KATU Sign-off

Friday June 12th was the official last day of analog television in the U.S. KATU TV switched off their analog transmitter on Ch. 2 at 11:35pm that night. This is a clip of both the digital and analog signal side by side so you can see the switch as it happened.

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Entertainment

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• DTV
• switch
• KATU
• analog
• digital

[uplinkpdx]

I work at the station and that computer terminal was the actual transmitter remote. No "ceremonial" switch that night. We did have an engineer at the transmitter site as a backup.

[jason24568]

1:21 (computer) "Press Enter Key for Analog is Going Bye Bye..." He pressed Enter key "Congratulations! You say bye bye to analog forever! Welcome to digital world forever!"

[jason24568]

@hkfreak They using a computer for analog transmission and they select "turn off signal" and they choose yes and they press the Enter key!

[duckduck96]

nice choice to show them side by side... makes a good comparison.

[grantclanidaho]

That makes me think to myself... Was that simply staged so as to show viewers a familiar face shutting analog off in a way the average person could understand while the actual cutoff was accomplished by an engineer somewhere else?

[rexxdexx]

Sweet Showing Both

analog and digital side by side

[hkfreak]

Awesome job. The enter key shuts the analog signal off?

[saturnday]

That is the best of the analog shutdown uploads, to show direct side by side.

Thanks for sharing.