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Doc Searls
Приєднався 4 бер 2006
2009 02 17 GPB analog signoff
A recording of the last few minutes of analog (NTSC) video from Georgia Public Broadcasting. While other broadcasters are waiting until June 2009 to drop their analog signals, GPB decided to do it on the former Feb 17, 2009 deadline. This clip is about four minutes of video leading up to the final signoff at midnight. I recorded it off the 5 million watt WNGH-TV signal on Channel 18, which radiates from Fort Mountain in North Georgia. I received it in a room on a high floor in the Westin Peachtree Hotel in downtown Atlanta, 70 miles away. The new 476 thousand watt digital signal also came in fine. In both cases I used an EyeTV receiver, which plugs by USB into my laptop, and supports recording.
[Added June 2016...] To make sense of some comments below, the Ray Charles song "Georgia On My Mind," which accompanied GPB sign-offs for many years (or the duration, I'm not sure), was silenced automatically on this video because (I presume) rights were not cleared for playing it. Since then that problem has been solved somehow, and the music runs. So the complaints about the silenced soundtrack no longer apply. Anyway, enjoy.
[Added June 2016...] To make sense of some comments below, the Ray Charles song "Georgia On My Mind," which accompanied GPB sign-offs for many years (or the duration, I'm not sure), was silenced automatically on this video because (I presume) rights were not cleared for playing it. Since then that problem has been solved somehow, and the music runs. So the complaints about the silenced soundtrack no longer apply. Anyway, enjoy.
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Glad i didn't grew up in georgia, but only in Tennessee!
I was 5½ years old at the time, so I don't really remember this, mainly because I had satellite TV, so yeah I just continued to watch GPB PBS Kids
Digital was the worse thing ever for TV broadcast. The government wanted control of all analog because they know it works better.
The FCC should have accounted for the larger trend: that everything that could be digitized would be digitized, including audio and video production and distribution. That distribution would shift to the Internet-a collection of every network on earth, all using the same open protocol, putting everyone and everything on it a functional distance apart of zero, at costs that veered in the same direction-was also clear by the early '00s. Against this backdrop, over-the--air broadcasting by "stations" with limited range was obsolete. Maybe the FCC knew it and just wanted to incrementalize the shift from broadcast TV to a mix of free and paid versions of "content distribution." But the result today is that over-the-air broadcast TV is obsolete, and radio is moving in the same direction. Saving analog was never in the cards, sorry to say.
makes me feel 25 again. home from the bars...watching it so i dont feel lonely. sounds lonely still at night when its over
I remember when the station in Cochran was WDCO-TV, not WMUM. What did "WDCO" stand for?
WDCO stood for M.D. COllins, a former director of schools in the State, contrary to the belief that the calls stood for Direct from COchran. The call sign was changed around 2006 to WMUM to reflect the city of Macon and Mercer University.
This is what daddy was looking for. Thanks for the video!
How sweet it is, father and son ... thank you, Doc!❤
Welcome! And now son is 27 and living in New York. :-)
Love it! Thank you❤
😂😂😂 I love this video❤ Thank you for the opportunity to see BeBe 16 years ago!❤
Earrape warning at 4:09
Fourteen years… I don’t live in Georgia (not even in one of its bordering states.) but i still can’t believe its been that long…
I grew up in Columbus, GA as a kid and I loved this PBS broadcast signing off.
A wonderful analog farewell! And it's great that Ray Charles' rendition of "Georgia on My Mind" can be heard again.
That old GPTV logo is giving me goosebumps... from being obsessed with old network logos.
Takes me back to my childhood. It's just beautiful. I always liked this version better than the newer ones they used before it ended.
4:08 jesus christ it's so loud
The music made the end of analog it even more sad
more national transitions early and to all a peaceful Sunday morning
I live in Georgia and I was two young to see this but I do remember waching PBS in the morning for the kids cartoons and like I said I was to young to stay up and wach this. But I was born in 2004 so I was around when this happened. But I really love this montage of just how beautiful my state is! Love my state love this song!!! God bless yall and have a great day.
Reminds me of my childhood. As I got older and moved out on my own, I'd change over to GPTV right before the sign off each night and reminisce again and again with pride in the beauty that is home for me, so eloquently reflected in Ray's incomparable rendition of our state song. Now, seeing this again reminds me of my dad, who we lost 2 months ago today. I see him in every sequence, and remember how much I still love my home sweet home that is forever Georgia On My Mind.
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Thanks for posting. My dad was Chief Engineer at WCES Wrens Georgia. Over his 35 year of service I have way to many wonderful memories to share. WCES at one time had the oldest running qulicetroube tube transmitter in continuous operation. I spent many days have my dad breaking down and rework them.
Thank you so much for uploading this gem!
To be fair the sandwich already contains all the mustard in the world.
wow!
I think I recorded that same rocket from Glendale ca. Pretty cool!
The Marta pulling into Ft. McPherson station and the old Atlanta skyline shots are missing. Great video. Always loved it as a kid.
0:23 looks like their is two of them
Look folks, get a recording of Ray Charles' Georgia on My Mind and start it when you see the waves and sun coming up over the beautiful Georgia coastline. It's like the Southern version of Pink Floyd and The Wizard of Oz.
Pretty cool. I watched a Delta IV rocket launch down at cape canaveral and I was the only one in my family interested. I'll be gone for tomorrow's launch at NASA's Wallop Flight Facility in VA.
Pretty cool. I watched a Delta IV rocket launch down at cape canaveral and I was the only one in my family interested. I'll be gone for tomorrow's launch at NASA's Wallop Flight Facility in VA.
that was cool lol :)
not my greatest performance...hahaha
this is how the spark is lit,a son or daughter's life changed forever.
@kingofheartsxyz yep...
I loved this old sign off with Ray Charles doing Georgia.
2:30 wht the kid said ?? " wow its so fukin" ?
@dsearls How about 4 or 5 years later? :)
this sucks !!!!!
@HeWasJustAMuffin1 When you say it, it must be so, since everbody knows, all UFO-footages on YT are real ET-spacecrafts and all missile launches are the fakes. (\_/) ^_~
@cupchange @suddencatharsis @bman0761 watch this. The WHOLE video. Since it was proven that the pictures of the object taken with the lights and the spotlight were proven fakes, nothin more then a helicopter shot in a diff location, this should shut your hater asses up.
We can thank the Nazis for rockets
this video is so adorable and cool at the same time.
Hahahaha the kid responding to what he's telling his wife
THE SOUNDS OF SILENCE IN THIS VIDEO HAS BEEN MADE POSSIBLE BY AN ANNUAL CONTRIBUTION BY BRONFMAN. f*** you, Bronfman. :(
great video. so many people on youtube are portraying these launches as ufo wormholes.
look at the colors! look at the colors! Oh, My, GOD! That is soooo cooool!!! That little kid is so cute! Where did the rocket go? did it just explode in space?
What is this "Minotaur Launch" ? - Plz tell me someone!
the father and son are so cute together :D
I hate WMG. There ought to be a warning to let me know whenever I buy any of their music.
that was cool, i loved when it started making that funnel thing. that kid will prolly be an astronaut one day.