---
title: "When did analogue television end in the United States?"
description: "Full-power analogue broadcasting ceased nationally, 12 June 2009. What happened, why it has not happened since, and whether it plausibly could again."
url: https://atoneplace.net/the-last-time/analogue-tv-us/
site: "At One Place"
---

# When did analogue television end in the United States?

**When did analogue television end in the United States?: 12 June 2009**

Full-power analogue broadcasting ceased nationally

The switch had been postponed twice and was accompanied by a government coupon programme for converter boxes, because millions of working televisions were about to stop receiving anything. Analogue broadcasting had run since the 1940s. The freed spectrum was auctioned for mobile networks, which is what the transition was really for.

- **What:** Full-power analogue broadcasting ceased nationally
- **When:** 12 June 2009
- **Category:** Technology that stopped
- **Could this change?:** Not in any foreseeable way. The event is closed.

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> This page gives a date and never a "years ago". These pages are built as static files, so a computed interval would freeze at build time and quietly become wrong — which on a reference site is worse than making the reader do the subtraction.

## Common questions

### When did analogue television end in the United States?

12 June 2009 — Full-power analogue broadcasting ceased nationally.

### What happened?

The switch had been postponed twice and was accompanied by a government coupon programme for converter boxes, because millions of working televisions were about to stop receiving anything. Analogue broadcasting had run since the 1940s. The freed spectrum was auctioned for mobile networks, which is what the transition was really for.

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