Historic Moment - KICU Transition to Digital TV and shut down analog signals

That's truly the historic moment for TV broadcasting in the U.S., when FCC requests most TV stations to postpone their transitions to Digital Television until June 12, there have been about 500 TV stations across the country turned off their analog broadcast signals exactly at 11:59:59 pm on February 17, 2009. KICU-TV 36 is one of the early switchoff stations, this video is few minutes before and after the analog signals were shut down, you can see a few seconds of black screen, then playing the recorded program from National Association of Broadcasters, which is telling you that your TV isn't ready for Digital Television Transition, and a short tutorial about Digital Television. In San Francisco Bay Area, that recorded program is on air around the clock on KICU-TV 36 and KOFY-TV 20 if you receive analog signals on your TV.

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[ettessa1]

this is gay

[dapet123456]

The FCC allowed stations to broadcast this "nightline" for at most 30 days after the switch (July 12, 2009). Stations that switched in February are immune from this because they have no restriction on whether they can broadcast in analog (until June 12).

[TheWestCoastBias]

The best part of the video:

#t=3m02s

[MarioMania05]

Wait, KOFY went off also

[jerrymouse16]

Do You Have KOFY's Analog Shutoff?

[vikingscool]

My local station WUCW has nightlite for 30 days that is about DTV instruction.

[bwc1976]

Excellent, thank you for capturing this!