This was the proper way to say goodbye to an era that will be fondly remembered. Other stations did news broadcasts, some just did nothing. KDKA should be commended for doing their goodbye to analog the right way. Classy video.
@Jared DiCarlo - WRGB, Oldest (as Experimental) TV station in the World (1928), license # 4 by the FCC and oldest call sign letters in US TV (since 1942). Of the 5 oldest US TV licenses, the last 2 (WRGB and WNYW) didn't did NOTHING AT ALL for the ANALOG FAREWELL and # 3 (KYW) only "dusted off" their old Experimental Philco id.
As we bid farewell to David Letterman's late night show this week, we remember when Dave's show was cut off by the analog shutdown, of which KDKA's final analog shutdown is one of the finest to ever occur.
Before TV was on 24 hours a day, KDKA used to sign off with the video of the pilot and jet with the voiceover of the poem High Flight. This video brought back a memory I didn't know I had.
What happened during this transmission? The following in Pittsburgh, PA: 1. David Letterman makes a joke about the DTV transition (he doesn't even know what it means.) 2. Comcast sent you a message that they can help the elderly get ready for DTV. 3. David Letterman makes his top 10 questions sent to congress via phone (my favourite was the one about its relation to the swine flu.) 4. Promo for Nurse Jackie 5. High Flight 6. KDKA goes back in time during the SSB 7. Static; KDKA goes nightlight.
I really & truly love the mellowed-out rendition of The Star-Spangled Banner. I also love the part that Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania's very own KDKA-TV Channel Two went back in time to say the very least. Thanks for the memories! Bye now!
At 11:59:23 you hear Bill Burns' famous sign off "Good night, good luck and good news tomorrow" I had a tear in my eye...nicely done! what a way to go out...
I grew up in the ‘Burgh but had probably never stayed up late enough in my youth to see the High Flight segment. I assume this was from the 70’s, or at least pre-1986, as it contained the two lines popularized by President Reagan following the Challenger disaster: “…slipped the surly bonds of Earth…and touched the face of God.”
Just arrived here from TV Tropes! This was brilliant and it must have definitely made some people shed a tear! This is a brilliant goodbye to their analog transmission!
That was the "coolist" analog sign off I have seen of all the TV Stations who have posted their analog sign offs in 2009. I remember High Flight very well when TV Stations would sign off for the night or tech maintenance. High Flight is a salute to the Air Force. We should bring it back to TV and Radio for generations to come, if it's God's Will. Thank those who have served in the Armed Forces.
The "High Flight" poem gives me goose bumps every time I listen to it. If I were a high school English teacher, I would include that piece as part of the curriculum when English classes tackle poetry.
Probably the best analog sign off out of any station in the country. Grew up watching this station whenever I would go back and see my relatives. Leave it to KDKA to do something like this.
For all those years that Bill Burns signed off with Good Night., Good Luck and Good News tomorrow..... how nice of KDKA of end the final seconds of analog with those famous words. Sure do miss Bill and Patti.
It's been a long time since I've watched the 'High Flight' sign-off when TV stations closed down for the night at 2 or 3 am. Sounds corny, but I also miss the national anthem that also played at the end of the broadcast day. Also miss Pittsburgh, which I haven't seen since leaving in '86 - no place like it. Thanks for the vid.
If I have my history right, KDKA was the first ever radio station in the history of America to go on the air with regular broadcasting, and then switch over to TV later with ever one else. What a moment this must have been if I have my history right.
You're partially correct. WDTV was a DuMont owned and operated station. When DuMont had no choice but to sell it, Westinghouse (which owned KDKA-AM) changed the call letters. There is still some debate if KDKA-AM was the first regularly programmed station, but it is generally regarded as such.
It's cool how this track goes back in time - the "faux CBS2" era...Hometown Advantage...Eyewitness News...Evening Magazine...the 70s...further back...black and white...The World Tonight...and whoa...WDTV? One of the best. Big, big applause to KDKA-TV.
@kenbob331 Absolutely. I thought WLWT had one of the best, but this one blows it straight out of the water. NTSC brought into our homes the joys of man walking on the moon, and the fall of the Soviet Union, sorrows such as the Challenger disaster, and even the depths of human cruelty immortalized in the JFK assassination or the 9/11 attacks. It deserved far better than a party over its demise, a shot news blurb, or the unceremonious dumping it got in most locations. Kudos to KDKA. Pure class.
