Why I get scared of Analog TV Shutdowns 

Jesus Christ, finally I found a person with the same problem.

They at least showed a "Goodbye" screen in Australia. At the moment, Romania still has analog TV up and running, but I can imagine ending it all of a sudden, with no fancy animation or stuff like that. Unlike you, I get more scared by the National Audiovisual Council's messages regarding censorship and, heck, they even forced a TV channel to cease their shows for 10 minutes, because they showed footage from a protest back in August of 2018.

You know what is even scarier??? Getting an EAS alarm on your digital TV EVEN WHEN IT IS SWITCHED OFF!!!

It was definitely worse in the 70s and 80s where it would end with the national anthem and patriotic images followed by a straight cut to the loud static or the screen with the color bars across it..

If you think those shutdowns are scary, than let me introduce to you to Local 58

Fun fact: did you know this Goodbye curtain was only used on the analog shutdown? Because ATN originally used the Good Night curtains.

Ever since i was young i’ve been so scared of channel interruptions, analog shutdowns and channel shutdowns, especially when they play the creepy music. Something about them has always been to eerie to me

To me, the WNBC analog TV shutdown is like making me not wanna get out of bed. It just ends with the word "Goodbye" on a black screen after all of the NBC logos were shown.

I distinctly remember the adrenaline filled frenzy to reach the tv so I could turn it off before I’d get blasted by static, it was only a second but god it felt like centuries of scrambling off of my couch and sprinting to the tv only to find out I had magically forgotten all of the buttons and would only turn up the volume to max instead of hitting the power button, true fear.

Oh my god, I thought I was the only one who got chills from these types of things, but there's so many people here with the same experience! It's such an oddly specific feeling for an oddly specific situation.

dude, i feel you. its like with every shutdown, its a eerie tone and message and when the screen goes black, it just gives me chills.

Everyone: Oh yeah they're scary

that's a phobia where you're scared of things ending or losing power

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Ok but i have a similar fear with full channel shutdowns, like when a channel discontinues, especially if the channel ends un-ceremoniously, like everything would be carrying on as normal and then suddenly a screen detailing the channel shutdown pops up. ESPECIALLY if the shutdown screen has the logo of the discontinued channel or the logo of the cable provider (such as the old canal+ channel discontinuation screen, which i dont even live in spain mind you, but i was watching a video of the CN spain shutdown and something about the logo loop with the weird ass music and then suddenly changing to a screen in a foreign language with an image of the canal+ logo showing that the channel was dead really creeped me out) in some cases front and center. Heck it doesnt even have to switch into nothingness to scare the crap out me, sometimes when the channel just switches over to a completely different channel, taking the spot the old channel sat in, terrifies me.

I just realized this might've been scary for us because we were experiencing nightmares at the time and seeing these meant that we had to go to bed and face our demons. Which of course was terrifying.

Nickelodeon was the scariest ever than all of analog channels because spongebob say GOODBYE KIDS

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The fox 13 one scared the shit out of me! In the middle of american idol, it went off.

The credit sequences and production company logos of some companies can be scary, too. When I was a kid I went to bed with the tv on. At one point I kept it tuned to Nick at Night. The Dragnet endings always scared me, with the mugshots and descriptions of criminals, then at the end their production companies logo was a hammer striking metal. That always freaked me out. When I was a bit older, I switched to Cartoon Network, which had Space Ghost Coast to Coast, which I loved...except it ended with contact information for the show, including the creepy dial-up internet noises...and then the Ghost Planet Industries logo, which had the same hammer thing from Dragnet's ending going on. Didn't help that I had a curtainless window anyone could potentionally be watching me through.