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• DIGITAL TV TRANSITION OF 2009 AS RECEIVED AND RECORDED IN • Channel 3 • Louisiana, Pennsylvania, Michigan TV DX EXPO pages and images are owned, maintained, and |
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• Nightlight is a station that aired continuous (looped) DTV Transition information beginning on June 12, 2009 (except for emergency and severe weather alerts). Although Nightlights were allowed to operate until July 12, only a small number remained on the air until that date. Nightlights used various types of local IDs. • Transition Highlight photographs display local DTV Transition information that was broadcast on or prior to June 12, 2009. This includes a variety of on-air Transition-related material. These stations left the air or switched to Nightlighting by midnight on June 12. |
| The Final Days of Analog TV in the USA |
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MY LOCAL KTBS-3 AND I HAVE SOMETHING IN COMMON
KTBS-3 began operation on the same day that I was born into world. KTBS was the third TV station in the Shreveport-Texarkana market, and the station would be the market's last VHF outlet. It would be over twenty years before another station would enter this market.
KTBS produced a DX-killing signal, so I generally used two traps to cut down on adjacent channel interference.
On several occassions during the hot summer of 2000, KTBS's transmitter was off for hours at a time in the middle of the day and afternoon. That allowed me to log some stations that I never IDed again, including When DX was strong, I would sometimes disconnect the traps in order to check for floaters and over-takers on channel 3. KVBC-3 Las Vegas, WAVE-3 Louisville, and others were IDed floating on KTBS via E-skip. The best tropo I received through KTBS was a floating signal from KIII-3 Corpus Christi at 400+ miles a few times. Among the stations to over-take KTBS via E-skip were WBTV-3 Charlotte and KTVK-3 Phoenix.
With KTBS gone, XHP-3 Puebla and XHBC-3 Mexicali are now my most-common E-skip logs on channel 3. From June 26, 2009, through 2011, CKVR-3 Barrie was also received often.
During the digital TV age, KDLO-DT-3 Florence and WBRA-DT-3 Roanoke have been the most-common DTVs via E-skip received here on channel 3, while KPHK-LD-3 from the Dallas area is my only DTV tropo log on channel 3.
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KTBS-3 Shreveport, LA 1 Discontinued analog operations on June 26, 2009 |
 My local Nightlight |
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KYW-3 Philadelphia, PA via E-skip at 1,157 Miles 2 July 1, 2009 KYW-3 was a new log. |
KYW-3 displayed this big ID for several seconds between some loops.
 "KYW-TV PHILADELPHIA" is written below |
KYW-3 displayed this Comcast screen immediately after the big ID.
 The audio annoucement says "This program is sponsored by Comcast." |
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WJMN-3 Escabana, MI via E-skip 3 June 2009 |
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These screenshots are from a slide presentation concerning the status of WJMN-3's digital outlet.
Although this is almost the complete slide presentation, I rebuilt the presentation using recordings of four different receptions of WJMN-3's Nightlight programming. |
This was shown between loops of typical NAB DTV information.
WJMN-3 was a new log. |
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