When I was in a nursing home in South Vienna (which used to be a hotel), I watched it happen on WHIO-TV Channel 7. It took a delay of only a few seconds before it went to nothing but static for a split-second and then back to regular meaning the switchover was complete.
Actually, a bit sad watching this. Its a part of our past that's gone forever. It recalls the days when you had on TV in the house. The whole family would gather and watch the same thing together. Classy montage KDKA.
It's basically the stations' analog feed looking back at its history as it slowly, yet peacefully, dies. That's why It made me sad, it reminds me of an old person doing the same.
At least KDKA used two of the actual test patterns they had over their long history (including one as WDTV-3/DuMont). On the other hand, WCBS-TV in New York, for their analogue sign-off, had an "imitation" test pattern before the analogue transmitter was deactivated.
That was nice of KD with this. Most people who watched TV 2 never seen this High Flight video, because KD was 24/7 since the mid 80s. KD's signoff began with 2009 and ended with the TP of WDTV from 1/11/49 (1st day of broadcasting.) It was nice of KD to sign off like that, even though I did not see it live!
I spent the last couple of days watching hours worth of analog sign offs from channels across the US and England. As a Pittsburgh native, I may be slightly biased, but KDKA definitely had one of, if not the best, sign off of any of the ones I watched. I vaguely remember all of the hullabaloo around the switch to digital TV considering I was 12 in 2009, but watching stuff like this is interesting to me since this was a huge milestone in technology that happened in my lifetime.
I went to college at West Virginia University, about 70 miles South of Pittsburgh. KDKA was our “local” CBS channel. KDKA’s original call letter were WDTV. Ironically the call letters of WDTV is now being used by new local CBS station in Clarksburg/Morgantown - WDTV - channel 5.
I loved how they used the DuMont test pattern at the end. That test pattern was probably the first thing that was broadcast from that local station as well. Quite poetic.
KDKA went out in the strongest way ever with the Penguins winning the Stanley Cup earlier that night (Yes the game did air on WPXI, the NBC affiliate in Pittsburgh) But still what a way to go out.
Thanks so much for uploading this! This montage was wonderful. KDKA did a great job. Not sure if you noticed, but WTAE and WPXI just went straight to snow at midnight and didn't acknowledge the transition at all!
This channel probably aired ‘I know where you live BBEEEYYOOOTTCCHH!’ in the channel like some other analogue feeds did, but since this one had the later shut down feed, the signal wouldn’t have immediately cut out after that line. Source: This is a CBS feed. Edit: I mispelled the word ‘shut’ as the S word (shit). Yeah…
Fun fact: the shot at 6:29 of the Pens lifting the Stanley Cup on the ice would have been 1991 against the the Minnesota North Stars. You can see people wearing North Star jerseys in the stands. Immediately after in the locker room was 1992 when the Pens won against Chicago; if you pause you will see Jaromir Jagr wearing a “Back To Back Stanley Cup Champions shirt.
From watching longtime Group W/CBS Corporation sister (and former NBC affiliate) KYW, they reached back into their past as well with the test pattern used when they first signed on many years ago.
5:28 National Anthem of USA plays as the moments going back in time to where KDKA Channel 2 (formely WDTV Pittsburgh) was introduced before shutting down analog.
For the record (see previous comment): KDKA (AM/FM/TV) is one of three K calls east of the Mississippi, and they're all in Pennsylvania -- the other two are KQV Pittsburgh (AM) and KYW Philadelphia (AM/TV).
Good grief! even in 2007 people were talking about the switch to digital television, I still remember, and of course all throughout 2008, these messages were airing frequently during commercial breaks.
Also note, around point 6:58 (+11:58:53:00), a young Vic Miles, years before he became a reporter and weekend anchor at WCBS-TV in New York. Interesting to see the 1950's KD' test pattern. Did they have other designs besides that and the 1949 WDTV TP? (Such as what was used by KYW in Philly after the late 1960's.)
