Intro - 0:00 The Early Days - 1:02 Intro to my analog TV trips in 2021 - 5:12 WBPN-LP and WXXW-LP footage - 6:08 WVOA-LP footage - 9:45 CIII-TV2 footage - 10:24 WAWW-LP footage 11:13 WVOA-LP Last Day of Analog Footage - 13:04 The final shutdown - 15:24
0:46 wnep the news station witch is the news I still watch on there news app and streaming TV services but where I live in NEPA I can't get Antenna TV and cable tv cost to much for what we watch
I am 66 years old,I remember being both an antenna mast and a remote control as a child. I guess you could call me antenna boy at that time. Love the trip down memory lane ,Tyler.
Yes and there also were those UHF converter boxes that sat on top of the TV with the hoop antenna on them. Back then a mere mortal could understand how a TV worked.
@@kensmith5694 We had The big Color TV that had a built in UHF tuner and the old back and white TVs didn't.The only thing that was on UHF was Stock Reports and Spanish programming in Chicago until the 1970s ,so we didn't need it. I do remember seeing UHF in the late 60s but it was just a novelty.
Hey Antenna Man, not related to analog but I want to thank you for creating these videos, as it's one of the reasons today I can finally say our house has officially cut the cord!
What a way to end 2021 on the channel. Thanks for contributing in archiving analog footage. Happy New Year everyone, and lets hope 2022 is a better year for everyone!
I’m on the younger side of life, and it makes me said that I never got to experience analog tv in its prime, having a little tv in a portable radio or a tuner in your cell phone seems so cool. Also, hi from Pittsburgh, nice to see another Pennsylvanian on RUclips.
I watched the whole video because it brought back many memories for me. This was a great tribute to a great era in television. I still remember vividly taking my portable Sony B&W TV up the hill (it took 9 D cells for a little over an hour and a half of viewing) behind my dad's house so my brother, cousin, and I could watch "Twilight Zone or "The Outer Limits" on Channel 17 or Channel 48 out of Philly. Leave it to the government to screw up something that was good for the sake of progress, I think.
I learned how to get a better analog signal by trying to just get in a digital signal. Analog had a much lower cut-off point but always had some noise even with the strongest signals.
Very nice video! I'm 30 and remember watching analog TV in the 90s. Sometime around the year 2000 we got cable and never really watched analog again (wish I would've but I was too young to be interested enough). I bought my own house this year and installed a big VHF/UHF yagi on the roof and am back on OTA TV, although digital. It's better, but I agree with you it had its charm. I remember dad turning the antenna with an old RCA rotator to get the best picture. I put a rotator on my new antenna because the kid in me still likes to turn the dial and go out and watch it. But, I can get 3 different markets with the rotator so it pays to have it. Even though digital is much better I still kinda wish I could turn back time and watch some analog again, along with a few of those old ads I distinctly remember.
Thank you for sharing your passion. Half of the fun is finding the signal and then receiving the best possible signal. Many times I find that I will bust my hump just trying to make it work..then I hardly ever just sit and watch.
I stayed till the end. My most memorable favorite part I loved to mess with the picture on analog tv and also knocking on the tube tv when I was little.
Thanks for the memories Tyler! I was very upset when digital TV was first forced upon us all those years ago but I’m a believer now, especially since recently installing my ClearStream 2V antenna. I now miss the snow on my screen about as much as I miss shoveling snow in Upstate NY in January and February😉😉😉
Wonderful video. I stuck around. We got our first tv, an RCA 21 inch console, a year before Mobile, Ala got its first station. We watched WDSU TV channel 6 from New Orleans. Almost impossible but occasionally we got a signal. Very tall antenna on the roof. This was 1952.
Antenna Man, I watched it to the end to absorb as much nostalgia as possible. I’m probably older that your parents and remember when Boston expanded from 2 to 3 analog stations for ABC, NBC, & CBS. I remember when PBS , channel 2 was added, but their programming had nothing for kids. I remember helping my father install a large outdoor antenna with rotator from Radio Shack using 300 ohm flat twin-lead. We could pull-in affiliate stations from Providence, but somewhat snowy. Later, UHF was a hoot as we adjusted the wire loop shipped with every TV. I remember installing a 20+ element antenna in the attic of my brother’s house in Martha’s Vineyard, MA about 25 years ago because there was no cable TV. Now, he has cut the over-priced Comcast cord and that same antenna delivers about 20 very clear digital stations. We were impressed.
I do remember when Analog switched off very well. December 2013 was when the final Analog signals were switched off in Australia. Since I only had a UHF antenna and since all my local Analog services were switched off in Early June of 2012, the only channel I got was SBS Sydney being received about 65 miles from the Broadcast Tower. I do remember during one of its foreign language News Broadcasts that it would air in the morning, the signal just cut into static. But Channel 7 in Sydney on the VHF Band marked the occasion by showing their old sign off sequence from around the 70s before switching off their signal.
It's always interesting to catch the last minutes of a station's shutdown. Most aren't really that interesting but a few actually did make some effort to make it a special moment. I've got a (digitized) copy of Cringely: A Digital Crash Course that talks about the introduction of digital TV recorded in analog. In it he talks about a lot of things that wound up not happening such as interactive TV but have been suggested for ATSC 3.0. So everything people are predicting for 3.0 were predicted decades ago.
What I miss about analog TV, besides DX’ing, is the fact the even a marginal signal could give you a tolerable picture to watch. With ATSC 1.0, the picture is gone and even a medium signal can often been scrambled.
