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KOVR 13 Sacramento last analog commercial break and shut-down
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- Опубликовано: 19 авг 2024
- Here's the very end of KOVR-13's analog broadcast on June 12th 2009- newscasters doing meaningless chit-chatting while someone cuts to a shot at the transmitter site. Then we have the last ever commercial break, final commercial being for Gottshalks going-out-of-business sale. The station goes off the air with live video of the transmitter's meters going down, audio signal goes out before the video does. Newscaster Sam Shane mistakenly tells us that the transmitter is in Walnut Creek- it's actually in Walnut GROVE, about 100 miles difference.
KOVR started in 1955 (I think) as an ABC affiliate, and was the first station in the area to start broadcasting in stereo in 1985. (The neighboring San Francisco market wasn't nearly as fast; it took ABC-owned KGO channel 7 until 1987 to get stereo!) In 1995 they lost their ABC affiliation to KXTV channel 10, which was a CBS affiliate but wanted to switch to ABC since they had better ratings at the time, so KOVR got stuck with CBS. Then in 1998, network TV slit its own throat when CBS started keeping their logo onscreen during all their shows, and ABC followed soon afterwards- this resulted in KOVR spending more time broadcasting the CBS logo than KXTV ever did, and likewise for KXTV with ABC's logo. I pretty much stopped watching TV after that; I think KOVR's HD digital station went on the air around 1998, but with the CBS logo on the screen I wasn't interested in seeing that in higher resolution. CBS ended up buying KOVR and moving it together with channel 31 (which got stereo a couple weeks after KOVR did), which was a UPN and now a CW station which Viacom had already bought a couple years prior.
Since the purchase they have been known as "CBS13", and thankfully did not use a bug on syndicated shows, but as you can see here they put an annoying logo onscreen during their newscasts, which started rotating every 15 seconds and then got an animated shine put on it.
Despite TV sucking beyond belief during its final 10 years, I felt I had to preserve as much of the end of analog TV as I could. Sorry it took me a while to upload this, but I've been busy with going back to school (I did however watch the entire last day of analog broadcasting) and had to pick this up from my parents' house- I had them record it on their DVD recorder from a roof antenna which has always gotten perfect reception of the local stations; I live in an apartment and just have an indoor antenna so the reception here wasn't as good. There is a slight problem with the sound which seems to have been at the station's end- notice what happens whenever someone says a word with the "S" sound in it. Quite annoying when watching on a Pro-Logic system as it leaked to the rear channels whenever that happened.
Analog television is going away in 3... 2... 1...
*button pressed*
We are now in digital television, from this point forward...
*sound fades in static*
... there will no longer...
*sound is fully static, image is still okay*
*in few seconds, image goes static too*
2:41 That was the theme of my childhood. :’)
The weird part is that the video of the meters going down and moments after he pushed the button still aired and the sound went down first then the video. I wonder why, other stations cut off rather suddenly
I think trasmitter’s amplifier wasn’t designed to be shut off immediately but it had to be shut down gradually. The sound carrier was broadcast with significantly less power than the video carrier, like the audio carrier was about 10 times weaker than the video carrier. You can actually see the audio carrier’s power going gradually down by the needle after he presses the button. Remember these were very high power electronics, like they had about 100-1000 kilowatts of power.
@@justaguy9224 Exactly. You can see at 0:16 the buttons he was pressing was Aural and Visual power lower before pressing the plate off switch.
Forgot how much of a pain in the ass making phone calls used to be
Last things seen:
- Promo for Numbers
- Casino ad
- Water park ad
- Verizon ad, with LG and Need For Speed Undercover product placements. Of all games released on mobile phones... NFS Undercover. Really?
- The cherry on top, the iconic Empire Today commercials and more iconic jingle.
- What the fuck is a Gottschalks? I guess thats why they went out of business. No matter, because they are engraved into television history.
- News bumper promo
Gottschalks was a department store based in Fresno that expanded into a few other nothing-cities in CA. The one mentioned here is now a supermarket.
That's sad. lol
It makes you feel all alone when the snow fuzz comes up. :(
And in case anyone's keeping track, channel 23 went digital a few months ago. I now do not get any analog stations in clearly, and there are 3 stations left that show any trace of a signal.
HERE IN THE PHILIPPINES, DECEMBER 31, 2015 THE NEXT YEAR IS OUR OFFICIAL DIGITAL SWITCHOVER!
Joshua Duque Sarmiento I just visit the Philippines it’s still analog intill 2023
Metropolis 630 I’m in the Philippines it still have analog intill 2023
There are still a few low-power TV stations on the air- in Sacramento we have channel 8 which has international programming including Russian, Vietnamese and Indian, and channel 23 which has the Home Shopping Network. Neither are in stereo but have pretty good reception, there's a few other stations that don't come in too well- all are either Spanish or religious networks.
2:41
Now all the networks- broadcast and cable- have their logos onscreen throughout their shows. And not just the networks but their affiliates as well. It's been nearly 20 years since networks began to degrade video recording of shows. When they got to the point of doing pop-ups for other programming on the network, it ruined video recording for good.
And there's been ZERO examples of anything that's been gained by doing that all this time. The general public is so blind that they don't even notice them, while it's caused me to quit watching completely. Amazingly though The Simpsons currently airs on Fox with NO on-screen crap at all, someone at the show must have fought really hard for that- I've started watching that show again though there are still far too many commercials.
I believe they shut off the analog stereo power then the video
Allow me to answer that for ya,
carmenlee87 !,
The People who are watching TV via antenna beyond prior to this time on
June 12th, 2009 who don't have a digital box, well, They have lost the TV Station's Signal now which means that they are going to be seeing A SNOW COVERED SCREEN 24/7 365. Now. The only option they have NOW for Recieving any kind of entertainment, Or Recieving Any News Broadcasts is By Radio.
~ Dwight
And channel 45 just went off a couple weeks ago, leaving only two now... Channel 15 at least is in stereo, the only way to make sure the analog stereo decoder in my new TV actually works!
The Media Hoarder and 2019 Kstv left the air with no more analog in Sacramento
i love the pinata ad. hilarious!
@eyeh8nbc Channel 8 went to digital last month- now all we have left is channel 23! I should buy stuff from the Home Shopping Network just to make sure it stays on the air! Channel 45 (a Jesus station) is still on too, but that still doesn't come in too well.
2:41 Empire Today
😮
Oh, and the guys name is Sam Shane.
Seriously, the new cast is better. lol
CBS 13 is now the most modern looking and easiest to watch local channel to me. :)
4:00 just do it
Hello pure digital tv rip analog 1923 2009
@southparkgtaca It does feel erie with that fuzz coming up.
Did you have the digital tv Version around here?
We have kstv LP Sacramento one analog station all my Sony Watchman
What abouth the people who did not have a digtal box. lol.
They see snow forever
Not like there's anything worth watching on the digital channel....