Vermont Public Televison - end of analog programming - 2/17/09

Vermont Public Television ends regular programming over it's analog transmitters on February 17th, 2009 at Midnight. This video contains the last ID/underwriter break at 11:30pm, followed by the intro for that evening's Charlie Rose program, followed by the rather unceremonious switchover to a looped message from DTVAnswers.com at exactly 12:00am that will run for the following 60 days. At that time, the analog transmitters will be shut down permanently. This video was edited to accommodate YouTube's 10 minute time restriction. This video is an off-air recording of WVER, Channel 28 in Rutland VT from southern Saratoga County NY, 55 miles from the transmitter.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• WVER
• WETK
• WVTA
• WVTB
• Vermont
• Public
• Television
• VPT
• analog
• TV
• 2/17/09
• shutdown
• Burlington

[JesseL85719]

2 weeks before VPT's transition to digital, the FCC passed a law called the "DTV Delay Act", which gave stations to decide to switch to digital on the following:

- June 12.

- A day after June 12.

- A day before June 12.

VPT chose to do the original February 17 date, signing off at 12 midnight.

[tktru]

Bunny!!

[mathiasvolta]

Farewell analogue television !

Thank you for upload ! 5*