As a kid I would watch American Bandstand at 5pm which was only available on a station 90 mi. away in New Haven. We had a massive single channel Ch 8 antenna on the roof, and of course the reception was snowy, BUT, as a kid, watchable! Today, that same station as digital, can't be received at all from my old home.
@@RickPaquin I am on Long Island and we used to get WTNH from New Haven also. The programming usually mirrored WABC 7 in New York but they often had their own programming that we would watch. Since the digital conversion I too cannot receive them.
I miss analog broadcasting TV, I used to watch dozens of channels for free, and memories of watching cartoons on Fox Kids and Kids WB! Analog broadcasting never froze and still more reliable than digital broadcasting!
Man what a time to have lived through. I am 29 and to think that a whole generation after me won't know what analog is or the joys of watching television. I remember very well when in 2009 everything went digital. We had to get a converter box, which the u.s government partially funded. It was a clearer picture yes, but such an inconvenience to be able to get a set top box. There would be days when all I had to look forward to was watching tv. I would watch endless hours of whatever was on tv, whether it be infomercials, pbs specials or just cable television. The entertainment that I get out of my phone now, I would get out of a tv.
I'm your age. I think we got the best of both worlds - the analog era and the new digital era with smartphones and such. I occasionally miss the simpler times but I wouldn't have been able to make a living off RUclips if it weren't for the tech era.
1. Yes, I would like to see a video of the remaining LP stations. 2. I did stay and watch the whole video. This kind of stuff interests me. I still miss NTSC somewhat. 3. I am not sure you know there is still a Franken-FM in Atlanta, Georgia, WTBS. It broadcasts a Spanish language format, but I was not in the area long enough to get an ID. I used to live in the Atlanta area, and this station has been around quite a while. From the little I have found on the internet, they have a special authorization to broadcast on 87.7. I now live 100 miles away and don't often get to Atlanta often.
Oh this really brings back some memories for me! I remember when I was a kid living in Texarkana, we got our TV stations out of Shreveport, LA. We were able to get 3 channels, KTBS, KTAL, and KSLA out of Shreveport. One of the stations required someone to ground the rabbit ear antenna out to receive. During a football game, my dad would make me or my brother stand and hold the antenna in order to pick up the channel! We got breaks at halftime. Me and my brother took turns so dad could watch his football game. Also, I remember very well falling asleep with the national anthem and the Glory glory hallelujah song and it going to a test pattern, then static until the morning. Those were the good old days of television. Thanks for sharing Tyler!
I would love a video about CIII and or the franken FM stations. I am keeping 87.7 FM alive with my Bluetooth FM modulator (within FCC regulations of since the signal doesn’t travel that far).
God I miss Analog TV. My entire growing up was analog. Naturally. I did have C Band satellite, but it was analog if I recall. I also got cable. But a lot of it was still analog.
Such good memories. I stayed with you the whole way through so good job putting together this video. I would love to see some footage from CIII-TV--2. Now I think it may be off the air since tomorrow is basically 2022 which means all Canadian analog stations should be shut down by then. Let me know how it goes.
I'd love to see a future video on anything left on analog that you can still find! I know i'm in the minority, but I still see some very clear advantages to analog television. After the switch to DTV took place, I lost more than I gained. It's evident that a DTV signal behaves differently than analog did, and for this reason, signals are not necessarily reliable.
This was a really fun video and quite look back at some fun times as a kid in the very early 90s. Definitely make the franken FM video that would be a great one to watch.
I remember once as a kid- my dad was painting the den- and the TV we had in that room- a small 13 Inch Sanyo was still able to pick up WLVI without the antenna connected.
I thought it was really cool that some people who have done TV DXing for a long time can get a signal from Cuba, The Bahamas, The Dominican Republic, Mexico, Central America and South America. RUclips user "Florida TV DX" has many videos dating back to the 1980s of his TV and radio DX captures.
Just discovered your channel tonight. I never thought I'd be interested in watching something like this but it's nice to go back in time around this time. I remember making a big deal out of the transition for the high power analog transition. It was exciting! Great video!
We had a full power channel 6, and when that went off a low-power Franken-FM went on in its place showing still pictures in the video. They now broadcast the FM along with Jewelry Television in ATSC 3.0 just to keep the specs in line. Analog TV was great if you had a good antenna and lived in the right place. We had a roof antenna with a rotor (it blew down a few years ago) which got all the local stations in perfect and a few from out of town. I have a few recordings from that uploaded though most of my uploads are from old tapes I found later, made before we even had a VCR. TV really hit its technical peak in the late 80s as they had clean masters of most stuff (no more 16mm film chains), stereo sound and NO logo bugs! Digital TV works better for places where you can’t set up a roof antenna, but the amount of compression is bad. There was one station here that ran HD with no subchannels (and no logo bug on non-network shows) but I still saw some compression artifacts. Some stations here run 10 subchannels and most of them look awful. The FCC should have required a minimum bitrate for all channels, but of course they didn’t.
I don't miss NTSC, although that's very specific to my location. ATSC brought error-correction, which allows me to get clean signal at my high elevation. Analog was just a train wreck of ghosting, but today I get 75 channels -- factoring in subs. Where I grew up, we had just three channels until PBS and UHF came along. Most stations shut down overnight. Running a transmitter was expensive, and very few people were awake to watch.
Loved the video. Watched it all the way through. My dad spent his entire career in analog tv-Channel 7 KOSA TV Odessa-Midland. Sad to see it go, even if digital tv does give us more channels and a better picture. Progress is sometimes painful.
Those where the days of analog TV 😥. Yes, I stayed all the way to the end of your video. I actually remember physically seeing analog to digital TV transition happening back in June 2009. Although it was quite sad to see them go, the old signal was still good. I was cool seeing them doing the actual switching on live TV. Bye bye analog TV 😢 we'll forever remember and miss ya...
