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Uploaded by on Jun 13, 2009

KPNX 12 Mesa, Arizona, shut down its analog signal at 10:12 pm during the late local news. A three- or four-minute presentation ended in the control room with anchor Mark Curtis telling engineers at the tower and in the control room, "...let's flip the switch right now..." and suddenly, the signal cuts off abruptly while Curtis was in mid-sentence. Shutoff comes at 3:07 of this 4:00 video clip.

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  • wow when he says right now hes not kidding.

  • Yeah, I got the sense that the engineers jumped the gun. Curtis' voice inflections suggest he didn't literally mean "right NOW". :-)

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  • I smell some tropers.

  • "Lets flip the switch right now..."

    *LOUD STATIC*

    Scary

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  • I was waiting for the video to load while looking at TV Tropes. I see this video mentioned on Last Note Nightmare, and the video plays out while I'm reading about it. Nothing. Is. Scarier.

  • I remember when we had our signal shut off. I was sitting there, watching "Ed, Edd, and Eddy", the episode where Plank was treated to a whole myriad of different thrill rides from the Edds, and at that scene where he falls over to activate the the rollercoaster, just as he was fallin-KSHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!­!!

    Me: O holy FUCK what happened to mah EDDS!?!? MOM!!! We need to call Comcast, now, and fast!!!

  • Its nice that they could still brodcast my faorite kids show while they were making the switch, I love Candle Cove!

  • For some reason I LAUGHED at the timing

    "let's flip the switch right now"

    SHHHHHHHHHHHHH

  • Damn, that was pretty freaky. It even startled my dog.

  • @sasumekyoto34

    Exactly !

    - Dwight

  • Mother of fuck, that was freaky.

  • @573W1E6R1FF1N I think the took "Right Now" much too seriously!

  • 3:07 Looks like a station official took the switch flipping much too seriously.

  • THAT REALLY SCARES ME. WHEN I HEAR THAT ON HEADSET.

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