D-Day, part 1

February 18, 2009 Off By Jason

For those of you who didn’t stay up until midnight to see what happened when WQEX-TV (formerly analog channel 16), WPMY-TV (22) and WPGH-TV (53) stopped broadcasting in analog, well, you didn’t miss much.

WQEX simply pulled the plug on its soul-sucking carriage of the ShopNBC network. There wasn’t so much as a test pattern, a legal ID or a few seconds of “Always Look on The Bright Side of Life.”

The remaining viewers watching the analog transmissions of WPMY and WPGH saw a few seconds of a JVC DVD player start-up screen. Both stations then went to a continuous loop (in English y en Espa