Sadly I was only 4 when the DTV transition happened, so I wasn't really there to be able to see the real thing happen. Luckily I was able to get a bunch of recordings of WDCN-LP, but it's still sad knowing that analog in the US is officially no more.
I was 7 I never watched the shutdown because I didn't even know at the time nor would I have any interest in it at the time. The last full power analog tv station I remember watching was NBC 10 Philadelphia then several years after the shutdown I was able to pick up low powered HSN channel 41 and a very fringe Spanish station on 28 both of which were from Philadelphia. I wanna say they've been off the air for 6 years so I didn't get to see analog up to its very end.
For some of us, growing up was watching TV with reception that was typical in this video. In rural areas there was no cable TV, so all there was OTA TV that was crappy even with a expensive VHF antenna mounted\aligned properly for best possible reception. All there was ABC, NBC, CBS, and maybe a couple independent stations that played reruns. Then in the late 70s and into the 80s came the era of 10ft satellite dishes that brought in 24 channels per satelite with near perfect video\audio that was superior to cable TV (filled with electronic noise), which was ultimately replaced in the late 90s by small dishes we have now today
Hello, I live in Tampico, Tamaulipas, Mexico on the Gulf of Mexico coast and I remember (I think it was 2004 or 2005) a weird experience with analog TV. At that time I was 11 or 12 years old and I didn't know about tropospheric propagation or anything like that, the point here is that I remember receiving 3 analog signals that I couldn't identify. The three were Fox repeaters on channels 25, 29 and 44. I suspect that they were the following because of my location: Channel 25: WXXV in Gulfport, Mississippi. Channel 29: KABB in San Antonio, Texas. And in the case of channel 44: KWKT in Waco, Texas, or WGMB in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. It could be either the Texas or the Louisiana station. Sadly I couldn't identify none of the stations. Now in 2018 or 2019 (I don't remember) I experienced another similar situation, but with a digital TV station, in this case was KTBC (Channel 7) from Austin with its main channel and its 3 subchannels. Do you think it was a coincidence or not?, because KTBC is also a Fox repeater. My location is a privileged place to receive both radio and TV stations from all the Gulf zone, both from the US and from Mexico, and even from some American and Mexican states that are not in the coast.
One summer I could get Channel 2 out of Denver here in the springs, using a bicycle wheel as an antenna I love watching star trek and Gilligan's Island. It was s
Thanks Tyler for the "trip down memory lane". Yes I did watch the entire video and enjoyed it. I hope you do another one about the remaining franken FM's in this country as well.
I am only 20 years old and mostly grew up with cable, so I never really had much experience with OTA analog TV. However, I do remember the one time I am sure I did. I was 6 years old on a camping trip with my dad, which would've been 2007 I believe. We brought this interesting tall black and white TV along which had a built in light and all sorts of stuff. On that TV, we managed to pick up WSWP much further away than I can nowadays with a cheap antenna. The picture looked decent for what it is so long as you adjusted it right. I remember watching some sorta whale documentary that night and then watching Dragon Tales I think the next morning. It was odd seeing a cartoon so colorful on a black and white TV, but it was an interesting experience.
Oh yeah the old days. I used to have an old 13" portable b&w tv in my bedroom when I was a kid. That was in the 80s. We only had one color tv in the house back then. We used rabbit ears then. Lots of the neighbors had cable or outdoor antennas. My dad always wanted to put one up but never happened. We got cable in my teens which was the early 90s. That was analog too. I do miss the old days and to nostalgia of it. I became a trekkie from watching the original star trek on that Black &white tv. Now thanks to your channel I've become a cord cuter once more for almost a year now with my outdoor antenna. Because of my work with computers I'm in to messing with Plex and channels DVR now too. Amazing that I can get so much content with the antenna and free over the internet.
Thanks for sharing this excellent video. Here in Australia, the last of our analogue TV was switched off in December 2013. Everything went off, including both high and low power stations. As far as I know, no analogue TV continues to broadcast in Australia, though I often wonder about the self-help TV channels in various remote locations. We used to have a few self-help TV channels running in eastern Victoria years ago.
7:12 "After I confirmed there were 2 analog tv stations on the air in Binghamton, I checked into a local hotel." I don't know why, but I found that statement hilarious. LOL! Storm chasers have to check into hotel rooms too from town to town. So I'm just imagining an action thriller about Analog signal chasers! I'm not making fun of you BTW. I'm a fellow vintage tv collector, and I love this stuff. :)
As a Gen-Z'er who grew up on analogue since it was first available on B&W I will say and agree that it was quite an era. Yes, modern technology and all has made TV so much better in comparison. But analogue for me will always have that nostalgic charm. Especially when I get my monthly cable bill. Thank you Tyler for making this video and sharing. Is really cool to see a young guy as yourself with such knowledge and special fondness for analogue TVs and related tech.
That 100+ mile station you picked up must've been high-up. I remember if you had a TV with a very good tuner (most new, and old sets did not), you could pick up WNEW channel 8 in Portland, Maine. The transmitter was on top of Mt. Washington, about 125 miles LOS from Leominster, MA. (About 35 miles LOS WNW of Boston). The sound was very clear, picture was in color, but barely visible. Unfortunately they relocated the tower much closer to Maine, and it was gone when they did. When analog was to stop for good, we were allowed to have TV sets where I work. I took a minute after The Price is Right was over, to watch WBZ 4 (Boston), an analog signal on the air for over 70 years, stop.....sort-of. They, and their neighbor WCVB 5 aired an informational loop about how to convert to DTV for 1 week. Then those stations were gone for good. PS: Your old TV may be in need of a recapping, as the vertical linearity is out some. You might be able to find the VERT LIN pot inside (or if there's a service adjustment through the rear case) that may fix it, but it ultimately is due for recapping.
