Last Day of Analog TV Broadcasting - June 12, 2009
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June 12, 2009 is a day that will be a timeless mark on the calendar for the Audio Visual nerds (like myself) of America. This was the last day the analog broadcast signal (standard antenna) was transmitted to homes across America. At midnight of June 13th, the analog broadcast age came to an end (RIP lol, think about it, over half a century of television was broadcasted like this) and now all TV signals are broadcasted digitally using a converter box or DTV set. This video is of my friend Steve Holy and me in front of one of my TVs that I didn't hitch up with a converter box, for the sole purpose of filming when the original broadcast signal went black! To the average person this may be irrelevant, but for me it was pretty damn epic! To think, my generation can grow old and someday say "When I was a kid, TV shows were broadcasted with antennas, not digitally"
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Absolutely gorgeous late 2000’s room aesthetic
@Hehehehhehehehehehehehhe78
4 жыл бұрын
More 70a and 80s
@prebenjaeger
3 жыл бұрын
What's late 2000 about this? Looks like 1977
@marcoparada6652
3 жыл бұрын
That room looks like mid-80's.
@colanderstudios9682
2 жыл бұрын
@@Hehehehhehehehehehehehhe78 Yea the wooden shelf/the shelf that holds the tv is definitely 1970s
@IDontNeedYourShittyHandle
2 жыл бұрын
The _video_ is gorgeous... The whole thing.
i remeber it cause my mom was really pissed off the next morning because there was no tv signal
@sethhorst6158
6 жыл бұрын
I would've react the same way Your Mother did.
@nikketaripe4534
4 жыл бұрын
Your mom in 2009?
@milesnetwork69
4 жыл бұрын
🎵When you go to sleep at night, when you wake up in the morning, and realize that Analogue TV doesn’t have signal🎵
@bex--
4 жыл бұрын
Terry Denault I'm genuinely confused by your comment. Micheal Jackson didn't die in 2013.
@topfloorb0ss
4 жыл бұрын
Terry Denault he died in 2009
Something about the aura of this video... the palpable excitement, even the room itself fills me with nostalgia. It’s a rarity to find this kind of energy nowadays. Hope you guys are well in 2021
@JasonP6339
Жыл бұрын
So bizarre that you was over 13 years ago now......
@RobboElRobbo
Жыл бұрын
back then people legitimately thought the future was bright
@kreuner11
9 ай бұрын
Ppl still get excited lmao?
@LizaFan
9 ай бұрын
@@RobboElRobbo during the, uh, Great Recession?
@S0meb0dy728
5 ай бұрын
People still get excited for things dumbass. Maybe if you had a less bleak outlook of everything and stopped looking at the past you’d be more happier
This isn't a video. its documented history!
@alexto2200
4 ай бұрын
It very legendary were they took a picture before the last channel got pull off from analog and got happy because they hate a show from CW
I love how excited you guys were in this video. Hopefully, you guys are happy in 2016.
@kngpru9684
5 жыл бұрын
almost 10 years lol
@jyeh3996
4 жыл бұрын
And now its 2020
@More_Row
4 жыл бұрын
I know sure as hell i was happier back in 2009. Then life hit me hard.
@teammemesupremetms
4 жыл бұрын
Moriarty Vivaldi yeah that’s how it works, we all get shot with misery eventually
@bluishred_1
4 жыл бұрын
2020 now bro
I want to go back to 2009 for a week. the technology, the food, the architecture, style, i want to relive it
@jeromeglick
10 ай бұрын
@NewCoke-PepsiMan84 Interesting that you extend it to 2016. A lot of people would have said it ended well before that, for various reasons.
@Savage.-_.Gamer1
8 ай бұрын
I'd just be a 2 year old 😂
@SahidBecdach
8 ай бұрын
what the hell do you mean by "the food"??
@Darkscenes-jp4ge
7 ай бұрын
2009 was boring lol
@Darkscenes-jp4ge
7 ай бұрын
@NewCoke-PepsiMan84 I'd say the Golden era of America was up to 1996 after 1996 America started to degrade but America is still doing much better than most other countries today
Bro it's definitely the first person to say "I'm going to put this on KZread." Y'all were ahead of your time
@samp.8099
7 ай бұрын
No...
