2009 DTV Transition: Analog TV Shutoffs in Los Angeles As They Happened

[@johnissoevil]

From the analog sign offs I've seen on KZbin so far, it appears Rupert Murdoch wanted his stations to transition very quietly. WNYW and WWOR in New York just went to static so suddenly.

[@richartrod]

Yes, KTLA is indeed the first commercially-licensed station west of the Mississippi; it too was an experimental station, W6XYZ, from 1939 to 1947 when it received the commercial license. KCBS is probably the oldest-oldest station in L.A., having begun as W6XAO in 1931. Paramount Studios, which founded W6XYZ-KTLA, probably picked its experimental call sign in true Hollywood manner for marketing reasons. :)

[@Kaoras]

Nice that you managed to get these all. I live in Ridgecrest, my dad used to help with the local TV Booster organization. I remember how the repeater on Channels 63 and 69 almost never worked, and it was a shot in the dark on getting Pokemon, and once the Community College jammed the incoming video, but the audio still played! That was fun. I'm now also nostalgic for the old TV signoffs/ons. We had a satellite installed in 1991, I still remember catching unedited feeds. =)

[@richartrod]

Good job with the eight channels you were able to record. KTLA's on-air party with Stan Chambers and "The Big Switch" is far and away the best one, with KLCS' logo history to REM's "The End of the World As We Know It" (how true) a close second. Rich Rodriguez West Covina, CA

[@PsychoGolazo]

KMEX was the only station that made a segment of their enitre analog history before shutting down.

[@davenwin1973]

That's a good compilation for what you were able to get. In Chicago, some stations signed off with a warning (mainly WLS-TV, WBBM-TV, WGBO, & WXFT) that they were signing off, & the 4 mentioned required people to rescan to get them. WYCC in Chicago signed off on April 16th while the rest signed off on June 12th. I was at work during the signoff of most, as many signed off at noon June 12th. WBBM-TV had to wait for WTTW to sign off on 11 in order to sign on from 2/DT3 to DT12.

[@beerrox711]

cool i only got KTLA,KMEX, and KAZA (switched 12:04 so it was the last one)

[@ChuckRowe]

Nice post. There was a lot less fanfare here in the boonies.

[@MrFeelGoodJson24YTP]

4:52 Hazma pretinin, derakuta! "Better to be safe, than sorry!" Better to be DTV, than sorry! LOL

[@ElsewhereIsHere]

Very cool

[@coffeeandsugar20]

Lol, I thought they were joking at first at 3:52

[@GoRabbids]

fuck , i am screwed it is the end of the world