@Polybun Probably, though, most of the times the guys in New York and LA have to back off just a little bit. Aside, I grew up watching TV2 in Farrell, PA with a good antenna...this is a great send-off. Though they DO need to bring back the late night movies instead of the paid commercials, I missed those.
Actually WDTV (ch. 2 then) was the #1 station in the Pittsburgh market (FCC could allocate only just another station for several years into the 1950's), so it was an important part of local BRODCAST HISTORY there. This station had the highest DuMont share of any US market, even above WABD (WNYW Fox5) in NYC, which was their flagship station, which made it DuMont's MOST IMPORTANT STATION.
I think it was pretty dumb that it was mandated to turn off the signals. They should have it set that channels could decide when they want to shut it down. “Because it’s obsolete” is a dumb excuse because it could be useful in some cases. The switchover pretty much left millions of CRT TVs as waste. If it were up to me, I’d keep it mandatory to have analog broadcasting around.
The REAL reason was the US Government already $old before 6/2009 most of the bandwidth of those frequencies to TELCO's for services like T-Mobile's 700mHz bands, which were part of the TV broadcast spectrum back then. There was the FINANCIAL NEED to vacate those frequencies as soon as possible, unlike today's slow conversion from ATSC 1.0* to 3.0, which will probably take into the 2030's to complete (no hurry there). * the one that replaced most NTSC analog signals in 2009
Unlike KD-TV, KY-TV (as WPTZ) was the 3rd licensed commercial TV station (1st non-O&O affiliate, but they're now a network O&O) by the FCC and the last one before US would be involved in WWII. So far only 2 other stations were licensed during the war.
KDKA, finally, a "K" station east of the Mississippi River, just like WFAA in Dallas, or WOAI in San Antonio, "W" stations west of the Mississippi River.
There's ANOTHER FAMOUS ONE in PA... CBS' KYW (3.1) in Philadelphia, also grandfathered from the old radio station call sign. And I do believe PA has another K station as well...
Why does KDKA and KYW have their call letters start with a "K" when all of the other TV stations east of the Mississippi River have their call letter start with a "W"?
I believe it was "grandfathering" (the station asking the FCC and getting the permit to keep the call signs from an older radio station that originated in the West) for all 3 cases in PA. Other cases in states like TX were closer to the Mississippi River and could "get away with it"...
@@zyber9 KDKAs' original call letters were WDTV, which were assigned to a CBS channel in Clarksburg/Morrgantown, WV which is located 70 miles South of Pittsburgh
7 years afterwards the Pittsburgh Penguins won another Stanley Cup championship, and followed that up the next year with yet another championship. Will it be three in a row this season (2017-18 season)?
15 years… Out of all the CBS O&Os in America.. I’m glad the one in my birth city managed to send analog tv off the best way possible. For the other stations (besides KYW), they barely did anything special like this.
Aw, you didn't finish Nurse Jackie promo before the epic analog TV shutdown. At least, the lovely High Flight short film from the 70s will showed one last time in analog. I wish it'll showed it just before cinema opening to Top Gun: Maverick. This version, a mellow out adult pop version of Star Spangled Banner is gorgeous and bittersweet
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This was the proper way to say goodbye to an era that will be fondly remembered. Other stations did news broadcasts, some just did nothing. KDKA should be commended for doing their goodbye to analog the right way. Classy video.
gladfan1989 KDKA’s 100th birthday is just around the corner
@Jared DiCarlo - WRGB, Oldest (as Experimental) TV station in the World (1928), license # 4 by the FCC and oldest call sign letters in US TV (since 1942).
Of the 5 oldest US TV licenses, the last 2 (WRGB and WNYW) didn't did NOTHING AT ALL for the ANALOG FAREWELL and # 3 (KYW) only "dusted off" their old Experimental Philco id.
But where is the analog sign off message
As we bid farewell to David Letterman's late night show this week, we remember when Dave's show was cut off by the analog shutdown, of which KDKA's final analog shutdown is one of the finest to ever occur.
marie Hiam, yes. The end of analog, brought to you by "the end of traditional late-night".
Class acts, through and through...
:) good vibes
Add the fact that this was the night that Sidney Crosby lifted Lord Stanley for the 1st time...
Before TV was on 24 hours a day, KDKA used to sign off with the video of the pilot and jet with the voiceover of the poem High Flight.