@Imxel21
3 ай бұрын
You’re far off
@carvman217
2 ай бұрын
@@Imxel21by a few years even lmfao, do ppl really not know when yt started? Is that rare knowledge now?
@newq
2 ай бұрын
Dude, people were saying that all the fucking time as early as 2006. I was sixteen when KZread came out and a year later, around the time Google acquired it, it was ALL OVER the place. 2009 was well into the KZread era.
This is one of the coolest videos I have ever come across on the internet.
@QbitBot
Жыл бұрын
Beep
@ILoveWWEandBrianGriffin
6 ай бұрын
I agree
@TotallyLucasMenchions
2 ай бұрын
Beep
@green3monster174
2 ай бұрын
Beep
Dude my inner-nerd sense is off the charts right now lol this is so eerie like a time travel through the century, to think that signal has been on since the 1940’s and for it to go completely quiet across America is so fascinating. Think about it, every breaking news story, sports championships, weather reports, hit TV shows, through every decade with every era that signal broadcasted across our country. Seeing it go silent was like witnessing a time travel portal close! I remember the talk in the early months of ‘09 that “bunny ear” TV’s would be going away, that everything’s going digital and whatnot. Truly a grossly underrated time for technology, closing that signal, that door that was open for our grandparents while we’re young. Only a matter of time before radio stations do the same..
@Wetbread88
2 жыл бұрын
Holy shit I never thought about it like that
@dguy0386
2 жыл бұрын
while i wouldn't jump the gun just yet, more and more AM radio stations shut down all the time...
It’s 2023 and I spent last night drinking whiskey and watching 1941 on my 6” CRT VHS compact with my girlfriend. The nostalgia is real.
@jeromeglick
10 ай бұрын
My parents still watch a CRT with a government-issued converter box and rooftop antenna. They got it repaired in 2006, and then in 2018 the picture started white-flashing. I took it to a repair shop, the technician resoldered the joints and said it should be good for another 30 years.
@º№™ºc™
5 ай бұрын
Oh, I forgot you could still watch shows on analogue, I'm a facepalm
@TheAdventuresOfJimiJaden
4 ай бұрын
@@jeromeglick30 years? That’s incredible, see that’s how you know analog actually has a better use. Long live analog
@jeromeglick
4 ай бұрын
@@TheAdventuresOfJimiJaden Yeah dude, all this crap they churn out that's only supposed to last like 5 years, then it goes in a landfill or gets burned up as toxic chemicals that pollute the air, or gets mined for copper by poor 3rd-world citizens. Bad for the Earth, just a way to keep people busy doing menial manufacturing work that won't stand the test of time. C'mon people, let's stop planned obsolescence for good and don't throw away stuff so fast.
@RedTroPc
4 ай бұрын
@@jeromeglick they don't make them like they used to
This is a cute video. I was actually sad to see analog go. When you didn't have perfect signal, you could still watch analog channels. It would just be a bit grainy. Now, with digital...if the signal isn't absolutely perfect, the show becomes literally unwatchable due to the audio and video pausing and cutting in and out every second.
I absolutely love this video, thank you for capturing this moment in history. A lot of people didn't understand at the time how big of a shift this meant in media. The end of the analog broadcast age. You were a rare breed at the time to see this as what it was, a huge milestone in technology. Congrats on 'being there' when it happened. I'll never forget all the old people who lost their shit when the switch happened, reminded me of the Y2K countdown.
@alex.g7317
8 ай бұрын
Y2K?
@miguelmontero6130
8 ай бұрын
@@alex.g7317So for context, people thought that the world was going to end when the clock struck midnight on January 1st, 2000 because they were afraid that computers were gonna fail
@alex.g7317
8 ай бұрын
@@miguelmontero6130 why?