There's an interesting history of that Mt Washington station, which is WMTW. Their power station caught fire destroying part of the station. People had to live up there for weeks because it wasn't possible to get up or down from there in the winter. Brutal winters. The first FM Armstrong transmitter was installed up there which has historical significance, but from a business perspective, it wasn't a sustainable location for TV studio's or transmitters. The station still has a good signal contour but more practical from a maintenance standpoint.
@@andrewsanches3816 My family had a Sears, a Sylvania, and I owned a Panasonic that was capable of doing this (don't know the models, as they are old, and long gone). Every other set I used either picked up parts of 7, or 9.
Growing up, we had cable for as long as I can remember but I did have a cousin who lived out in the middle of nowhere who relied on a set of rabbit ears for his TV. Trying to find a clear TV station could be a real job.
When I moved to Central NC from NY I in 1980 (5th grade) I discovered WECT TV 6 (NBC) in Wilmington NC was available on FM radio. I liked it and miss it. When they went digital WECT was gone. I had to get a NBC station from Raleigh/Durham NC. I'm in the Raleigh/Durham market, but liked WECT. It was popular around here at the time. Tyler please keep making these videos.
Thanks for sharing these past stations reception. Nothing to do with your video. I am 65 and it made me remember back to the late 60s . When we got a color television. I am sure it was analog . Watched to the end and Happy New Year.
Hey tyler, I think I feel how you do, I mainly feel a bit disappointed that I never really got to experience analog over the air as it was way long before june of 2009, I really only found out about over the air I think it was a little after the original February of 2009 shut down date before it was pushed to june. I think I asked my grandfather's friend sometime after, I forget when I did though. I think I started finding out a bit that there were still some analog over the air tv stations left, but not high powered enough or close enough to be picked up by any antenna's. I myself sort of wish that a few analog stationa could come back for a few month's so I could sort of "experience" what it was like. And I mean some real analog stations. For you mentioning about staying throughout the video and most only staying only for about 5 to 10 minutes, as you can tell, I certainly did stay throughout most of the video. For your question about Franken FM, or ciii in canada, I mean, I'd like to learn a bit about it myself.
I can tell you that CIII (which calls itself "Global") is a Canadian TV chain that offers American TV shows to Canadian viewers. Note that the CIII call sign is rarely, if ever, heard on the air.
Yes the Day of Analog , back in it's Heyday , when UHF was the harder stations to pick over VHF , there were you could depending on where you live pick up VHF stations with near nothing of Antenna or at times not even have an Antenna for VHF still get some stations LOL , Happy New Year Taylor the Antenna Man .
Hey I stayed tune to the whole video up to " Good Bye My Old Fiend" although your videos are about American broadcast I'm from England in the UK and been viewing for a long while to your videos 😊
The only analog footage I ever got was from KKRA-LP, a repeater of KNBN in Rapid City, SD. I hooked up a antenna to a VCR, and recorded a bit of the station. Really the only time I've ever encountered a analog station.
If anyone can make a compelling video with a bunch of random analog clips it's you, thanks for the video Tyler. As a side note, I just found my old D-cell 12 volt powered 5 inch Radio Shack analog TV from the 80s. I'll have to see if it still works.
Yes, I would be most interested in seeing more of your analogue TV videos, especially the CIII 2 in Canada. Using channel 2 on Band 1, that channel could be received via SpE DX in other areas during favourable conditions.
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Intro - 0:00
The Early Days - 1:02
Intro to my analog TV trips in 2021 - 5:12
WBPN-LP and WXXW-LP footage - 6:08
WVOA-LP footage - 9:45
CIII-TV2 footage - 10:24
WAWW-LP footage 11:13
WVOA-LP Last Day of Analog Footage - 13:04
The final shutdown - 15:24
Till the end my friend, missing the static
0:46 wnep the news station witch is the news I still watch on there news app and streaming TV services but where I live in NEPA I can't get Antenna TV and cable tv cost to much for what we watch
@@ralfoxxy12 I sure do miss analog days 😢 should stayed.
@@ralfoxxy12 ya are local tv lol ha
I am 66 years old,I
remember being both an antenna mast and a remote control as a child. I guess you could call me antenna boy at that time. Love the trip down memory lane ,Tyler.
Yes and there also were those UHF converter boxes that sat on top of the TV with the hoop antenna on them. Back then a mere mortal could understand how a TV worked.
@@kensmith5694 We had The big Color TV that had a built in UHF tuner and the old back and white TVs didn't.The only thing that was on UHF was Stock Reports and Spanish programming in Chicago until the 1970s ,so we didn't need it. I do remember seeing UHF in the late 60s but it was just a novelty.
Hey Antenna Man, not related to analog but I want to thank you for creating these videos, as it's one of the reasons today I can finally say our house has officially cut the cord!
What a way to end 2021 on the channel. Thanks for contributing in archiving analog footage. Happy New Year everyone, and lets hope 2022 is a better year for everyone!
@corey Babcock dont bring politics into this smh :/
I’m on the younger side of life, and it makes me said that I never got to experience analog tv in its prime, having a little tv in a portable radio or a tuner in your cell phone seems so cool. Also, hi from Pittsburgh, nice to see another Pennsylvanian on RUclips.
