY ASSESSMENTS OF THESE SHUTOFFS: KCET'S: Can't say that a lot of Dave Matthews fans would have been pleased with the analog signal cutting off right in the middle of his interview with Charlie Rose, although this eerily foreshadows what would happen to Charlie Rose's career at the start of the #MeToo movement. KNBC'S: Some very odd timing here, switching to the DTV transition loop right in the middle of . . . a mattress commercial? KABC'S: By far the most professionally handled shut-off here. Looking back at these shutoffs, this appears to be among the few of its kind that were actually done right, with proper timing so that it actually shut off right when it was supposed to. Most of the stations that shut down their signals on June 12 either jumped the gun on the front of switching off the signal or cut off in the middle, or just toward the end, of any show was scheduled to air before midnight of the next day. KCBS': Good to know that channel 2 counted "11 million survivors" of its analog days . . . I guess. KCAL'S: I wonder if any footage survives of the KCAL transmitter technician shutting down from Mount Wilson that the station, which was notorious for having a rocky history in its analog era, said was streamed on their website. As for what we look at in this video . . . those with knowledge of that history will see some kind of symbolism in the shutdown occurring right in the middle of that judge's line of dialogue. KTLA'S: Los Angeles' first-ever television station committed a fitfully eventful termination of its analog transmitter, even if it took the guy in the control room a few seconds after the switch was pulled up to actually press that off button. KOCE'S: Peculiar how a guy playing the violin would have the last images transmitted over the analog feed of what would soon replace KCET as PBS' primary Southern California station. KTTV'S: In retrospect, this particular shutoff happens to be a typical example of Rupert Murdoch's particular brand of insensitivity. Apparently, Fox 11 in LA thought that the last people who still watched that station on their analog feed were drug addicts who were in dire need of psychological help. KCOP'S: Dang, they couldn't let the healthcare ad finish before turning the transmitter off? That's weird.

Yes it seems they kept it off until the end of the news then went into nightlight mode. Ch.2&4 are also in nightlight.

It's pretty depressing when the switchoff happens during a commercial break.

So when Cloo shuts down its transmitter, it'll look like this.

That's why we still have box dial tvs...

8:36 at KOCE PBS 50, idk that song was coming from... Can you tell what song it is? (Giorgio serci guitar) Well also.... The analog tv shutoff but starts only the Letter "K"

"What happened?" Doesnt finish what hes saying before it shuts off 😂

Omg I totally forgot about it. I remember when This happend and I also remember how you were able to see every detail in the people face 😂😂😂 some not so flattering in HD 😂

Ktla is The CW affiliate in Los Angeles

On KTLA-TV, Why they put a demo for converter box? (in digital portion) A. To rescan other channels? B. For other TVs don't have a converter box? (example: for child's room without converter box) C. All of the above

I could but then the whole video would have no sound because RU-vid would mute it.

Unrelated, but I noticed ABC 7's music at the beginning was the Tails Channel music he plays in his videos sometimes! But anyways, cool video.

I was "born with analog, but lived with digital"

0:40 "But then again" *gets shot* that's what it sounded like.

I think they should bring it back because i have crt tvs and portable tvs and they dont work

It would have been great for one of the stations, KABC preferably, to sign off the analog age with "Mickey's Gala Premiere"....much like what happened to BBC-TV back in '39!

NOO!!! PLEASE DO NOT TURN OF ANALOG BROADCAST!! I WILL MISS YOU ANALOG BROADCAST R.I.P D':

I WAS 12 YEARS OLD AT THE TIME WHEN ANALOG TV ENDED on 06-12-2009

KTLA, the first analog TV station, said bye bye to Analog in the classiest way.

??? These were all recorded in the USA so....

yes albania will change it too some months later

9:46 Querétaro vivió el apagón analógico el 11-12-2015