Nightlights & Transition Highlights • Channel 5 #2

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Nightlights

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• DIGITAL TV TRANSITION OF 2009 AS RECEIVED AND RECORDED IN NORTH LOUISIANA

• Channel 5 #2 • Wyoming, North Carolina, Texas

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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

Transition Highlight
KGWN-5 Cheyenne, WY via E-skip 1
May 26, 2009

There was a cetain amount of confusion by DXers concerning KGWN-5 Cheyenne and KGWL-5 Lander. For the most part, KGWL was a relayer of KGWC-14 Casper, and KGWC-14 IDs could be seen often on channel 5 via E-skip. KGWN, on the other hand, did not relay any other station and used "CBS5" IDs. IDs from both Wyoming channel 5s are elsewhere on TV • DTV DX EXPO.

Although the signal was not strong during theTransition spot, the news promo looks pretty good.

"1 888 CALL FCC"
This is the end of a short NAB DTV Transition message that KGWN-5 ran prior to the promo in the next photograph.

"Outlets at Loveland" is in Loveland, Colorado, which is about fifty miles south of Cheyenne. The promo said one-hundred viewers would receive $25 gift cards. This was seen on May 26.

Nightlight
WRAL-5 Raleigh, NC via E-skip 2
June 2009

Spanish

WRAL-5's logo, calls, and location were across the lower part of the screen continuously.

English

"WRAL-TV / WRAL-DT RALEIGH" is across the lower part of the screen. Another erroneous "DT" ID...

Nightlight
KXAS-5 Fort Worth, TX via Tropo 3
June 2009

NBC5 (KXAS-5) telephone number	Telemundo 39 (KXTX-39) telephone number
	KXAS-5's big "5" ID was shown between loops.

Nightlight
KRGV-5 Weslaco, TX via Tropo 4
June 13, 2009

At 499 miles, KRGV-5 was my most-distant Nightlight via tropo.
Tropo to South Texas and Mexico was plentiful in June and July of 2009.

These are pictures from a slide and video presentation that KRGV-5 aired between national DTV Transition programming.

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