I watched the whole video because it brought back many memories for me. This was a great tribute to a great era in television. I still remember vividly taking my portable Sony B&W TV up the hill (it took 9 D cells for a little over an hour and a half of viewing) behind my dad's house so my brother, cousin, and I could watch "Twilight Zone or "The Outer Limits" on Channel 17 or Channel 48 out of Philly. Leave it to the government to screw up something that was good for the sake of progress, I think.
Thank you for sharing all
your analog footage! ❤️
Great video! I miss the fuzz for sure. I know what my antenna gets now is better but the snow is missed. Thanks for the trip down memory line.
I learned how to get a better analog signal by trying to just get in a digital signal. Analog had a much lower cut-off point but always had some noise even with the strongest signals.
Very nice video! I'm 30 and remember watching analog TV in the 90s. Sometime around the year 2000 we got cable and never really watched analog again (wish I would've but I was too young to be interested enough). I bought my own house this year and installed a big VHF/UHF yagi on the roof and am back on OTA TV, although digital. It's better, but I agree with you it had its charm. I remember dad turning the antenna with an old RCA rotator to get the best picture. I put a rotator on my new antenna because the kid in me still likes to turn the dial and go out and watch it. But, I can get 3 different markets with the rotator so it pays to have it. Even though digital is much better I still kinda wish I could turn back time and watch some analog again, along with a few of those old ads I distinctly remember.
I miss the old analog single. Even if it was fuzzy you could still watch it
meanwhile with digital you just get pixels
Thank you for putting a charming bow tie on the end of an era. Happy New Year and Peace everyone. ✌
Thank you for sharing your passion. Half of the fun is finding the signal and then receiving the best possible signal. Many times I find that I will bust my hump just trying to make it work..then I hardly ever just sit and watch.
I stayed till the end. My most memorable favorite part I loved to mess with the picture on analog tv and also knocking on the tube tv when I was little.
Thanks for the memories Tyler! I was very upset when digital TV was first forced upon us all those years ago but I’m a believer now, especially since recently installing my ClearStream 2V antenna. I now miss the snow on my screen about as much as I miss shoveling snow in Upstate NY in January and February😉😉😉
Wonderful video. I stuck around. We got our first tv, an RCA 21 inch console, a year before Mobile, Ala got its first station. We watched WDSU TV channel 6 from New Orleans. Almost impossible but occasionally we got a signal. Very tall antenna on the roof. This was 1952.
Antenna Man, I watched it to the end to absorb as much nostalgia as possible. I’m probably older that your parents and remember when Boston expanded from 2 to 3 analog stations for ABC, NBC, & CBS. I remember when PBS , channel 2 was added, but their programming had nothing for kids. I remember helping my father install a large outdoor antenna with rotator from Radio Shack using 300 ohm flat twin-lead. We could pull-in affiliate stations from Providence, but somewhat snowy. Later, UHF was a hoot as we adjusted the wire loop shipped with every TV. I remember installing a 20+ element antenna in the attic of my brother’s house in Martha’s Vineyard, MA about 25 years ago because there was no cable TV. Now, he has cut the over-priced Comcast cord and that same antenna delivers about 20 very clear digital stations. We were impressed.
I do remember when Analog switched off very well. December 2013 was when the final Analog signals were switched off in Australia. Since I only had a UHF antenna and since all my local Analog services were switched off in Early June of 2012, the only channel I got was SBS Sydney being received about 65 miles from the Broadcast Tower. I do remember during one of its foreign language News Broadcasts that it would air in the morning, the signal just cut into static. But Channel 7 in Sydney on the VHF Band marked the occasion by showing their old sign off sequence from around the 70s before switching off their signal.
It's always interesting to catch the last minutes of a station's shutdown. Most aren't really that interesting but a few actually did make some effort to make it a special moment.
I've got a (digitized) copy of Cringely: A Digital Crash Course that talks about the introduction of digital TV recorded in analog. In it he talks about a lot of things that wound up not happening such as interactive TV but have been suggested for ATSC 3.0. So everything people are predicting for 3.0 were predicted decades ago.
Miss analog but seriously I miss quality television shows. HappyNew Year 2022!
What I miss about analog TV, besides DX’ing, is the fact the even a marginal signal could give you a tolerable picture to watch. With ATSC 1.0, the picture is gone and even a medium signal can often been scrambled.
As a kid I would watch American Bandstand at 5pm which was only available on a station 90 mi. away in New Haven. We had a massive single channel Ch 8 antenna on the roof, and of course the reception was snowy, BUT, as a kid, watchable! Today, that same station as digital, can't be received at all from my old home.
@@RickPaquin I am on Long Island and we used to get WTNH from New Haven also. The programming usually mirrored WABC 7 in New York but they often had their own programming that we would watch. Since the digital conversion I too cannot receive them.
I miss analog broadcasting TV, I used to watch dozens of channels for free, and memories of watching cartoons on Fox Kids and Kids WB! Analog broadcasting never froze and still more reliable than digital broadcasting!
Go to a thrift store and buy a converter box.
@@1L6E6VHF I already have a converted box, I’m talking about the old networks that are no longer broadcasted anymore.
Yes I watched the whole video. I’ll miss analog tv I used to watch it as a kid.
Man what a time to have lived through. I am 29 and to think that a whole generation after me won't know what analog is or the joys of watching television. I remember very well when in 2009 everything went digital. We had to get a converter box, which the u.s government partially funded. It was a clearer picture yes, but such an inconvenience to be able to get a set top box. There would be days when all I had to look forward to was watching tv. I would watch endless hours of whatever was on tv, whether it be infomercials, pbs specials or just cable television. The entertainment that I get out of my phone now, I would get out of a tv.
