London DSO

And there goes ITV 1.

I think it's a Ozzie version rather than the one we know and "love"!

We lost ITV1 from Reigate about ten minutes ago!

No such farewell on ITV1 - Ladette to Lady finishes, glitch, half a second of a man walking down a beach, signal goes. We've been spoiled with BBC1 and Ch4 though :p

What's with the switch to black before the snow? Is that them pulling out a circuit or something?

I think the man on the beach was a brief glimspe of C5!

Will channel five have anything prepared? This reminds me of that episode of the simpsons where sideshow bob demands all networks shutdown or he'll blow up springfeild.

And there goes C5...

It's a very odd, very surreal experience...

...and as I type that, Channel 5 just went in the middle of a programme. It's over.

And there goes channel 5 R.I.P analogue tv in London.

If by "anything prepared" you mean unceremoniously switching off half way through a programme, then yeah.

It all feels rather apocalyptic...I've been watching it go on my upstairs TV which I've had since 2002, before Freeview even started. Flicking through the channels and seeing static on each one is very odd.

I remember finding it unbelievable when digital switchover plans were announced about ten years ago...I thought it impossible that everyone would have digital by that time. But there you go. Definitely the end of an era.