Throwback - The Death of WPVI-TV's 87.7FM, June, 2009
Mike M. Mike M.
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 Published On Feb 18, 2023

This is heavily edited. -- The last few minutes of WPVI-TV (Philadelphia)'s analogue audio feed on 87.7FM.

Received from East Rockhill Township, PA. - June, 2009. -- At this time, the over the air actual NTSC video portion could not be received outdoors at the exact same location.

This audio clip is a sort of preview as to what 87.7FM sounded like -- or could sound like -- in any United States Television Market with a channel on RF Channel 6 during the NTSC era. (Of which the audio portion was automatically on 87.7FM.)

Some of the sibilance distortion makes me wonder what sort of audio processing was in use here. -- Or if the FM audio feed was allowed to occasionally overmodulate -- more than slightly.

What sort of shocked me was that the shut-off was .... no-frills. -- No old-school countdown, or sign-off montage with music of any type. Frankly, I would have assumed a retro montage opening with the classic Move Closer To Your World - By Al Ham -- would have been the last few images and sound played.

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