I'm your age. I think we got the best of both worlds - the analog era and the new digital era with smartphones and such. I occasionally miss the simpler times but I wouldn't have been able to make a living off RUclips if it weren't for the tech era.
I stayed until the end. Yes, more analog videos for sure!
1. Yes, I would like to see a video of the remaining LP stations. 2. I did stay and watch the whole video. This kind of stuff interests me. I still miss NTSC somewhat. 3. I am not sure you know there is still a Franken-FM in Atlanta, Georgia, WTBS. It broadcasts a Spanish language format, but I was not in the area long enough to get an ID. I used to live in the Atlanta area, and this station has been around quite a while. From the little I have found on the internet, they have a special authorization to broadcast on 87.7. I now live 100 miles away and don't often get to Atlanta often.
Analog is fascinating stuff. That was my childhood. I have a 4k tv and my VHS still is hooked up right beside my blu ray player
wow - end of an era for analog tv for 90+ years.
Oh this really brings back some memories for me! I remember when I was a kid living in Texarkana, we got our TV stations out of Shreveport, LA. We were able to get 3 channels, KTBS, KTAL, and KSLA out of Shreveport. One of the stations required someone to ground the rabbit ear antenna out to receive. During a football game, my dad would make me or my brother stand and hold the antenna in order to pick up the channel! We got breaks at halftime. Me and my brother took turns so dad could watch his football game. Also, I remember very well falling asleep with the national anthem and the Glory glory hallelujah song and it going to a test pattern, then static until the morning. Those were the good old days of television. Thanks for sharing Tyler!
It was an era of good entertainment late 50's early sixties.
Don't miss it. Thanks for the memories.
That's fun. I'm not the only geek out there. Lol! Love you channel!
These videos are incredible! I would love it if you made more videos of what is left of Analog in 2022
Georgia still has a 87.7 FM broadcasting. I believe it is in the Atlanta Area. I am 130 miles away and a few days ago I picked it up.
THANK YOU FOR ALL THE AWESOME VIDEOS
I would love a video about CIII and or the franken FM stations. I am keeping 87.7 FM alive with my Bluetooth FM modulator (within FCC regulations of since the signal doesn’t travel that far).
God I miss Analog TV. My entire growing up was analog. Naturally. I did have C Band satellite, but it was analog if I recall. I also got cable. But a lot of it was still analog.
I would absolutely love lots more Analog and FrankenFM videos. I am hung on every syllable of these videos.
So Cool . . . thanks for sharing !!! . . . and yes I stayed till the end ! And some 'Franken-Vids' would be cool !!!!
Such good memories. I stayed with you the whole way through so good job putting together this video. I would love to see some footage from CIII-TV--2. Now I think it may be off the air since tomorrow is basically 2022 which means all Canadian analog stations should be shut down by then. Let me know how it goes.
I really enjoy the videos & especially this one going down memory lane of analog tv, keep up the good work & reviews of the antennas
As a viewer from Canada I would be really pleased if you make a video about CII tv 2.
Awesome! A noteworthy video.
I'd love to see a future video on anything left on analog that you can still find! I know i'm in the minority, but I still see some very clear advantages to analog television. After the switch to DTV took place, I lost more than I gained. It's evident that a DTV signal behaves differently than analog did, and for this reason, signals are not necessarily reliable.
You get my nerd of the year award.
This was a really fun video and quite look back at some fun times as a kid in the very early 90s. Definitely make the franken FM video that would be a great one to watch.
Hey man, you make great technical content and are also wicked handsome. Keep em coming!
I love this video not only because of the time-lapse of analog television shutting down but seeing Tyler's younger self.
That was the beauty of analog dials, you could usually cheat a signal in to view or hear it.
I remember once as a kid- my dad was painting the den- and the TV we had in that room- a small 13 Inch Sanyo was still able to pick up WLVI without the antenna connected.
Preserving the history is important. Thank You.
I was playing with youtube on my 1970s panasonic tv when this go uploaded!
I thought it was really cool that some people who have done TV DXing for a long time can get a signal from Cuba, The Bahamas, The Dominican Republic, Mexico, Central America and South America. RUclips user "Florida TV DX" has many videos dating back to the 1980s of his TV and radio DX captures.
Just discovered your channel tonight. I never thought I'd be interested in watching something like this but it's nice to go back in time around this time. I remember making a big deal out of the transition for the high power analog transition. It was exciting! Great video!
We had a full power channel 6, and when that went off a low-power Franken-FM went on in its place showing still pictures in the video. They now broadcast the FM along with Jewelry Television in ATSC 3.0 just to keep the specs in line.
Analog TV was great if you had a good antenna and lived in the right place. We had a roof antenna with a rotor (it blew down a few years ago) which got all the local stations in perfect and a few from out of town. I have a few recordings from that uploaded though most of my uploads are from old tapes I found later, made before we even had a VCR. TV really hit its technical peak in the late 80s as they had clean masters of most stuff (no more 16mm film chains), stereo sound and NO logo bugs!
Digital TV works better for places where you can’t set up a roof antenna, but the amount of compression is bad. There was one station here that ran HD with no subchannels (and no logo bug on non-network shows) but I still saw some compression artifacts. Some stations here run 10 subchannels and most of them look awful. The FCC should have required a minimum bitrate for all channels, but of course they didn’t.
I don't miss NTSC, although that's very specific to my location. ATSC brought error-correction, which allows me to get clean signal at my high elevation. Analog was just a train wreck of ghosting, but today I get 75 channels -- factoring in subs.
Where I grew up, we had just three channels until PBS and UHF came along. Most stations shut down overnight. Running a transmitter was expensive, and very few people were awake to watch.
