WTVJ Analog Transmitter's Last Day Of Operation - June 26, 2009 -- part one

Engineer Earnest Walker gives a video tour of WTVJ -- NBC 6 in Miami's analog transmitter just before turning it off for the last time. The transmitter was a 60 KW Larcan broadcasting on a tower 1850 feet tall.

[@halborth]

Very nice video! We had the same Larcan analog transmitters at Channel-5 and Channel-9 in New York City at the Empire State Building. I wish we could have also done something like this for the historic event!

[@johnissoevil]

@raymieX Actually, the button switched 6 from WCIX to WTVJ.

[@RaymieHumbert]

I imagine one of those buttons was the one pushed to move WTVJ from 4 to 6 in 1995?

[@todieforher]

Nice Larcan!

[@telewizja_L4INE]

1:36 DTV ANSWERS Channel

[@NBC6Engineer]

Thank you @todieforher. It's old technology now. :-)

[@todieforher]

Not for us in Canada, we are still on the air with our analog Larcan, but after august 2011 its gonna be old technology for us to.

[@DJSubAir]

What channel?

[@itsPikachu]

All Canadian channels

[@DJSubAir]

​@@itsPikachuwhat I was asking is which channel he was shutting down in Canada

[@PAUL-A]

So what did NBC 6 Do with the old Tower, is it still up?

[@Meowbay]

What a waste of equipment that transition has been, right?

[@davidrileynyc5702]

Nope

[@hannamorgan4410]

I love analog television it's really good and awesome there was good sign offs and sign ons on analog television but now that we got digital television now all the television stations don't sign off anymore but that tower is big it's really awesome

[@michaelhuynh8793]

@@hannamorgan4410 analog tv still around in the philphines

[@QueenDynamo]

@@michaelhuynh8793 And other countries too. Philippines should be doing the analog shutdown by 2023.

[@inny74]

@@michaelhuynh8793 "analog tv still around in the philphines" Not for long. It was supposed to be fully axed by 2021, but now it should be completely shut down by 2023.

[@telewizja_L4INE]

Nice this is programs on channel nbc and alls

[@johnissoevil]

You guys must have been partying, knowing that your over the air signal was going to cover the whole market from then on. I'm surprised they didn't do an on air ceremony about it, WTVJ was in a great position to boast about their expanded over the air coverage.