Detroit broadcasters go digital PART 2 OF 3

[@chetapace79]

Huh, it’s pretty fun to see the history of your local stations, the “if you have internet” part that the woman said on WXYZ gets me

[@1L6E6VHF]

At about 3:35, you can see a pattern of fine horizontal lines come into the picture and start hearing a high-pitch whistle in the sound. Another Channel 2 station started interfering with WJBK. This was quite the site that day. The analog shutdown was originally set for February (some stations actually did shut the analog signal off then). When some of the departing analog stations aired the "Nightlight" broadcasts, I was able to catch many other stations on channels 2 through 6, I received a LOT often those stations, because the June transition happened to be in the time of year when a naturally-occurring phenomenon called Sporadic-E skip reflects VHF signals back to earth. Some stations were from distances that were uncommonly short, or uncommonly long, for Sporadic-E. WJBK only had their nightlight service at full power for a few days, after which they operated at far less transmitter power. Oddly, this had the effect of changing WJBK's carrier frequency from plus offset (55.26 MHz) to zero offset (55.25 MHz).

[@davidkierzkowski]

interesting info.

[@gypsyofmst3k3415]

1:14 To get your all- (static) 3:45 Because there are gonna be a few show- (nightlight service goes on) 5:44 In 5, 4, 3, 2, 1! (static)

[@davidvelazquez9473]

2:17 After WXYZ turned off analog channel 7, WJBK turned off analog channel 2 and digital channel 58 to move to digital channel 7, because channels 52-69 were removed at that time. And after the repack, channels 38-51 suffered the same fate.

[@kargaroc386]

i remember watching this live 2017 edit: 7 years ago fuck

[@davidmatthewvinotjr8396]

Anyone got a Video link of WDIV's Switch (on the Analog Side)?

[@f0rbidden_cheeto]

Most digital transitions occurred in 2009, I think that was when television style was changed...

[@QueenDynamo]

What type of style? Programming? The physical looks of TV sets?

[@Nickelodeon7969]

​@QueenDynamo I think the tv sets design changes From Larger than a VCR to the size of a PC monitor

[@DJPaolo0711]

what was happening?

[@elizabethfrohn-hengst296]

This was the day for all television networks to stop using analog signals per the FCC (federal communications commission) mandate. This was to open up the airways because analog television took up more spectrum space than digital signals

[@matthewcampbell7985]

Summer 2019 10 years of digital television for USA.

[@BethTheCat]

Actually 10 years since the analog signals cut off, but still works

[@Boys-AllTheStuffAndMore]

LP stations will go in 2021.

[@hrose756]

@@Boys-AllTheStuffAndMore What is LP??

[@QueenDynamo]

@@hrose756 Low-power. The remaining tv stations in the US that operate at frequencies lower than the usual tv network had shut down as of July 2021.

[@connorsentance6089]

Wjbk think is New Year's Eve or the fourth of a July but is June not July or December

[@1L6E6VHF]

WJBK (2) wasn't really honest about those "switches", as the program continued in analog for several seconds after the switches were thrown - after which analog 2 continued to transmit the "nightlight" instructional video. As for the switches, I don't know what they were actually doing. The "switches" may have been just for show - or they could have been cutting power from the RF channel 58 transmitter and powering up the RF channel 7 transmitter. Note at about 3:30 the signal is getting co-channel interference. It just so happened that there was also a legendary session of Sporadic-E openings that day, as June is the month when Sporadic-E is most frequent.

[@Boys-AllTheStuffAndMore]

They said IT’S LIKE NEW YEAR’S EVE.