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.

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