KDKA Channel 2 Pittsburgh, PA - Last Analog Transmission

In the final minutes of Friday, June 12, 2009 KDKA, broadcasting on VHF Channel 2 from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, ceased analog NTSC television broadcasts shortly after 11:59 PM eastern time, in accordance with FCC requirements.

This is that last analog signal, received by myself a little over 2 miles from their transmitter, recorded to my computer in DV format, and edited for time (the actual"signing-off" bits are untouched. I just cut down on the Letterman clips and commercials beforehand. If you want to skip Letterman entirely, just skip forward to around 3:07) The time at the bottom should be a fairly accurate indicator of the local time when it was broadcast.

This recording is presented for educational purposes only, in accordance with the Fair Use guidelines of U.S. Copyright law.

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• DTV
• Analog
• TV
• Shut-off
• Television
• WDTV
• Pittsburgh
• last
• transmission
• signal
• NTSC

[kenbob331]

Probably the best analog sign off out of any station in the country. Grew up watching this station whenever I would go back and see my relatives. Leave it to KDKA to do something like this.

[petey8887]

I'm so proud to be a Pittsburgher.

[FragglevisionReturns]

@aladdin1052 Thanks! :)

[aladdin1052]

@Fragglevision "Nurse Jackie" on Showtime.

[briwolfe1]

Now that my friends is a classy operation!

[JesseL85719]

@soupnazi45 YES HE IS

[Polybun]

you know the sad truth is, the sation probably caught hell from their affiliate for doing this. oh well, nice work folks.

[soupnazi45]

The same night Analog died in Pittsburgh, the Penguins won the Stanley Cup :)

[soupnazi45]

@FutureNewsAnchor I'm with coco!

[videonut33]

A good sign-off to a "Group W" station like TV2 to do that in 09.

[jeffwa2121]

For all those years that Bill Burns signed off with Good Night., Good Luck and Good News tomorrow.....

how nice of KDKA of end the final seconds of analog with those famous words.

Sure do miss Bill and Patti.

[FutureNewsAnchor]

@soupnazi45 Yeah, he should have retired years ago.