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* Radio/RadioDisney rarely, if ever, played any song more than a few months old. This was until it was announced to be closing down in early 2021. After the deejays were retired on New Year’s Eve, Radio Disney played a shuffled selection of hits from across its 24-year history. Their last terrestrial radio station in Los Angeles, which had been playing their Country station since 2017, also flipped back to the pop feed for the final weeks. RD was finally silenced without fanfare on April 14th, 2021, the last song allegedly being Natasha Bedingfield’s “Unwritten”.
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* There are a fair few songs commonly used for the last play of a dying station, depending on its format. These include, but are not limited to: Music/BoyzIiMen’s “End Of The Road” (Soul), Music/GarthBrooks’s “The Dance” (Country), Semisonic’s “Closing Time” (Soft AC), and Music/Nsync’s “Bye Bye Bye” (AC/90s).
* Radio/RadioDisney rarely, if ever, played any song more than a few months old. This was until it was announced to be closing down in early 2021. After the deejays were retired on New Year’s Eve, Radio Disney played a shuffled selection of hits from across its 24-year history. Their last terrestrial radio station in Los Angeles, which had been playing their Country station since 2017, also flipped back to the pop feed for the final weeks.RD Radio Disney was finally silenced without fanfare on April 14th, 2021, the last song allegedly being Natasha Bedingfield’s “Unwritten”. “Unwritten”, after which AM1110 switched to ESPN.
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* Fine Living Network ended to make way for Creator/{{Cooking Channel}} on May 31, 2010. To mark the transition, the network played [[https://youtu.be/PJJs4bHuNJo an indent]] where The Grim Reaper arrives at a house, presumably the address of Fine Living Network, and rings the doorbell, implying the network is literally dead.
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* Fine Living Network ended to make way for Creator/{{Cooking Channel}} on May 31, 2010. To mark the transition, the network played [[https://youtu.be/PJJs4bHuNJo an indent]] ident]] where The Grim Reaper arrives at a house, presumably the address of Fine Living Network, and rings the doorbell, implying the network is literally dead.
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* {{Creator/G4TV}} ended its original run with a game of {{VideoGame/Pong}} that slowly shrunk and filled with a grey color, followed by a sound clip of Kevin Pereira shouting "I'M AT COMIC-CON!!!" (a possible allusion to G4 dying and going to "nerd heaven") as the dot shut off like an analog TV alongside {{VideoGame/Donkey Kong}}'s death bloops from the {{UsefulNotes/Atari 2600}} and the {{UsefulNotes/Game Boy}} start-up chime.
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* Film Zone, belonging to FOX Latin America (before being bought by Disney) underwent some changes in its programming after the changes of its parent company LAPTV. Among these was the elimination of the soft porn that were shown at night, in addition to new graphics. Despite this, Film Zone was one of the most watched and loved channels. In 2017, FOX Latin America made the biggest change of all: introducing the FXM brand to the Latin market. This meant Film Zone have to close to make way for the new channel. FOX Latin America, in order to put an end to the channel, decided to launch some promotional items with the Film Zone logo in mourning and giving some references to some of the films that were shown on the channel. On September 18, 2017, after showing its latest film, Richard Gere's ''The Double'', [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8nzqZlviLU the Film Zone logo bids farewell to its entire audience by wishing them good night]]. Finally, a tombstone appears with the start and end dates of the channel with an epitaph that says: "good stories never die".
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* Film Zone, belonging to FOX Latin America (before being bought by Disney) underwent some changes in its programming after the changes of its parent company LAPTV. Among these was the elimination of the soft porn that were shown at night, in addition to new graphics. Despite this, Film Zone was one of the most watched most-watched and loved channels. In 2017, FOX Latin America made the biggest change of all: introducing the FXM brand to the Latin market. This meant Film Zone have to close to make way for the new channel. FOX Latin America, in order to put an end to the channel, decided to launch some promotional items with the Film Zone logo in mourning and giving some references to some of the films that were shown on the channel. On September 18, 2017, after showing its latest film, Richard Gere's ''The Double'', [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8nzqZlviLU the Film Zone logo bids farewell to its entire audience by wishing them good night]]. Finally, a tombstone appears with the start and end dates of the channel with an epitaph that says: "good stories never die".
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* Film Zone, belonging to FOX Latin America (before being bought by Disney) underwent some changes in its programming after the changes of its parent company LAPTV. Among these was the elimination of the soft porn that were shown at night, in addition to new graphics. Despite this, Film Zone was one of the most watched and loved channels. In 2017, FOX Latin America made the biggest change of all: introducing the FXM brand to the Latin market. This meant Film Zone have to close to make way for the new channel. FOX Latin America, in order to put an end to the channel, decided to launch some promotional items with the Film Zone logo in mourning and giving some references to some of the films that were shown on the channel. On September 18, 2017, after showing its latest film, Richard Gere's ''The Double'', the Film Zone logo bids farewell to its entire audience by wishing them good night (see image above). Finally, a tombstone appears with the start and end dates of the channel with an epitaph that says: "good stories never die". You can watch the final broadcast [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8nzqZlviLU here]].
