WFSB 3 Hartford,Ct DTV Transition 6/12/2009

[d4MLiVE1]

it starts at 3:06 the stuff before was a repeat

[bigvoice313]

Isn't WTIC is on channel 61?

[RolloSmokes]

Channel 3 had the callsign first.

[TheKid965]

WTIC-TV (Ch. 3) became WFSB in... I want to say 1972. Channel 61 signed on the air in 1984.

Despite the calls, Ch. 61 was never aligned with Travelers Insurance, while Ch. 3 was. (In fact, 61 had originally applied for the call sign "WETG-TV, in honor of the late Gov. Ella T. Grasso, but those letters were taken by a station in Erie, PA.)

[josegilpr]

I hope KPRC here in Houston does the same after they finish their analog nightlight service. I wonder if they still keep their ID cards when they were KLEE-TV?

[KML0224]

Why does WFSB say "becoming digital" when WFSB-DT has been on for a few years already? Scot Haney as the last person shown on the station from 2009? Gimme a break! :(

[GuitarPlayer42]

Nice, finally a station went old school!

[mathiasvolta]

They made it great saying "Good Bye" on their analogue signal !

Thanks a lot for recording that historic moment and thank you for upload !

Greetings from Germany,

M.

☆☆☆☆☆

[90sTVNews]

I like how they showed their original sign on back from 1957.

[NEUDude]

Wow, a very sad moment. RIP WFSB Analog, your memories will live on forever.

[Spookysr]

Yes WFSB has class!

However, I feel sorry for S.E.T.I. "recipients" who prolly just figured out within last 6 decades Philo Taylor Farnsworth's and Vladimir Kosma Zworykin's interlaced scanning synchronization methods of analog TV.

Just imagine the Chi Sagittari area (i.e. Wow!) "recipients" at Gliese 699 saying: "Hey Prot what happened to the Earth video signals? Have they gone to a new format? Aw crap it took us this long to figure out 1st one!".

Wont notice for 6 more yrs though!

/humor

[Spookysr]

"Wont notice for 6 more years though!"

That is of course that 90377 Sedna (2003 VB12) doesn't turns out to be something MORE* than it appears to be; well that means they find out in 48 days; sometime in August 2009.

*More = tinyurl-com/sedna90377

(/still tongue-in-check humor)

[scottct1]

Thanks for posting this! I watched at my office on a tiny 5 inch B&W TV as they signed off today. Now I am watching WVIT and WTIC and hope they both get a proper sendoff.

[TheKennesawKyuubi]

NICE! They actually played the sign-on video that's been floating around here for a while now. Best Analog sign-off i've seen so far!

[jlehmann]

Good to see them sign off properly! I hope someone in Boston does, but I don't have much confidence in that, with all owned by big companies, or in the case of WHDH-7, a "if it bleeds, it leads" station.

[dianablanton1984]

Thanks for posting this transition! :-)