This video brought back a memory I didn't know I had.
They've been 24 hours since the 50s. They would air this and similar segments in the late/early hours as filler.
What happened during this transmission? The following in Pittsburgh, PA:
1. David Letterman makes a joke about the DTV transition (he doesn't even know what it means.)
2. Comcast sent you a message that they can help the elderly get ready for DTV.
3. David Letterman makes his top 10 questions sent to congress via phone (my favourite was the one about its relation to the swine flu.)
4. Promo for Nurse Jackie
5. High Flight
6. KDKA goes back in time during the SSB
7. Static; KDKA goes nightlight.
Or you could just watch the video.
My favorite was the exploiting tv one
10. If I don't switch over, is my TEEVEE gonna 'Splode?
No. It won't.
That was Comcast's way of saying switch to digital like yesterday.
I really & truly love the mellowed-out rendition of The Star-Spangled Banner. I also love the part that Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania's very own KDKA-TV Channel Two went back in time to say the very least. Thanks for the memories! Bye now!
Altough then it transitions to the dtv nightlight loop
At 11:59:23 you hear Bill Burns' famous sign off "Good night, good luck and good news tomorrow" I had a tear in my eye...nicely done! what a way to go out...
Nice to see the _High Flight_ poem being recited before KDKA shut down its analog transmissions.
And then it shows it's historical moments with the USA national anthem.
This one is better than wlwt-tv channel 5 cintinati (an nbc afiliate) and btq-tv channel 7 (a channel 7 australia afiliate)
I grew up in the ‘Burgh but had probably never stayed up late enough in my youth to see the High Flight segment. I assume this was from the 70’s, or at least pre-1986, as it contained the two lines popularized by President Reagan following the Challenger disaster: “…slipped the surly bonds of Earth…and touched the face of God.”
Just arrived here from TV Tropes! This was brilliant and it must have definitely made some people shed a tear! This is a brilliant goodbye to their analog transmission!
same. this is beautiful
Same. I wish more stations actually made people emotional like this.
That was the "coolist" analog sign off I have seen of all the TV Stations who have posted their analog sign offs in 2009. I remember High Flight very well when TV Stations would sign off for the night or tech maintenance. High Flight is a salute to the Air Force. We should bring it back to TV and Radio for generations to come, if it's God's Will. Thank those who have served in the Armed Forces.
You'd think they'd listen by now.
The "High Flight" poem gives me goose bumps every time I listen to it. If I were a high school English teacher, I would include that piece as part of the curriculum when English classes tackle poetry.
no we shouldn't bring it back
@@ChristopherSobieniak ew.
@@sillygoose635 😤😤😤HOW DARE YOU😤😤😤
Probably the best analog sign off out of any station in the country. Grew up watching this station whenever I would go back and see my relatives. Leave it to KDKA to do something like this.
For all those years that Bill Burns signed off with Good Night., Good Luck and Good News tomorrow.....
how nice of KDKA of end the final seconds of analog with those famous words.
Sure do miss Bill and Patti.
They still air, but nit on analog
@@ShadeATV "how nice of KDKA of end the final seconds of *analog* with those famous words." They said analog, pal.
@@somedude5422 sorry, that was months ago
Nice sign-off from KDKA.
It's been a long time since I've watched the 'High Flight' sign-off when TV stations closed down for the night at 2 or 3 am. Sounds corny, but I also miss the national anthem that also played at the end of the broadcast day. Also miss Pittsburgh, which I haven't seen since leaving in '86 - no place like it. Thanks for the vid.
If I have my history right, KDKA was the first ever radio station in the history of America to go on the air with regular broadcasting, and then switch over to TV later with ever one else. What a moment this must have been if I have my history right.
You're partially correct. WDTV was a DuMont owned and operated station. When DuMont had no choice but to sell it, Westinghouse (which owned KDKA-AM) changed the call letters. There is still some debate if KDKA-AM was the first regularly programmed station, but it is generally regarded as such.
It's cool how this track goes back in time - the "faux CBS2" era...Hometown Advantage...Eyewitness News...Evening Magazine...the 70s...further back...black and white...The World Tonight...and whoa...WDTV? One of the best. Big, big applause to KDKA-TV.
