2009 DTV Transition: Analog TV Shutoffs in Los Angeles As They Happened

[GoRabbids]

fuck , i am screwed it is the end of the world

[coffeeandsugar20]

Lol, I thought they were joking at first at 3:52

[jason24568]

4:52 Hazma pretinin, derakuta! "Better to be safe, than sorry!" Better to be DTV, than sorry! LOL

[jason24568]

KTLA's big switch is really special!

[davenwin1973]

That's a good compilation for what you were able to get. In Chicago, some stations signed off with a warning (mainly WLS-TV, WBBM-TV, WGBO, & WXFT) that they were signing off, & the 4 mentioned required people to rescan to get them. WYCC in Chicago signed off on April 16th while the rest signed off on June 12th. I was at work during the signoff of most, as many signed off at noon June 12th. WBBM-TV had to wait for WTTW to sign off on 11 in order to sign on from 2/DT3 to DT12.

[gangtwanger]

Thanks for putting these together. Unfortunately, I was unable to watch. Nice upload.

[gangtwanger]

I love the spanish infomercial at the end (with the older spanish woman frantically-clicking away at her remote control).

Aye!!!!! Ésto es muy importante!!!!!!

[SDFD101]

LOL 2:58 hahahahah I grew up with Jamie Chambers! lol So great!

[chuckrowe1070]

Nice post. There was a lot less fanfare here in the boonies.

[mashardy]

Awsome! as a ham radio operator, I'm glad to see that there are other people who care about these kind of things...

Thanks Mr. Oh.

73

[jaybee1973jaybee]

Mr. Oh, thanks for compiling this video documenting the end of analog television on several southern California television stations. The end of KCAL-TV (formerly KHJ-TV) was very unceremonious. KHJ was an experimental T.V. station in the early 1940s. As you know, Los Angeles has more VHF commercial stations than anywhere else in the U.S. If the FCC were to re-allocate channels today, I assume that Orange County and Riverside/San Bernardino would have their own stations.

[onetruepatriot]

You are very welcome. KTLA has always been considered the first television station in Los Angeles and west of the Mississippi River but I guess it is the first commercially-licensed station west of the River since experimental stations have existed since the 1930s, including KHJ, KNXT (now KCBS), and KTLA under different call signs.

[richartrod]

Yes, KTLA is indeed the first commercially-licensed station west of the Mississippi; it too was an experimental station, W6XYZ, from 1939 to 1947 when it received the commercial license. KCBS is probably the oldest-oldest station in L.A., having begun as W6XAO in 1931. Paramount Studios, which founded W6XYZ-KTLA, probably picked its experimental call sign in true Hollywood manner for marketing reasons. :)

[johnissoevil]

From the analog sign offs I've seen on YouTube so far, it appears Rupert Murdoch wanted his stations to transition very quietly. WNYW and WWOR in New York just went to static so suddenly.

[nepanews]

Thanks for sharing this. I used to live in the LA market and it was nice to see how various stations handled the analog signoff.

[richartrod]

Good job with the eight channels you were able to record. KTLA's on-air party with Stan Chambers and "The Big Switch" is far and away the best one, with KLCS' logo history to REM's "The End of the World As We Know It" (how true) a close second.

Rich Rodriguez

West Covina, CA

[dinfg6]

@richartrod Stan is the Best

[Robshow35]

interesting use of REM on KLCS' part

[beerrox711]

cool i only got KTLA,KMEX, and KAZA (switched 12:04 so it was the last one)

[KOFILMSANDMEDIA]

damn i wanted to see what arthur was provided by lol.

[onetruepatriot]

That's one of the consequences of being unprepared. Hopefully, you made the switch.

[kearthfan101]

awesome video

[KeLopezCL]

Add this tag: yt:stretch=16:9

[onetruepatriot]

Thanks for the tag. I had no idea I could fix that problem until you gave me that code.

[Y2p731]

KMEX was the only station that made a segment of their enitre analog history before shutting down.

[ElsewhereIsHere]

Very cool