Moel Y Parc – final analogue switch off, 25/11/09

on Mar5 2011

Recorded using a Bauer 1004 1/4″ VTR and camera, pointed at a Bush TV350 portable, the last analogue TV signals from the Moel Y Parc transmitter in north Wales, just after 12.54am on the 25th of November 2009. BBC1 (CH52), ITV (CH49) then S4C (CH42) die off, showing Graham Norton, sport and an advert for a rubbish club music CD compilation respectively. Hardly a fitting epitaph for 38 years of UHF service, “Calvin Harris”, is it? You may also note that there were no warnings, no captions, no sense of occasion, no final words. Nothing, apart from a cringeworthy ‘infomercial’ on S4/C, about 10 minutes beforehand. Quite different to the way final DSO has been treated in most other countries. Oh well, here’s to a brave new world of digital artifacting, and repeats of repeats of repeats on 78 channels.

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4 Comments so far

1 TrouserBowser on March 5, 2011 3:11 am
cut Damn, that was a bit hard! Go to the Sun . . Dr. Watts
2 Coffeebeard on March 5, 2011 3:34 am
“Calvin Harris Ceremony” could be an important term for things that will occur without recognition. Hah.
3 mathiasvolta on March 5, 2011 4:09 am
Thanks for the upload! ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ by me. . .
4 scorpiofootiemad on March 5, 2011 4:19 am
Again, no ceremony, there will have to be one when the last analogue transmission by 2012 end.

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