This was an absolutely beautiful sign off for KDKA and it has me in tears. 😭
@kenbob331 Absolutely. I thought WLWT had one of the best, but this one blows it straight out of the water.
NTSC brought into our homes the joys of man walking on the moon, and the fall of the Soviet Union, sorrows such as the Challenger disaster, and even the depths of human cruelty immortalized in the JFK assassination or the 9/11 attacks.
It deserved far better than a party over its demise, a shot news blurb, or the unceremonious dumping it got in most locations. Kudos to KDKA. Pure class.
When I was in a nursing home in South Vienna (which used to be a hotel), I watched it happen on WHIO-TV Channel 7. It took a delay of only a few seconds before it went to nothing but static for a split-second and then back to regular meaning the switchover was complete.
Actually, a bit sad watching this. Its a part of our past that's gone forever. It recalls the days when you had on TV in the house. The whole family would gather and watch the same thing together. Classy montage KDKA.
The timeline makes me sad for some reason.
It's basically the stations' analog feed looking back at its history as it slowly, yet peacefully, dies. That's why It made me sad, it reminds me of an old person doing the same.
At least KDKA used two of the actual test patterns they had over their long history (including one as WDTV-3/DuMont). On the other hand, WCBS-TV in New York, for their analogue sign-off, had an "imitation" test pattern before the analogue transmitter was deactivated.
They didn't use the last one- the one with the Native American @12 O, clock
Did WCBS use a WCBW (the original call letters for what is now WCBS-TV) test pattern?
@@altfactorno, the video is up here now. They signed off with an old WCBS-TV ID.
That was nice of KD with this. Most people who watched TV 2 never seen this High Flight video, because KD was 24/7 since the mid 80s. KD's signoff began with 2009 and ended with the TP of WDTV from 1/11/49 (1st day of broadcasting.) It was nice of KD to sign off like that, even though I did not see it live!
24 hours since the 50s and WDTV's Swing Shift Theater
I spent the last couple of days watching hours worth of analog sign offs from channels across the US and England. As a Pittsburgh native, I may be slightly biased, but KDKA definitely had one of, if not the best, sign off of any of the ones I watched. I vaguely remember all of the hullabaloo around the switch to digital TV considering I was 12 in 2009, but watching stuff like this is interesting to me since this was a huge milestone in technology that happened in my lifetime.
I went to college at West Virginia University, about 70 miles South of Pittsburgh. KDKA was our “local” CBS channel. KDKA’s original call letter were WDTV. Ironically the call letters of WDTV is now being used by new local CBS station in Clarksburg/Morgantown - WDTV - channel 5.
I loved how they used the DuMont test pattern at the end. That test pattern was probably the first thing that was broadcast from that local station as well. Quite poetic.
Very classy of KDKA to do that. And very cool to prominently display their first affiliation as a DuMont O&O.
This genuinely made me tear up. One of the most beautiful analog sign-offs ever
Surprisingly touching sendoff...
KDKA went out in the strongest way ever with the Penguins winning the Stanley Cup earlier that night (Yes the game did air on WPXI, the NBC affiliate in Pittsburgh) But still what a way to go out.
Thanks so much for uploading this! This montage was wonderful. KDKA did a great job. Not sure if you noticed, but WTAE and WPXI just went straight to snow at midnight and didn't acknowledge the transition at all!
IT'S BEEN ALMOST 8 YEARS, AND CONGRESS IS STILL NOT WORKING ON THE ECONOMY.
11years ago almost and still no progress
I'm angry that it is 2020 and they aren't working on the economy!
Covid finally made them work on the economy 👏
@@abbycollins it's a joke
@@Madden_08 I was replying to the main comment, sorry about that
This channel probably aired ‘I know where you live BBEEEYYOOOTTCCHH!’ in the channel like some other analogue feeds did, but since this one had the later shut down feed, the signal wouldn’t have immediately cut out after that line.
Source: This is a CBS feed.
Edit: I mispelled the word ‘shut’ as the S word (shit). Yeah…
Fun fact: the shot at 6:29 of the Pens lifting the Stanley Cup on the ice would have been 1991 against the the Minnesota North Stars. You can see people wearing North Star jerseys in the stands.