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* While Israeli Broadcasting Authority's TV channel shut down was very sad, the shut down of its radio station was not. 88FM, the only radio station that was active during the shut down (again, due to Eurovision), shut down the following day. Their last show was ''Progressive and Other Animals'', a radio show that presented rock music, hosted by Boaz Cohen. During the show, all the radio staff was present that day, singing and dancing. Their last song was Music/PinkFloyd's ''Shine On You Crazy Diamond'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TyXjlLrgGI8 with all the staff singing it all along]].
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* Israeli Broadcasting Authority (IBA) had [[TearJerker one of the saddest shut downs ever]]:
** In 2014, the IBA went through several restructuring as the Israeli government decided to create a new company that would be in charge of managing the new public television: the Israeli Public Broadcasting Corporation (IPBC). However, the government could not start operations of the new company until May 15, 2017 due to problems with the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), owners of the Series/EurovisionSongContest.
** On May 9, 2017, the IBA administration informed its employees of the decision to close the channel and the company, two hours before the broadcast of its ''[=Mabat LaHadashot=]'' newscast. The closing announcement was made during the newscast. The atmosphere was devastating, to the point that [[https://www.facebook.com/watch/?ref=external&v=1454393854650965 several of the reporters ended up crying during the broadcast]].
** After the newscast, all IBA-related TV channels closed broadcasts. Only one channel continued to broadcast regular programming sans the newscast because they had to broadcast the Eurovision contest of that year, leaving only 20 workers who were in charge of broadcasting the event. Eurovision presenter Ofer Nachshon said goodbye to the event on behalf of the IBA.
** After the Eurovision event, the IBA broadcasted a music video recalling some of the most important moments of the television channel, sung by Marina Maximilian Blumin. The song is called '' The ballad about Hedva and Shlomik (הבלדה על חדווה ושלומיק) ''. Finally, the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nA7p2_9-Xms IBA broadcasted the final part of the newscast ''Mabat LaHadashot'', with the entire staff tearfully singing the national anthem of Israel ''(Hatikvah)'']].
** On a positive note, the IPBC, a channel that began broadcasting on May 15, 2017 replacing the IBA, returned to the Eurovision contest the following year, winning it and gaining the oportunity to host the 2019 event.
** In 2014, the IBA went through several restructuring as the Israeli government decided to create a new company that would be in charge of managing the new public television: the Israeli Public Broadcasting Corporation (IPBC). However, the government could not start operations of the new company until May 15, 2017 due to problems with the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), owners of the Series/EurovisionSongContest.
** On May 9, 2017, the IBA administration informed its employees of the decision to close the channel and the company, two hours before the broadcast of its ''[=Mabat LaHadashot=]'' newscast. The closing announcement was made during the newscast. The atmosphere was devastating, to the point that [[https://www.facebook.com/watch/?ref=external&v=1454393854650965 several of the reporters ended up crying during the broadcast]].
** After the newscast, all IBA-related TV channels closed broadcasts. Only one channel continued to broadcast regular programming sans the newscast because they had to broadcast the Eurovision contest of that year, leaving only 20 workers who were in charge of broadcasting the event. Eurovision presenter Ofer Nachshon said goodbye to the event on behalf of the IBA.
** After the Eurovision event, the IBA broadcasted a music video recalling some of the most important moments of the television channel, sung by Marina Maximilian Blumin. The song is called '' The ballad about Hedva and Shlomik (הבלדה על חדווה ושלומיק) ''. Finally, the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nA7p2_9-Xms IBA broadcasted the final part of the newscast ''Mabat LaHadashot'', with the entire staff tearfully singing the national anthem of Israel ''(Hatikvah)'']].
** On a positive note, the IPBC, a channel that began broadcasting on May 15, 2017 replacing the IBA, returned to the Eurovision contest the following year, winning it and gaining the oportunity to host the 2019 event.
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* Film Zone, belonging to FOX Latin America (before being bought by Disney) underwent some changes in its programming after the changes of its parent company LAPTV. Among these was the elimination of the soft porn that were shown at night, in addition to new graphics. Despite this, Film Zone was one of the most watched and loved channels. In 2017, FOX Latin America made the biggest change of all: introducing the FXM brand to the Latin market. This meant Film Zone have to close to make way for the new channel. FOX Latin America, in order to put an end to the channel, decided to launch some promotional items with the Film Zone logo in mourning and giving some references to some of the films that were shown on the channel. On September 18, 2017, after showing its latest film, {{Film/TheDouble}}, the Film Zone logo bids farewell to its entire audience by wishing them good night (see image above). Finally, a tombstone appears with the start and end dates of the channel with an epitaph that says: "good stories never die". You can watch the final broadcast [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8nzqZlviLU here]].