@miguelmontero6130
8 ай бұрын
@@alex.g7317Years before 2000, the first two digits were removed from the year on the clocks of computers because it was thought that this would save memory as it was unnecessary info. Even after 1999 was over, people thought the system would read it as 1900 instead of 2000. NationSquid even did a video on the Y2K bug, so I’d recommend seeing that for more info
@gorb8
8 ай бұрын
@@alex.g7317because they thought whats the computer gonnado after 1999 as most of them didnt have a 21st century in them so it just reset back to 1900
It’s been 14 years, hope y’all are doing good, thanks for this time capsule
@oh_knee7173
7 ай бұрын
thank god they took that bitch off the air lol
@simplesimon8255
20 күн бұрын
Why do you hope they're doing good?
@milkseacher1
7 күн бұрын
@@simplesimon8255because they seem like innocent happy little souls that don’t deserve to go through pain and suffering. That’s why.
@simplesimon8255
7 күн бұрын
@@milkseacher1 how would you feel if they weren’t innocent and that they did go thru pain and suffering?
@milkseacher1
7 күн бұрын
@@simplesimon8255god would judge them for what they have done, so let’s leave it to him.
It's nice to see that the logo ident of Warner Bros. (1:00), the co-owner of CW consortium, appears immediately before switching the transmitter off.
@nithishkumardisnmusic6127
3 жыл бұрын
But I got scared of that sudden WB sound 🤣🤣🤣
God I need people in my life with these dudes vibes
@kurisu3000
4 ай бұрын
You wont find them if you keep your face down into your phone all day.
@misterflibble2931
4 ай бұрын
@@kurisu3000 wow then what are you doing right now genius?
@garfieldlazylasagna1234
2 ай бұрын
@@kurisu3000hmm I wonder what ur doing rn
These guys put tons more energy into WGN's analog send-off than the channel itself. Tribune should've had a 2-minute montage of their long-standing (since 1947) surviving archives with the late Lou Rawls singing their '80s jingle "We're a part of Chicago"* that viewers loved so much across the Caribbean Basin, where WGN was broadcasted on Cable TV at the time. * I understand WGN's YT channel has a video of Lou singing that jingle...
today's the 10th anniversary! June 12, 2019!
@sierra991
4 жыл бұрын
2 days ago was the 11th
@TSQNYEArchive673
3 жыл бұрын
@@sierra991 Today Is The 12th!
@evancoop1224
3 жыл бұрын
I even saw this on the 12th did not even know analog stopped on June 12th 🤣
@ifyouhadto
Жыл бұрын
13
@JosephShemelewski
3 ай бұрын
It'll be 15 in 2 months
Never thought I'd ever see anyone get this excited for their tv cutting off.
I'm glad someone documented this! This truly was a life altering experience.
Such a wholesome video. Man, time flies.
I love their enthusiasm
I remember this time. We had an old neighbor, long retired guy - House looked like a museum. Wood paneling, shit from the 1950s and 1960s all over his house. He had this old CRT TV in a cabinet. Thing must have been from the early 1970s at the latest. Many people were already moving over to flat screen TVs, but not our neighbor. One day he knocks on our door, he talked to my dad quite a bit and knew I was a techy nerdy type. He brings the digital box over and asks if we can come over and install it. Luckily, this crusty old TV had a single RCA input on it, so we were able to get him hooked up. We tied his roof antenna to this box and then plugged the box into the TV with an RCA cable we had at the house. I think he had to do audio out from the digital box to his stereo for audio...
Wow I was only 9 in 2009, and my parents switched to cable TV before this stuff started so I barely remember the DTV transition, but it was still a major change for television broadcasting. Of course, now we don't have cable anymore, we have streaming. But I'm certain, if I was old enough back then and was still the huge nerd I am today, I would have reacted the same way you two did when analog went off the air!
@crazytowerz3113
8 ай бұрын
streaming sucks compared to cable xd
@18436Melissa
4 ай бұрын
@@crazytowerz3113 Why do i see you everywhere... *Oh yeah by the way.. my parents experienced the analog shutdown on June 12th, 2009, Sad i wasn't there when it happened, Cause i started existing a year later after it happened.*
@vexohaitianbridgette8502
Ай бұрын
@@crazytowerz3113cable is worse bro paramount are doing these channels dirty, nickelodeon is just spongebob, the nick jr block is just paw patrol, and the nick at nite block is just friends
2:56 It's All Gone RIP Analog Television USA 1923-2009 Edit: Thanks For 69 Likes!
