Public Television station WMHT TV in Schenectady, New York signing off its analog transmitter. The station will now transmit solely in digital mode on Ch. 34, although the station will continue to use 17 as it's 'virtual channel'. The station signed on March 26th, 1962 and was the second public TV station in New York State behind WNET in New York. WMHT was a charter member of the NET network, the forerunner of today's PBS.

This pre-recorded message began playing at Noon on April 16th, 2009 and looped until sign off. I was caught a little off guard, as the station seemingly dropped the carriers a couple of minutes earlier than expected, although the station did stay on until it's normal 1am sign-off time. WMHT is the first Albany market station to discontinue analog broadcasting, while the other local stations opted to remain on until the June '09 cutoff date (although WNYT & WCWN are running reduced visual power).