Last Day of Analog TV Broadcasting - June 12, 2009
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- čas přidán 12. 06. 2009
- 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
More 70a and 80s
What's late 2000 about this? Looks like 1977
That room looks like mid-80's.
@@Hehehehhehehehehehehehhe78 Yea the wooden shelf/the shelf that holds the tv is definitely 1970s
The _video_ is gorgeous... The whole thing.
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
So bizarre that you was over 13 years ago now......
back then people legitimately thought the future was bright
Ppl still get excited lmao?
@@RobboElRobbo during the, uh, Great Recession?
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
i remeber it cause my mom was really pissed off the next morning because there was no tv signal
I would've react the same way Your Mother did.
Your mom in 2009?
🎵When you go to sleep at night, when you wake up in the morning, and realize that Analogue TV doesn’t have signal🎵
Terry Denault I'm genuinely confused by your comment. Micheal Jackson didn't die in 2013.
Terry Denault he died in 2009
This isn't a video. its documented history!
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.
almost 10 years lol
And now its 2020
I know sure as hell i was happier back in 2009. Then life hit me hard.
Moriarty Vivaldi yeah that’s how it works, we all get shot with misery eventually
2020 now bro
This is one of the coolest videos I have ever come across on the internet.
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Bro it's definitely the first person to say "I'm going to put this on CZcams." Y'all were ahead of your time
No...
You’re far off
@@Imxel21by a few years even lmfao, do ppl really not know when yt started? Is that rare knowledge now?
Dude, people were saying that all the fucking time as early as 2006. I was sixteen when CZcams came out and a year later, around the time Google acquired it, it was ALL OVER the place. 2009 was well into the CZcams era.
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..
Holy shit I never thought about it like that
while i wouldn't jump the gun just yet, more and more AM radio stations shut down all the time...
I want to go back to 2009 for a week. the technology, the food, the architecture, style, i want to relive it
@@NewCoke-PepsiMan84 Interesting that you extend it to 2016. A lot of people would have said it ended well before that, for various reasons.
I'd just be a 2 year old 😂
what the hell do you mean by "the food"??
2009 was boring lol
@@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
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.
It’s been 14 years, hope y’all are doing good, thanks for this time capsule
thank god they took that bitch off the air lol
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.
Y2K?
@@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
@@miguelmontero6130 why?
@@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
@@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 2023 and I spent last night drinking whiskey and watching 1941 on my 6” CRT VHS compact with my girlfriend. The nostalgia is real.
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.
Oh, I forgot you could still watch shows on analogue, I'm a facepalm
@@jeromeglick30 years? That’s incredible, see that’s how you know analog actually has a better use. Long live analog
@@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.
@@jeromeglick they don't make them like they used to
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...
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.
But I got scared of that sudden WB sound 🤣🤣🤣
today's the 10th anniversary! June 12, 2019!
2 days ago was the 11th
@@sierra991 Today Is The 12th!
I even saw this on the 12th did not even know analog stopped on June 12th 🤣
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It'll be 15 in 2 months
Such a wholesome video. Man, time flies.
I'm glad someone documented this! This truly was a life altering experience.
I love their enthusiasm
God I need people in my life with these dudes vibes
You wont find them if you keep your face down into your phone all day.
@@kurisu3000 wow then what are you doing right now genius?
@@kurisu3000hmm I wonder what ur doing rn
2:56 It's All Gone
RIP Analog Television USA
1923-2009
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@@boostedsaleen6146 笑
2021*
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...
Never thought I'd ever see anyone get this excited for their tv cutting off.
This is crazy I was 18 when this happened! I’m 32 now, man times have changed extremely since then. -Chris
I found this on reddit and cried tears of joy happy. I hope u guys are doing good in 2021
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)
idk there’s something about this video that’s so charming. pure joy and excitement
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!
streaming sucks compared to cable xd
@@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.*
@@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
This was filmed last 2009? The guy with long hair seemed cool. Did he keep growing it? How does he look like now? XD
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
Please never delete this.
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
It just did
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. 😆
It most certainly did for me
You can tell that these guys had a lot of fun filming this CZcams video of this moment in history.