Loved the video. Watched it all the way through. My dad spent his entire career in analog tv-Channel 7 KOSA TV Odessa-Midland. Sad to see it go, even if digital tv does give us more channels and a better picture. Progress is sometimes painful.
I've really enjoyed watching your videos. THANKS for sharing!
Happy New Year from Bryan,tx
Have an awesome day and Happy New Year!
Those where the days of analog TV 😥. Yes, I stayed all the way to the end of your video. I actually remember physically seeing analog to digital TV transition happening back in June 2009. Although it was quite sad to see them go, the old signal was still good. I was cool seeing them doing the actual switching on live TV. Bye bye analog TV 😢 we'll forever remember and miss ya...
Sadly I was only 4 when the DTV transition happened, so I wasn't really there to be able to see the real thing happen. Luckily I was able to get a bunch of recordings of WDCN-LP, but it's still sad knowing that analog in the US is officially no more.
I was 7 I never watched the shutdown because I didn't even know at the time nor would I have any interest in it at the time. The last full power analog tv station I remember watching was NBC 10 Philadelphia then several years after the shutdown I was able to pick up low powered HSN channel 41 and a very fringe Spanish station on 28 both of which were from Philadelphia. I wanna say they've been off the air for 6 years so I didn't get to see analog up to its very end.
Like to see a video on the few analog stations still on the air.
anything on analog TV is a video I will watch
For some of us, growing up was watching TV with reception that was typical in this video. In rural areas there was no cable TV, so all there was OTA TV that was crappy even with a expensive VHF antenna mounted\aligned properly for best possible reception. All there was ABC, NBC, CBS, and maybe a couple independent stations that played reruns. Then in the late 70s and into the 80s came the era of 10ft satellite dishes that brought in 24 channels per satelite with near perfect video\audio that was superior to cable TV (filled with electronic noise), which was ultimately replaced in the late 90s by small dishes we have now today
Hello, I live in Tampico, Tamaulipas, Mexico on the Gulf of Mexico coast and I remember (I think it was 2004 or 2005) a weird experience with analog TV. At that time I was 11 or 12 years old and I didn't know about tropospheric propagation or anything like that, the point here is that I remember receiving 3 analog signals that I couldn't identify. The three were Fox repeaters on channels 25, 29 and 44.
I suspect that they were the following because of my location:
Channel 25: WXXV in Gulfport, Mississippi.
Channel 29: KABB in San Antonio, Texas.
And in the case of channel 44:
KWKT in Waco, Texas,
or
WGMB in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. It could be either the Texas or the Louisiana station.
Sadly I couldn't identify none of the stations.
Now in 2018 or 2019 (I don't remember) I experienced another similar situation, but with a digital TV station, in this case was KTBC (Channel 7) from Austin with its main channel and its 3 subchannels. Do you think it was a coincidence or not?, because KTBC is also a Fox repeater.
My location is a privileged place to receive both radio and TV stations from all the Gulf zone, both from the US and from Mexico, and even from some American and Mexican states that are not in the coast.
One summer I could get Channel 2 out of Denver here in the springs, using a bicycle wheel as an antenna I love watching star trek and Gilligan's Island. It was s
Scratchy but I could see the shows
Thanks Tyler for the "trip down memory lane". Yes I did watch the entire video and enjoyed it. I hope you do another one about the remaining franken FM's in this country as well.
that footage is soo cool to have a history of tv.
Happy new year! 📺
_edit:_ I stayed to the end 😎👍
7:21 Reminds me of watching TV in waiting rooms.
Good job love your channel !
I am only 20 years old and mostly grew up with cable, so I never really had much experience with OTA analog TV. However, I do remember the one time I am sure I did. I was 6 years old on a camping trip with my dad, which would've been 2007 I believe. We brought this interesting tall black and white TV along which had a built in light and all sorts of stuff. On that TV, we managed to pick up WSWP much further away than I can nowadays with a cheap antenna. The picture looked decent for what it is so long as you adjusted it right. I remember watching some sorta whale documentary that night and then watching Dragon Tales I think the next morning. It was odd seeing a cartoon so colorful on a black and white TV, but it was an interesting experience.
Happy New Year to Tyler and his family, friends and followers.
Oh yeah the old days. I used to have an old 13" portable b&w tv in my bedroom when I was a kid. That was in the 80s. We only had one color tv in the house back then. We used rabbit ears then. Lots of the neighbors had cable or outdoor antennas. My dad always wanted to put one up but never happened. We got cable in my teens which was the early 90s. That was analog too. I do miss the old days and to nostalgia of it. I became a trekkie from watching the original star trek on that Black &white tv.
Now thanks to your channel I've become a cord cuter once more for almost a year now with my outdoor antenna. Because of my work with computers I'm in to messing with Plex and channels DVR now too. Amazing that I can get so much content with the antenna and free over the internet.
Thanks for sharing this excellent video. Here in Australia, the last of our analogue TV was switched off in December 2013. Everything went off, including both high and low power stations. As far as I know, no analogue TV continues to broadcast in Australia, though I often wonder about the self-help TV channels in various remote locations. We used to have a few self-help TV channels running in eastern Victoria years ago.
I want to see more analog tv videos
Awesome video, thanks. Yes more on analog. Loved the old footage and dedication.
7:12 "After I confirmed there were 2 analog tv stations on the air in Binghamton, I checked into a local hotel." I don't know why, but I found that statement hilarious. LOL! Storm chasers have to check into hotel rooms too from town to town. So I'm just imagining an action thriller about Analog signal chasers! I'm not making fun of you BTW. I'm a fellow vintage tv collector, and I love this stuff. :)
That was a really fun trip!