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* Radio/RadioDisney rarely, if ever, played any song more than a few months old. This was until it was announced to be closing down in early 2021. After the deejays were retired on New Year’s Eve, Radio Disney played a shuffled selection of hits from across its 24-year history. Their last terrestrial radio station in Los Angeles, which had been playing their Country station since 2017, also flipped back to the pop feed for the final weeks.
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* Likewise Speed Channel ended with former [=NASCAR=] play-by-play announcer Mike Joy making a statement marking the channel's end by saying it was "time to switch off the ignition and turn in the keys" and then reassuring the viewers that much of it's live programming including [=NASCAR=] would still be seen on the channel's successor, Fox Sports 1.
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** * ''Film/Gremlins2TheNewBatch'': In a reference to the rumored existence of this tape, when Clamp learns that he will have to shut down his automated skyscraper, which includes a cable network, he reveals that he had a tape prepared, one that would be a final farewell to their audience. He never thought it would ever be used.
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* The last night of Creator/TheWB (before its merger with Creator/{{UPN}} to form [[Creator/{{TheCW}} The CW]]) featured a "Night of Favorites and Farewell" -- with airings of the pilot episodes of ''Series/{{Felicity}}'', ''Series/{{Angel}}'', ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'', and ''Series/DawsonsCreek'', peppered with flashbacks of the network's history (and promos for the DVD sets and the cable channels showing off-network reruns of said series), concluding with a final montage which ended with a shadowed Michigan J. Frog (the network's former mascot, who had been retired a few years before) bowing to the audience as their curtain fell. WPIX, the network's New York City station, followed it up with a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8GZKYIDltQ montage of their past logos]] (with music from that era accompanying each one) before officially rebranding as CW 11 for the 10 o'clock news.
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* British movie channel Carlton Cinema folded with the rest of the short-lived {{Creator/ITV}} Digital operation in 2003: its closedown included a montage of film scenes set to Alice Faye's "You'll Never Know".
* During the transition to digital television in the UK, Northern Ireland was the final region to perform the analogue shutdown. {{Creator/BBC}} One Northern Ireland's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHOYXR5e72U final sign-off]] culminated with the blue and yellow mirror globe [[StationIdent ident]] from the 70's, followed by a scene of a control room with a plush of Digit Al (the mascot used in campaigns informing viewers of the transition) on top of a screen with said mirror globe, and the monitors behind it showing a series of classic BBC One idents from each subsequent era (beginning with the Computer Originated World) and an obituary for Ceefax (which also shut down due to the transition). BBC Two Northern Ireland had a similar sign-off done over the classic BBC 2 animated stripes of the early 80's, which animated off-screen in reverse
** For the same occasion, BBC One Wales [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Er4UyIqC2s4 showed a black and white version]] of the mirror globe, slowly zooming out and fading into the darkness.
* Australia's Creator/SevenNetwork had some unique sign-offs for its analogue switchoffs too, with Sydney featuring a reprisal of the station's former sign-off sequence ([[https://youtu.be/aWk5SvvCeA8 including a music video to Tommy Leonetti's "My City of Sydney", followed by an animation of a kangaroo turning the "ATN Channel 7" logo into a bed for her joey before pulling down a shade, revealing the word "Goodbye"]]), Melbourne featuring [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YICGcLWyzOg a montage of the programs produced at the station]] (with the conclusion set to its classic "Hello Melbourne" jingle from the mid-1980's), and Brisbane featuring a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-e-cm5cpb0 quick montage of clips and classic Seven Network idents before ending on an old testcard.]]
* Certain U.S. network stations pulled out the stops for their analog shutdowns. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgH2dZ0l-BY KDKA in Pittsburgh]] dusted off the old "High Flight" video they used to show when signing off for the night, followed by a unique national anthem montage showing their old in-house programming, moving backwards from the then-present to the station's early days. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvQti6LNKrs KADN in Lafayette]] did something similar, showing some old bumpers followed by their old national anthem video. Other stations also dusted off their old sign-offs one last time for the occasion.
** [[https://allermann.blogspot.com/2013/01/daisy-daisy.html This blog]] found video of seemingly every analog signoff in the US, as well as a few in Japan and Australia. Some went out with anchors counting down live, some used an old sign-off, some created a farewell montage, some botched it, and some simply cut to black.
