Re: How will the US local area stations commerate the end of System-M?

In alt.video.digital-tv Max Power <mikehack@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
| How will the US local area stations commerate the end of System-M?
| 
| This footage is how the BBC commerated the end of System-A
| -- http://youtube.com/watch?v=sG52HcgKaD4
| -- I assume RTE (Ireland) had a similar commeration.
| 
| In each market, the NTSC transmitter shutdown will be historical, thus
the 
| need for related programming.
| 
| One would expect that the programming, relating to the shutdown would be
in 
| the public domain ... but I assume under some kind of GNU restrictions.
I 
| don't know if there will be equal joy with respect to the end of NTSC in

| Canada, or Bermuda or Mexico -- as the US more or less unilaterally
imposed 
| System-M on these countries.

Who cares about the restrictions.  OTA, especially analog, is easily
recordable
and you know it will all end up on YouTube in less that a minute.  I hope
they
manage to get the ending of each and every station in the USA.

What I would like to see is that just after the final programming dealing
with
the transition and analog shutdown, each station that existed back when
stations
signed off for the night should carry out the same thing for this one last
final
signoff.  Typically that would be an annoucement of the station callsign
and
other licensing parameters, often including city of license, transmitter
power
and antenna height and location.  Following that, usually some kind of
national
anthem video, followed by a test pattern.  What I'd like to see is that
they do
this is some fa****on showing all the old anthems and test patterns.  I
especially
would like to see as many stations end with the old Indian Head pattern
(with ID)
at the actual shutoff instant.  There should be the standard test tone
with the
test pattern.

Anyone wanna guess how many of these transmitters get offered on EBAY?

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