As a Gen-Z'er who grew up on analogue since it was first available on B&W I will say and agree that it was quite an era. Yes, modern technology and all has made TV so much better in comparison. But analogue for me will always have that nostalgic charm. Especially when I get my monthly cable bill. Thank you Tyler for making this video and sharing. Is really cool to see a young guy as yourself with such knowledge and special fondness for analogue TVs and related tech.
Very cool of you !! Thumbs up !!
That 100+ mile station you picked up must've been high-up. I remember if you had a TV with a very good tuner (most new, and old sets did not), you could pick up WNEW channel 8 in Portland, Maine. The transmitter was on top of Mt. Washington, about 125 miles LOS from Leominster, MA. (About 35 miles LOS WNW of Boston). The sound was very clear, picture was in color, but barely visible. Unfortunately they relocated the tower much closer to Maine, and it was gone when they did.
When analog was to stop for good, we were allowed to have TV sets where I work. I took a minute after The Price is Right was over, to watch WBZ 4 (Boston), an analog signal on the air for over 70 years, stop.....sort-of. They, and their neighbor WCVB 5 aired an informational loop about how to convert to DTV for 1 week. Then those stations were gone for good.
PS: Your old TV may be in need of a recapping, as the vertical linearity is out some. You might be able to find the VERT LIN pot inside (or if there's a service adjustment through the rear case) that may fix it, but it ultimately is due for recapping.
There's an interesting history of that Mt Washington station, which is WMTW. Their power station caught fire destroying part of the station. People had to live up there for weeks because it wasn't possible to get up or down from there in the winter. Brutal winters. The first FM Armstrong transmitter was installed up there which has historical significance, but from a business perspective, it wasn't a sustainable location for TV studio's or transmitters. The station still has a good signal contour but more practical from a maintenance standpoint.
what tv had a very good tuner back then? I have an NTSC demoulator with a noise figure of just 5 decibels
@@andrewsanches3816 My family had a Sears, a Sylvania, and I owned a Panasonic that was capable of doing this (don't know the models, as they are old, and long gone). Every other set I used either picked up parts of 7, or 9.
Yo Tyler, great videos man, very informative. Just picked me up a solid copper 50ft coax cable through your amazon store. Hope this helps. Thanks
Growing up, we had cable for as long as I can remember but I did have a cousin who lived out in the middle of nowhere who relied on a set of rabbit ears for his TV. Trying to find a clear TV station could be a real job.
This video was a trip back in time, I missed Analog TV.
When I moved to Central NC from NY I in 1980 (5th grade) I discovered WECT TV 6 (NBC) in Wilmington NC was available on FM radio. I liked it and miss it. When they went digital WECT was gone. I had to get a NBC station from Raleigh/Durham NC. I'm in the Raleigh/Durham market, but liked WECT. It was popular around here at the time. Tyler please keep making these videos.
Great video's very informative.. thanks for sharing. I'm going to but a new antenna...
Thanks for sharing these past stations reception. Nothing to do with your video. I am 65 and it made me remember back to the late 60s . When we got a color television. I am sure it was analog . Watched to the end and Happy New Year.
Hey tyler, I think I feel how you do, I mainly feel a bit disappointed that I never really got to experience analog over the air as it was way long before june of 2009, I really only found out about over the air I think it was a little after the original February of 2009 shut down date before it was pushed to june. I think I asked my grandfather's friend sometime after, I forget when I did though. I think I started finding out a bit that there were still some analog over the air tv stations left, but not high powered enough or close enough to be picked up by any antenna's. I myself sort of wish that a few analog stationa could come back for a few month's so I could sort of "experience" what it was like. And I mean some real analog stations. For you mentioning about staying throughout the video and most only staying only for about 5 to 10 minutes, as you can tell, I certainly did stay throughout most of the video. For your question about Franken FM, or ciii in canada, I mean, I'd like to learn a bit about it myself.
Thank you for this channel, long time watcher ♥️
I almost cried when the last analog channel went to static
I started recording Television back in 1979. So much footage but so little time to post it
Stayed until the end, I am actually really interested in learning more about CIII
I can tell you that CIII (which calls itself "Global") is a Canadian TV chain that offers American TV shows to Canadian viewers.
Note that the CIII call sign is rarely, if ever, heard on the air.
Antenna Man is a hero and natural treasure!!!
Yes the Day of Analog , back in it's Heyday , when UHF was the harder stations to pick over VHF , there were you could depending on where you live pick up VHF stations with near nothing of Antenna or at times not even have an Antenna for VHF still get some stations LOL , Happy New Year Taylor the Antenna Man .
In countries like turkey,the phillipines,Nicaragua,etc there are still full power analog tv broadcasts
Can't wait to see 1.0 to go
June 12 2029 my prediction
Hey I stayed tune to the whole video up to " Good Bye My Old Fiend" although your videos are about American broadcast I'm from England in the UK and been viewing for a long while to your videos 😊
The only analog footage I ever got was from KKRA-LP, a repeater of KNBN in Rapid City, SD. I hooked up a antenna to a VCR, and recorded a bit of the station. Really the only time I've ever encountered a analog station.
If anyone can make a compelling video with a bunch of random analog clips it's you, thanks for the video Tyler.
As a side note, I just found my old D-cell 12 volt powered 5 inch Radio Shack analog TV from the 80s. I'll have to see if it still works.
I watched the whole video
And happy New Years
From Toronto Ontario Canada
Yes, I would be most interested in seeing more of your analogue TV videos, especially the CIII 2 in Canada. Using channel 2 on Band 1, that channel could be received via SpE DX in other areas during favourable conditions.