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Uploaded by on Jun 13, 2009

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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  • 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.

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  • 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!"

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

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

  • 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?

  • Sweet Showing Both

    analog and digital side by side

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

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

    Thanks for sharing.

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