Immediately after in the locker room was 1992 when the Pens won against Chicago; if you pause you will see Jaromir Jagr wearing a “Back To Back Stanley Cup Champions shirt.
And funnily enough, earlier the same day the analog shutoff happened (June 12th 2009) the Pens brought home the cup against Detroit.
So technically speaking it was the best😅
Nice!
This was very classy.
I wish that more stations paid homage to their roots like that.
From watching longtime Group W/CBS Corporation sister (and former NBC affiliate) KYW, they reached back into their past as well with the test pattern used when they first signed on many years ago.
5:28 National Anthem of USA plays as the moments going back in time to where KDKA Channel 2 (formely WDTV Pittsburgh) was introduced before shutting down analog.
For the record (see previous comment): KDKA (AM/FM/TV) is one of three K calls east of the Mississippi, and they're all in Pennsylvania -- the other two are KQV Pittsburgh (AM) and KYW Philadelphia (AM/TV).
Good grief! even in 2007 people were talking about the switch to digital television, I still remember, and of course all throughout 2008, these messages were airing frequently during commercial breaks.
Seeing (Marie.Torre.) & (Bill.Curry.) take me back to my early teens,
I can even remember the show host together called "The Better Half."
I was looking for one of these analog from Pittsburg. Thank you so much for uploading this.
Also note, around point 6:58 (+11:58:53:00), a young Vic Miles, years before he became a reporter and weekend anchor at WCBS-TV in New York.
Interesting to see the 1950's KD' test pattern. Did they have other designs besides that and the 1949 WDTV TP? (Such as what was used by KYW in Philly after the late 1960's.)
Wow that was beautiful. Leave it to KDKA to do something classy like that for the digital transition.
Same night as the Penguins 3rd Stanley Cup :)
Did the penguins win?
@@abbycollins On one comment further below, they did win!
That anthem montage was definitely a standout.
really cool vid...the dumont tv network is a long forgotten but important piece of tv history
The highest quality version of the 1970s High Flight film.
KDKA! Wow! What a callsign! And this day they transition over to DVT. A Hugh moment is broadcasting history!
You ment to say "A huge moment in brodcasting history
I live in pittsburgh and remember pulling out an old portable tv to watch this
@Polybun Probably, though, most of the times the guys in New York and LA have to back off just a little bit. Aside, I grew up watching TV2 in Farrell, PA with a good antenna...this is a great send-off. Though they DO need to bring back the late night movies instead of the paid commercials, I missed those.
If you missed any portion of it please stand by
The same night Analog died in Pittsburgh, the Penguins won the Stanley Cup :)
They even remember Dumont!
Actually WDTV (ch. 2 then) was the #1 station in the Pittsburgh market (FCC could allocate only just another station for several years into the 1950's), so it was an important part of local BRODCAST HISTORY there.
This station had the highest DuMont share of any US market, even above WABD (WNYW Fox5) in NYC, which was their flagship station, which made it DuMont's MOST IMPORTANT STATION.
They cut it pretty close with the deadline lol. 4ish seconds.
is it just me or did kdka always ghost and have stange static compared to other channels???? this made me sad
I think it was pretty dumb that it was mandated to turn off the signals. They should have it set that channels could decide when they want to shut it down. “Because it’s obsolete” is a dumb excuse because it could be useful in some cases. The switchover pretty much left millions of CRT TVs as waste. If it were up to me, I’d keep it mandatory to have analog broadcasting around.
The REAL reason was the US Government already $old before 6/2009 most of the bandwidth of those frequencies to TELCO's for services like T-Mobile's 700mHz bands, which were part of the TV broadcast spectrum back then. There was the FINANCIAL NEED to vacate those frequencies as soon as possible, unlike today's slow conversion from ATSC 1.0* to 3.0, which will probably take into the 2030's to complete (no hurry there).
* the one that replaced most NTSC analog signals in 2009
@@syxepop I mean, I guess that makes sense.
I'm so proud to be a Pittsburgher.
when i saw "getting help for vietnam" i got chills
KDKA-AM 1020 is more interesting to discuss than this analog to digital TV stuff. KDKA Radio has a history.
Yes!
I love the national anthem, so majestic. Where can i find a copy??
You're not the only one. I thought it was Phil Driscoll, but I was wrong. Anyone at CBS Pittsburgh can answer?
