[SBE] 4 more months? Slight, hopefully positive thread drift..

[Glenn Little WB4UIV]

I have discussed this with our NEWS department.
We think that the GM should be the last to shut off the transmitter.
We will have a Photog to document the event.
NEWS is considering a live break-in during programming to televise 
the event with one last announcement that if our signal goes away 
that you have to convert.

Glenn Little
WB4UIV
CE WCIV TV



At 09:38 PM 1/30/2009, you wrote:

>If I may,

>

>    I would like to ask all of the TV engineers involved in the 

> analog shutoff to do one simple thing:

>

>Video tape it.

>

>    I know, in many cases one could dial up the remote control and 

> shut down the analog.

>But this is a historic moment. Use a station camera or a simple cam 

>corder. Then put a twenty second wrap around it, and put it up on You Tube.

>Label it "Analog Shutoff WXYZ", so we can all find them.

>

>Twenty years from now, when we are all in our rocking chairs at my 

>new broadcast engineering retirement home, "Sign-off Acres", we can 

>look at the videos, after we transfer them to 16 mm, and watch them 

>on our Bell and Howell movies projectors!

>

>    Most seriously, please pass the word and ask all TV engineers to 

> video tape the moment.

>

>    Tom Bosscher, a radio engineering type guy...

>

>

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