Analog shutdown - WLWC-TV28 Providence - December 9, 2008

There are ads for Rhode Island Housing and Zoombak.com shown, along with the end credits of the teen sitcom MALCOLM IN THE MIDDLE and a (twice shown) promo for THE BONNIE HUNT SHOW. The title card for THAT '70S SHOW is shown before the juice is cut. You can see footage of the juice being cut below, as uploaded by jlehmann, the same person who uploaded the above-shown footage. WLWC was the first American television station outside of the Wilmington, North Carolina market to shut down its analog signal.

WLWC-TV is one of the youngest television stations in Providence, going on the air April 14, 1997 as a subsidiary of Fant Broadcasting, with the Outlet Company (owners of WJAR-TV) operating it under a local marketing agreement. The WLWC call signs, previously used on WJAR's sister station WCMH, were used to symbolize the kinship between the Outlet Company and Fant, as WCMH started off as a member of the WLW television network representing Ohio's capital city of Columbus, where Fant-owned WWHO had been operated by Outlet under an LMA. In July 1997, the LMA was sold to the Paramount Stations Group after NBC informed Fant that it did not want to run stations outside of their core O&O markets. Viacom, which owned the PSG, purchased channel 28 outright in 2001, two years after it merged with CBS (which owned Boston stations WBZ-TV and WSBK-TV, both of which had signals that penetrated Providence). In 2005, Viacom and CBS split, with the latter becoming CBS Corporation and getting control of channel 28 in the process. In 2007, channel 28 was sold to Four Points Media Group, a division of Cerberus Capital Management, who elected to sell all its stations to Sinclair in 2012. As far as affiliates, WLWC under Fant ownership was a primary affiliate of the WB that also had a secondary affiliation with UPN. The two networks swapped affiliation roles in 2000, then merged to form The CW in 2006. In 2017, its spectrum was sold for $125,932,367 to Ion Television, which subsequently converted it into an Ion Life O&O and a sister station to WPXQ-TV. The CW moved to channel 64.2 of Fox affiliate WNAC-TV.