@boostedsaleen6146
Жыл бұрын
78😂
@ADeeSHUPA
Жыл бұрын
@@boostedsaleen6146 笑
@º№™ºc™
5 ай бұрын
2021*
I found this on reddit and cried tears of joy happy. I hope u guys are doing good in 2021
Please never delete this.
This is crazy I was 18 when this happened! I’m 32 now, man times have changed extremely since then. -Chris
I feel like this is going to go viral someday like the DVD screen saver video did Edit: it’ll show up in everyone’s recommended someday
@raghavrao5221
4 жыл бұрын
It just did
@kornseph
2 жыл бұрын
Just popped for me in 22' I remember fighting with my dad over wanting to get rid of all of the old tvs because they didn't work anymore. Little did he know I'd still be hoarding nice crts to this day for Melee tourneys. 😆
@ILoveWWEandBrianGriffin
6 ай бұрын
It most certainly did for me
1970s-mid 2010s vibe is unmatched
@Araujo-fe3ph
Ай бұрын
No, not the 2010s, because from 2010 onwards, everything was modern, boring, and really good, until the 2000s (2000-2009), these were the last good times that we can really call "back in the day"
@MasterProgrammer423
Ай бұрын
@@Araujo-fe3phdidnt know the world instantly became modern and boring at the start of 2010
@Araujo-fe3ph
Ай бұрын
@@MasterProgrammer423 because from 2010 to now many of the really old things were only until the 2000s (2000-2009) both in technology and in customs, etc. then since the beginning of the 2010s things started to disappear for good and things became more modernized with popularization smartphone, smart TV, streaming and many other things
@MasterProgrammer423
Ай бұрын
@@Araujo-fe3ph i wouldnt say the world became modern since the start of 2010. Id say the late 2000’s. Analog tvs started to shut down in mid 2009. The smartphone was made in 2007 and came with the app store in 2008. Social media really became popular before 2005. VHS tapes were stopped in 2006. Cable TV was relevant in the early 2010’s but died out shortly after. So the downfall really began in 2006 or 2007 onwards.
@Araujo-fe3ph
Ай бұрын
@@MasterProgrammer423 No, these things just appeared, but they weren't popular yet, they only became popular at the beginning of the 2010s, like smartphones, for example, and the last VHS were not in 2006, but in October 2008. There were many countries around the world where it was very common to watch analogue TV and few countries in which the analogue signal was turned off at the end of the 2000s because in the rest of the other countries most were turned off during the entire 2010s. Until the end of the 2000s, they still manufactured discmans even with the mp3 player and they only stopped manufacturing discmans at the beginning of the 2010s when they lost general popularity and KZread and music applications began to become popular.
this is so wholesome...i hope you guys are doing well today
idk there’s something about this video that’s so charming. pure joy and excitement
This was filmed last 2009? The guy with long hair seemed cool. Did he keep growing it? How does he look like now? XD
@rev.jimmywonko9615
4 жыл бұрын
I need an update. That hair should be epic by now. I know he was in a hurry to sign off but I need an update
R.I.P Analog TV ????-2009
@daisydonnelly7870
7 жыл бұрын
it started at 1888.
@wii3878
7 жыл бұрын
Daniel Ballis it started in 1928
@sethhorst6158
6 жыл бұрын
R.I.P Analog Television 1948-2009
@roastedlemon
4 жыл бұрын
Early 1920s Where TF is everyone else getting their info?
@willamscosta9449
3 жыл бұрын
It started in the 1920's
Good work! One small correction though: digital TV still uses antennas. If you don't have cable or satellite, you need to plug an antenna into your digital TV or your converter box to pick up the digital signal.
