CBC January 6, 2006 Test Card

[@skull902]

Being from the metro Detroit area, we get Windsor's CBC feed and I have a bit of nostalgia for this screen because I'd watch their weekly late-night airings of Godzilla films on Saturdays back then (2005-06). Soon as the movie was done, this would show up. The tones always came off as a bit eerie, I think combined with the extra bar of space on top and detailed CBC logo animation compared to what a typical pattern looked like, so I'd immediately hop up to change the channel. XD Particularly remember this after a showing of Terror of Mechagodzilla because of how weird and downbeat _that_ movie is, along with how the channel stopped airing the movies after that. What a note to end on. Then I found they were airing in the same slot again a few years later, complete with the same screen afterward. By then I was in my mid-teens so it felt like a blast from the past

[@mrconancat]

Thanks for posting. This is what I have playing in the background so I can sleep at night.

[@cliffgebhard8984]

mrconancat haha I used to have to have this on to sleep as a kid, but I also used to stick my finger in my R2D2 lamp for fun electrocuting myself, was a strange kid, glad someone shares part of that weirdness. Lol,

[@TransitInsider]

What you call "dialing sounds" are actually command sequences sent down the network line to stations. It has been common practice for decades to use the same touch-tones for this as are used for telephone dialing, as the technology was easily adapted for that purpose: I worked for a radio station in the 1970s affiliated with Associated Press Radio for its network news and APR used touch-tones to allow stations to auto-record programming (sportcasts preceded with the "3" tone, for example).

[@cliffgebhard8984]

K.M. Richards wow, I always wondered if it was my TV picking up neighbors phone dialing, haha, this always put me to sleep when I was a kid tho, weird I guess. Kind of like finding out Santa's not real all over again now that I know what the dials are, lol

[@ChristopherSobieniak]

This is known as Daul-Tone Multi-Frequency" or "DTMF". en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual-tone_multi-frequency_signaling Early cable TV channels used to use this method so local cable operators could automatically switch feeds to show local ads during break periods.

[@ChristopherSobieniak]

I recall CBET in Windsor used this version of the color bars shown here except for the inclusion of text in the center bordered by a transparent bar that says "CBC Windsor".

[@kaiokendo]

at the end of the signoff i heard a song with the logo and a white background where is this song??

[@ftjm69]

I remember that CBC logo from 2006 with all of the white things in the background. Were those spotlights?

[@bryanyancy6100]

That might be CBC Vancouver from 2006, maybe.

[@dimazzz95]

CBC Montreal TV-6 (CBMT-TV 6) in January 6, 2006