Analog shutdown - WXIA-TV11 Atlanta - June 12, 2009

11 Alive's analog signal goes off the air. There are some jumpcuts:
0:00 Anchorwoman Jill Becker announces a local concert appearance by none other than then-Disney starlet Miley Cyrus
0:12 Ms. Becker advises viewers to stay tuned for the incoming DTV transition
0:27 Ms. Becker reports on the DTV switchover at 12:30
0:49 View from the transmitter, with the original engineer (NOT identified here) hitting the OFF button with some assistance from Karyn Greer

On September 30, 1951, 11 Alive went on the air as locally-owned WLTV, which was originally on channel 8 and affiliated with ABC. In 1953, WLTV was sold to Crosley Broadcasting Corporation, moved to channel 11, and was renamed to WLW-A, as was Crosley's custom in the '50s. In 1961, Crosley settled a dispute with Richard Fairbanks over the ownership of channel 13 (WLW-I, now WTHR) in Indianapolis; he took control of channel 11 (which was subsequently renamed to WAII-TV) and Crosley got to keep channel 13. In 1968, Fairbanks sold the station to Pacific & Southern Broadcasting (later Combined Communications) which renamed it to WQXI. December 25, 2018 will mark the 45th anniversary of channel 11 assuming the WXIA-TV callsign. In 1979, Combined Communications merged with the broadcast unit of the Gannett Company, which remained the owner until 2015, when the publishing and broadcast arms of Gannett were split in half; the broadcast arm was rechristened as Tegna, Inc. WXIA-TV has been an NBC station since 1980 and has marketed itself as 11 Alive since September 20, 1976; the only break it ever had from that marketing was in August of 1994.

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