@jolonidhi_bk
3 жыл бұрын
And TV in Indonesia still in analog 11 years later
@Cheeseburgerandfries2006
2 жыл бұрын
@@jolonidhi_bk is the analog tv in Indonesia switched off now
@jolonidhi_bk
2 жыл бұрын
@@Cheeseburgerandfries2006 not completely yet. it's in simulcast mode now so I can choose to watch the analog or the digital one
You can tell that these guys had a lot of fun filming this KZread video of this moment in history.
Today, in Ireland, most tv boxes still use Interlaced scan instead of progressive. Which pisses me off because it’s not as high of a picture quality as 1080p, even when every analogue channel has been gone since 2012 (which might I add is actually quite strange)
I can see the excitement y'all had and I too miss analog tv. Hope y'all are doing good in 2021
Ah the death of an era. God bless Analog. She lives on with the pirates.
@Musicradio77Network
Ай бұрын
I hope the FCC is free to use any analog TV station to start up their own stations which is a great idea.
11 years later... This was great :-) Supposedly there are still some analog legacy transmissions going out. I have a set of rabbit ears, but I don't actually have a television in my house X^D
@gabrielabadulescu2387
3 жыл бұрын
1:02
I love this video, seeing how excited you are over this just fills me with joy for some reason
this vidro radiates pure bro energy and i love it
i still remember my old really small gray analog tv. May you rest in peace.
It had been about 10 whole years that analog television stopped for good. I remember we had TV before 2009 with analog networks. Geeze, nostalgia. Looking back at it now, the world has changed dramatically in digital smart TVs and smart phones. Time does fly and changes everything
Holy shit, I LOVE this video. Love the house layout. This reminds me A ton of monumental things in my history. Ok, mildly monumental.
2021 and times have changed. Tvs stay on until you turn them off
@aloe7002
2 жыл бұрын
It was recently that they all shut off some where broadcasts until July 13 2021
Okay but for real this living room layout is kickass
That wood panel CRT setup is godly, also the long haired guys fashion sense.
it looks so cool to see how excited y'all were for this! I turned 5 THE DAY before this happened and at that point we had cable already. But, i'm very interested in this sorta thing now so i think if I had a time machine this would be an interesting thing to see.
I remember working at Radio Shack and having to sell so many digital converter boxes so people could still use their antennas. It was a huge pain in the ass until they started incorporating them into tvs.
i was only 4 in 2009, few days before the analog cutoff my mom bought a digital antenna box so i didn’t witness the shutdown but somehow i was aware of what happened but didn’t fully comprehend to it
I've waited all the way til 2021 to cry😭. Nice friendship too👍👍👍👍👍You two should've done a daily or weekly series on any topic. Epic❗
Their are still a few analog stations left as of 2021 in the states that will have to switch by the end of July if I'm not mistaken. Nice old TV setup you have there, with the wood and the stairs and the carpet it looks like a perfect place to unwind after a long day.
In July 2011, analog television broadcasts ended throughout Japan. What was unique about this was that every station had to transit an information screen for the twelve hours between the end of regular programming on the analog signal at noon and the shutdown of the analog transmitters themselves at midnight on the day of the switchover which was July 24. This was done as a result of technical problems that occurred during a July 2010 test shutdown in northeast Ishikawa Prefecture. In the prefectures of Iwate, Miyagi, and Fukushima, the switchover was delayed because of these areas suffering severe damage in the March 2011 earthquake and its subsequent nuclear accidents, with the switchover finally taking place on March 31, 2012.
And that concludes our broadcast day.
One of the saddest days in world history. The end of three or four channels and the rise of a mind numbing amount of streaming and cable TV content.
@user-ik8vy1rg8f
Жыл бұрын
Says the person commenting on a platform that has millions of channels.
Love there energy last thing on my tv was a ad or a wierd show this was 2017
Glad to see they got as excited as I was that day. This really cheered me up.
On a side note that imbedded RPTV with all that oak looks super cool
This is part of television history
I wish I could go back in time to 2009...
@ritchienavarro156
3 жыл бұрын
Me 2
1:04 the moment where both got too happy because of the final analog.
