[zenithfan1]

Originally Posted by Kurt E

It is just after 11pm in Chicago, and the only NTSC VHF signal left is WGN channel 9. I've got it turned in on a 19" B/W Zenith tube portable from about '67. I'm going to watch till the bitter end.

Caught that on a '58 Zenith portable with a camcorder, I was waiting for them to announce it like the others when they just disappeared.
I caught all the others on a wide variety of sets from '49 to my newest set from '86. About 30 in all, I tried to have one for every channel available. I could have set up more but ran out of room and power, breakers were blowing and getting very warm. In fact, the vertical was creeping in on several sets and the lights were dimmed. I cringe to open the next electric bill but I'll be damned if I was gonna miss it! As the day went on, some sets got put away as the stations were fewer and fewer, then I noticed about ten sets on the same channel because so many were gone. I caught most of them dying either on the digital video camera or the camcorder, I'll edit all the pieces together on a rainy day. It was a sad day for us tv enthusiasts, that's for sure.