(Granada) Plus End Test Card 23 Nov 2010.mpg

Test Card Showing the closedown of Plus (formerly Granada Plus) which took place on 1 November 2004.

This video was recorded on Tuesday 23 November 2010 over 6 years after the Plus channel stopped broadcasting on analogue Virgin Cable TV. Possibly the longest time that a closedown testcard has still been visible after the closure of the channel.

On 1 November 2004 the digital version of Plus was replaced by ITV 3 within hours of the Plus channel closing down. On analogue cable TV Plus was replaced by this message which remains to this day.

The video was recorded from the Nottingham network (formerly ntl and Diamond Cable).

The only remaining channels at this stage in analogue cable TV switchoff in Nottingham are:
VHF ch 2 - Plus Testcard
UHF ch 22- Five
ch 24 - BBC 1 East Midlands
ch 26 - ITV 1 Central East Midlands
ch 28- Channel 4 - East Midlands
ch 30 - BBC 2 East Midlands
ch 32 - BBC 1 Yorkshire and Lincolnshire

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• Granada
• Plus
• Testcard
• 2010

[simplyastag]

I used a Hauppage TV Card.

It's capable of tuning in VHF channels including those which were on cable. I did try my analogue cable box but it no longer works now that I don't have a subscription.

Analogue cable in the Nottingham region was only switched off in early 2010 and still carries the 4 analogue terrestrial networks.

[Chao772TheThird]

Plus was closed down halfway through "Pie in the Sky" at 16:30 hrs on 1 November 2004 to make way for ITV3 and the first programme on ITV3 was STV's Rebus. The Analogue Cable version of Plus had a NTL slide saying "Plus is no longer broadcasting".

[chaoreturnsforgood76]

Hold on you used an Analogue Cable box to record this?

I thought it became obsolete in around 2002!

[samandrach14a]

we all had to go digital because they could fit more channels in ,and they have spent 6 years broadcasting this!!!!!! analogue was better than digital ,Too much choice now takes 10 mins to flick through , boooooooo digital!