1970s-mid 2010s vibe is unmatched
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"
@@Araujo-fe3phdidnt know the world instantly became modern and boring at the start of 2010
@@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
@@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.
@@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 CZcams and music applications began to become popular.
I love this video, seeing how excited you are over this just fills me with joy for some reason
I can see the excitement y'all had and I too miss analog tv. Hope y'all are doing good in 2021
R.I.P Analog TV
????-2009
it started at 1888.
Daniel Ballis it started in 1928
R.I.P Analog Television
1948-2009
Early 1920s
Where TF is everyone else getting their info?
It started in the 1920's
And that concludes our broadcast day.
Okay but for real this living room layout is kickass
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.
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
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That wood panel CRT setup is godly, also the long haired guys fashion sense.
i still remember my old really small gray analog tv. May you rest in peace.
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❗
Holy shit, I LOVE this video. Love the house layout. This reminds me A ton of monumental things in my history. Ok, mildly monumental.
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.
2021 and times have changed. Tvs stay on until you turn them off
It was recently that they all shut off some where broadcasts until July 13 2021
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.
this vidro radiates pure bro energy and i love it
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.
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
Glad to see they got as excited as I was that day. This really cheered me up.
1:04 the moment where both got too happy because of the final analog.
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.
On a side note that imbedded RPTV with all that oak looks super cool
It’s 2023 and I’ve never seen a couple of guys happier over a analog tv shutdown in my life even till today
This is part of television history
I love this! hope you guys are well in 2023
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
Ah the death of an era. God bless Analog. She lives on with the pirates.
I hope the FCC is free to use any analog TV station to start up their own stations which is a great idea.
this is so wholesome...i hope you guys are doing well today
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.
Says the person commenting on a platform that has millions of channels.
This video perfectly captures how much better/happier the world was back then
the fact that I graduated high school the year before this makes me feel old and I know I'm not even old
Love there energy last thing on my tv was a ad or a wierd show this was 2017
This is the most innocent thing teenage boys could be doing late at night.
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.
And TV in Indonesia still in analog 11 years later
@@jolonidhi_bk is the analog tv in Indonesia switched off now
@@Cheeseburgerandfries2006 not completely yet. it's in simulcast mode now so I can choose to watch the analog or the digital one
I gave up television five years ago but I still miss the days of just plugging a television into a wall, hooking up an antenna and you were set.
I love how excited they are!
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 !
Super awesome to document this, ya'll are funny as hell. 😆
I wish I could go back in time to 2009...
Me 2
Love How You Were Happy In This Whole Video.
Found you ;)
Thanks for this historic footage.
Lol these dudes are adorably nerdy. Hope you're both still passionate about this stuff today
These guys are like living versions of Wayne’s World lol
Brilliant to think to record this!
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.
Your friend was really rockin’ the style then! 🤘🏼
1928-2009
R.I.P you will be somewhat missed
Glad i saw this level of excitement
in just three minutes and twenty-four seconds, these guys have proved themselves to be the coolest guys ever
i love how lots of people were pissed and they were happy they had to pay 60 dollars for a box
They had been announcing it for years at that point and the government provided a coupon for digital converter boxes.
That reaction was beautifully.
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. 😂😂😂
Reminds me of what friends were like. In light of the USA's loneliness crisis, friends are now remembered as a historical phenomenon.
I would have been excited with you guys!
I missed the days of analog TV stations. We need to bring analog TV back to its roots the way it used to be.
The fact that Michael Jackson was still alive when you posted this blows my mind.
Love the tv and the surroundings
Bros are so hyped up they take photos of each other next to the TV. Legends.
So cool that you recorded this for posterity
I remember this day and I totally get the vibe here. It was like new year's eve lol
2009 in Movies and TV was something else...
it's been 11 years already! damn!
cool Stuff! great history recorded moment!
This isn't a CZcams video... This...THIS...IS A TIME CAPSULE!!!
"Certain analog stations have been allowed to continue broadcasting and given a transition date of July 13, 2021." interesting thing I found in an article about it. Does that mean as of when I'm writing this, there are still analog broadcasts out there?
I've thought about looking into analogue TV broadcasting from like a HDMI signal, just so some of the old stuff I've been restoring can do something useful.
I love this, a lot.
I love this video