WTVJ Analog Transmitter's Last Day Of Operation - June 26, 2009 -- part one

Engineer Earnest Walker gives a video tour of WTVJ -- NBC 6 in Miami's analog transmitter just before turning it off for the last time. The transmitter was a 60 KW Larcan broadcasting on a tower 1850 feet tall.

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Science & Technology

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• TV
• Transmitter
• Tower
• NBC
• Analog
• Broadcast

[NBC6Engineer]

Thank you @todieforher. It's old technology now. :-)

[KUSA1]

So what did NBC 6 Do with the old Tower, is it still up?

[SUPERDAVIDLEVINE]

it woukld be intesting the noration but it is destoreddd h who n un understand one word siad I wonder who old it is could it go back tothe first days of color

[johnissoevil]

You guys must have been partying, knowing that your over the air signal was going to cover the whole market from then on. I'm surprised they didn't do an on air ceremony about it, WTVJ was in a great position to boast about their expanded over the air coverage.

[johnissoevil]

@raymieX Actually, the button switched 6 from WCIX to WTVJ.

[digitalmasterdata]

wow awesome stuff !! what happen with all of that equipment after this ? :)

[raymieX]

I imagine one of those buttons was the one pushed to move WTVJ from 4 to 6 in 1995?

[todieforher]

Not for us in Canada, we are still on the air with our analog Larcan, but after august 2011 its gonna be old technology for us to.

[todieforher]

Nice Larcan!