April 17th, 2009 
joel As we reported at the beginning of the month, WJET-TV will be the third Erie full-power television station to turn off their analog transmitter as part of the digital TV transition. The latest from YourErie.com:
WJET will cease analog transmission at 11:35 pm on Friday April 17th. During the four day transition to full power digital there are cable systems that will not be able to carry WJET due to their inability to pick up the signal. Those systems include Atlantic Broadband, Clarendon Cable, and Cable Communication Services, all in Warren County. Viewers who rely on an over the air signal will not be able see the station until early next week when the transition is finished, and you have successfully installed your digital converter box. During the WJET transition period the FOX66 signal will be interrupted at certain times for the safety of construction crews working on the tower.
The original timeline had WJET’s full-power digital signal up by Wednesday, and that WFXP would shut down their analog stream on Wednesday night right after the 10:00 news.
As always, whether you have a converter box or a digital television, the three most important things to do are, “rescan, rescan, and rescan.”
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Rescan, Rescan, Rescan – Or just turn the channel to 06 on my cable box!
Now, if I could convince the wife to give up the DVR to trade it for an HD-DVR….but alas, she has too much saved on it.
It was really cool to see Myron Jones…the man that put WJET TV on the air 43 years ago…hit the button that switched off the analog xmitter at 11:35.
I agree that it was cool to see Myron Jones turn off the analog transmitter. I wonder what was going through Mr Jones’ mind as he was doing this? Must have been a bittersweet moment for him?
Tim wrote: “I wonder what was going through Mr Jones’ mind as he was doing this?”
I would guess that he was glad that he sold the station and cashed out of the local small-market TV business back when he & John did. He was and is a very shrewd businessman.
I didn’t see the actuality. I hope they interviewed Myron on this auspicious occasion. What did he have to say ? Were any other luminaries present for the Channel 24 analog shutdown ?
Here’s the link to watch the analog shutdown:
http://yourerie.com/content/video/?watch=1&cid=55761
Thanks Roger, for the YouTube URL. Nice to see Myron again and that he’s doing well.
Gee, that transmitter didn’t look too old. Hey JET engineers, when was that box installed? Or was that just the exciter? (Tells you how much I know about TV!)
It wasn’t as old as the old WQLN analog transmitter which has since left the building.
Yeah, but QLN-FM’s RCA xmitter that was there when I was there in 1973 is STILL in the building!!!
If you would like to see WQLN’s *original* analog Channel 54 transmitter, take a look at —-
http://clevelandclassicmedia.blogspot.com/2009/04/more-wjan-photos.html
which is virtually identical. According to the caption, the transmitter in that photo was used until last week at WDLI 17 in Canton OH.