I love this! hope you guys are well in 2023
Thanks for this historic footage.
the fact that I graduated high school the year before this makes me feel old and I know I'm not even old
Thank you oh so much for making a video about this I mean man it was so long ago when we use to be able the watch analog television for free !
I love how excited they are!
Brilliant to think to record this!
i love how lots of people were pissed and they were happy they had to pay 60 dollars for a box
@TheLordOfNothing
3 ай бұрын
They had been announcing it for years at that point and the government provided a coupon for digital converter boxes.
I missed the days of analog TV stations. We need to bring analog TV back to its roots the way it used to be.
Glad i saw this level of excitement
Love How You Were Happy In This Whole Video.
@DiscoverGuy
11 ай бұрын
Found you ;)
Super awesome to document this, ya'll are funny as hell. 😆
I just found this video and realized it’s the 15th anniversary of this video.
Looking back on the conversion, it was after that that I became familiar with a lot of old shows that had been originally aired before my time, like "The Outer Limits", "Peter Gunn", "Thriller", etc. Sure, there were stations that carried old shows during the analog age, but not with the selection, at least for those without cable, that one can find on the digital channels that featured MeTV, RetroTV, etc. I'll always miss that little dot that lingered in the middle of the screen as the set cooled down, but there is something to be said for having 4 or 5 sub-channels for each RF one.
That’s a cool looking setup even for 2009, having a tv in the wall
These guys are like living versions of Wayne’s World lol
Damn, nearly 15 years ago now. When this video was posted, it was right before I finished 8th Grade and moved to my new house and school on July 1, 2009.
I think this is one of my favorite videos on the site. Even though I wasn't around in 2009, it just feels like I've lived through this. Hope you guys are alright in 2024.
I love this video
Wow I remember being 12 years old doing this at a friend's house because my parents already converted to digital a few months before that. This brought back some memories. I honestly don't remember what show we were watching though. 😂😂😂
i remember when i was 9 and i was just watching nickalodian cos i grew up with nick channels and i was just watching spongebob square pants and then the screen became blank white in the middle of the credits and since i forgot that analog tv will die i almost freaked out and i screamed at my parents that a ghost was haunting it and then they said analog tv has gone forever now and ghosts dont exsist, i coudent watch tv for 10 days, at june 23rd 2009 i got a brand new, fresh out the oven ( you know what i mean bye that -_-) digital tv and i was so excited and i could watch nickalodian again, im 16 years old now and i am fine with it.
@daisydonnelly7870
7 жыл бұрын
why
@mgfusion9396
7 жыл бұрын
Nickelodeon is a cable channel, which was not affected by the 2009 Digital Television Transition.
@90sNath
6 жыл бұрын
MGFusion boof. Maybe she had Analog Cable. That exists. Those cable box's from I don't know 1997
@90sNath
6 жыл бұрын
MLGRevFuryA8 ANP136 BRCE KKTK APOE SATF TPNG UTTP umm dude. There is such a thing as Analog Cable TV which probably dosent exist anymore if that happened to her
@Windfarmer
6 жыл бұрын
Analog cable is still in wide use even today, it shouldn't have been affected then
Lol these dudes are adorably nerdy. Hope you're both still passionate about this stuff today
I love this, a lot.
This video perfectly captures how much better/happier the world was back then
AMAZING!!
Just realized that this video was recorded when Michael Jackson was still alive.
@mrandrossguy9871
3 ай бұрын
Watched that memorial on the Converter box 😅😢🤷♂️
I love this!
It’s 2023 and I’ve never seen a couple of guys happier over a analog tv shutdown in my life even till today
Love the tv and the surroundings
Perfect video
Your friend was really rockin’ the style then! 🤘🏼
That reaction was beautifully.
These guys are like Beavis and Butthead if they were intelligent. Still laughing and as excited, but actually know what they're talking about.
1928-2009 R.I.P you will be somewhat missed
Remember that time where we switched from Box TV’s to modern day Flat screen TV’s?
cool Stuff! great history recorded moment!
This is gotta be the most awesome thing I’ve seen. And it’s Friday
Amazing video
This is a really cool video
Bros are so hyped up they take photos of each other next to the TV. Legends.