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

[Henry M. Seiden]

And you'll publish it on YouTube for those who can't see it? Hope that  
it's not your audience..
On Jan 31, 2009, at 12:28 , Glenn Little WB4UIV wrote:


>

> 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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