I would have cried.
It is the 10th anniversary of this today.
Very well done!! Thanks..
Just uploaded on of our local WPTV showing how they converted..
Now that my friends is a classy operation!
6:46 6:50 The Steelers won Super Bowl X and Super Bowl XIV on KDKA-TV.
This made me cry... =(
Me, too. Sadly speaking of course.
Letterman is a genius. It is totally ironic that they did this smack in the middle of a recession. nobody else pointed this out.
Originally it was supposed to happen by 2007, but they delayed it, but the us should have delayed it again
Very touching end!
I really love this version of SSB.
Has it been 15 years.
Probably my favorite sign off!
@compwiz878 There's a KYW in Philadelphia on channel 3 i believe. it's a CBS affiliate also.
Unlike KD-TV, KY-TV (as WPTZ) was the 3rd licensed commercial TV station (1st non-O&O affiliate, but they're now a network O&O) by the FCC and the last one before US would be involved in WWII. So far only 2 other stations were licensed during the war.
Fact: KYW was a former call sign from Cleveland, Ohio
I love how they did the National Anthem!
For the people who asked Number 10: No, your TV is not going to explode
I never saw this channel, but I understand it's digital!!!
I thank about June 12 2009 of end analog tv KDKA Pittsburgh
Well done, KDKA. Well done.
KDKA, finally, a "K" station east of the Mississippi River, just like WFAA in Dallas, or WOAI in San Antonio, "W" stations west of the Mississippi River.
There's ANOTHER FAMOUS ONE in PA... CBS' KYW (3.1) in Philadelphia, also grandfathered from the old radio station call sign. And I do believe PA has another K station as well...
Why does KDKA and KYW have their call letters start with a "K" when all of the other TV stations east of the Mississippi River have their call letter start with a "W"?
I believe it was "grandfathering" (the station asking the FCC and getting the permit to keep the call signs from an older radio station that originated in the West) for all 3 cases in PA. Other cases in states like TX were closer to the Mississippi River and could "get away with it"...
This is really sad indeed.
@@zyber9 KDKAs' original call letters were WDTV, which were assigned to a CBS channel in Clarksburg/Morrgantown, WV which is located 70 miles South of Pittsburgh
yeah, when WOWT switched over to the digital format, they played America the beautiful.
@Fragglevision "Nurse Jackie" on Showtime.
5:51 Would that Super Bowl parade have been for XL or XLIII?
Also The Chief receiving the Lombardi trophy at 6:50, I think this was SB IX?
David Letterman Is Talking About The End Of Analog TV?
Pretty scummy for comcast to get people to sign up for their service by preying on people that did not know what to do.
Do You Know Who Composed This Version Of The Star Spangled Banner Heard On KDKA's Final Analog Sign Off ?
11:59:55(the black bar, tapping/clicking will result in a replay button to appear) The nightlight for Analog appears.
7 years afterwards the Pittsburgh Penguins won another Stanley Cup championship, and followed that up the next year with yet another championship. Will it be three in a row this season (2017-18 season)?
I think he told KDKA what to do.
there version of SSB is short because to save time for the focking switch
Is that actor Victor Matore, in that air force jet?
As for digital tv viewers it’s back to The Late Show
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Like in wDTV (DuMont's Pittsburgh station and the first version of what today is simply "KD")?
From I think from 12th Anniversary from June 12 2009
15 years… Out of all the CBS O&Os in America.. I’m glad the one in my birth city managed to send analog tv off the best way possible. For the other stations (besides KYW), they barely did anything special like this.
help, i tried to digital switch my waffle maker but all it does is scream. what should i do?
Aw, you didn't finish Nurse Jackie promo before the epic analog TV shutdown. At least, the lovely High Flight short film from the 70s will showed one last time in analog. I wish it'll showed it just before cinema opening to Top Gun: Maverick. This version, a mellow out adult pop version of Star Spangled Banner is gorgeous and bittersweet
2 miles?? That’s why the picture was so clear.
Perfection.
As the repeat momentarily in Spanish, followed again in English
Honestly maybe just coincidence name,.? Between Mr. Krid and Mr. Kristiansand.
Well done.
8 years ago today
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