* The last night of Creator/TheWB (before its merger with Creator/{{UPN}} to form [[Creator/{{TheCW}} The CW]]) featured a "Night of Favorites and Farewell" -- with airings of the pilot episodes of ''Series/{{Felicity}}'', ''Series/{{Angel}}'', ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'', and ''Series/DawsonsCreek'', peppered with flashbacks of the network's history (and promos for the DVD sets and the cable channels showing off-network reruns of said series), concluding with a final montage featuring a shadowed Michigan J. Frog (the network?s former mascot, who had been retired a few years before) bowing to the audience as their curtain fell. WPIX, the network's New York City station, followed it up with a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8GZKYIDltQ montage of their past logos]] (with music from that era accompanying each one) before officially rebranding as CW 11 for the 10 o'clock news.
* When the Brazilian Creator/{{MTV}} shut down as a terrestrial broadcast channel in 2013 (before changing to satellite/cable channel), they aired O Ultimo Programa do Mundo ("The Last Program in the World"). The last two [=VJs=] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4HxXdiVVMc who talked before a montage]] were also the first two [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qPfUoVhoog in the initial broadcast in 1990.]]
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[[folder: Cable/Satellite TV Channels]]
* {{Creator/G4TV}} ended its original run with a game of {{VideoGame/Pong}} that slowly shrunk and filled with a grey color, followed by a sound clip of Kevin Pereira shouting "I'M AT COMIC-CON!!!" (a possible allusion to G4 dying and going to "nerd heaven") as the dot shut off like an analog TV alongside {{VideoGame/Donkey Kong}}'s death bloops from the {{UsefulNotes/Atari 2600}} and the {{UsefulNotes/Game Boy}} start-up chime.
* Fox Soccer shut down with a clip of soccer footage being interrupted by that one ''Series/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphia'' scene where a couch gives birth to Frank, hailing the official launch of its replacement -- the comedy-oriented Creator/{{FX|Networks}} spin-off FXX.
* Fine Living Network ended to make way for Creator/{{Cooking Channel}} on May 31, 2010. To mark the transition, the network played an indent where The Grim Reaper arrives at a house, presumably the address of Fine Living Network, and rings the doorbell, implying the network is literally dead.
* The final day of UK [[Creator/ToonDisney Jetix]]'s programming ended with [[https://youtu.be/BlDtlj0f4fg a montage of some of the shows that had been displayed on the channel before cutting to Jetix's mascot, Jay, lying asleep in a lawnchair, finally able to retire and rest now that Jetix was finished.]] The channel then switched over to Creator/DisneyXD.
* Disney XD Australia ended with a back-to-back airing of the entire {{Film/High School Musical}} trilogy.
* Downplayed with Chiller ending it's final broadcast day with an airing of Film/TheBabadook and then a simple message of "Thank you for watching Chiller. Good night!"
* The {{Creator/CBC}}'s Newsworld International stopped broadcasting in 2005, ending with a special farewell message from their Toronto offices before switching to Current TV.
** The final item to air on Current TV in before it's end in 2013 was a short documentary titled "Jumper," which was also the first thing to air upon Current's launch on August 1, 2005, thus "bookending" the network.
** Current was replaced with {{Creator/Al Jazeera}} America, which itself ended on April 12, 2016 with a three-hour retrospective film named "Your Stories" that played twice on the final day. Antonio Mora and Richelle Carey, who were the first anchors on the air when the network launched, were the last two to appear when it went off the air.
* Activism-oriented Pivot ended with *five* consecutive showings of the movie {{Film/Good Night and Good Luck}}.
* {{Creator/CNN}} has had plans since the beginning to only go off the air if the world ends, and they [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6f7j1E61sM have footage in their system ready to play in case that should ever happen.]] In another case of BookEnds, it's footage of the mixed-military band that played the American National Anthem when they first signed on playing "Nearer My God to Thee." The copy of it linked here was leaked by a former intern in 2015.
** * ''Film/Gremlins2TheNewBatch'': In a reference to the rumored existence of this tape, when Clamp learns that he will have to shut down his automated skyscraper, which includes a cable network, he reveals that he had a tape prepared, one that would be a final farewell to their audience. He never thought it would ever be used.
* On December 15, 2020, Creator/WarnerMedia shut down its premium movie channels in India, HBO India, HBO HD India, and Warner Brothers India. During the days leading up to the closure, all channels ran a notice celebrating the channels' 20 years on the air and rolling credits to thank the channels' staff. Both HBO and WB ran "Best Of" marathons, and shortly before the shutdown, HBO aired a montage of movie clips while thanking the viewer for loving the network.
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[[folder: Radio Stations]]
* In 2019, New York City adult contemporary station WPLJ was sold to a Christian radio network, and ended a 71-year run as a commercial station. Their final days on-air in May 2019 were met with much fanfare, including a promotion in which the station would play through songs from 1971 (the station's first year under the WPLJ calls) to the present to "clean out" its music library, while there were also on-air reunions of past personalities, and a final toast to the station at around 7:00 p.m. on May 30, after which the station flipped to the K-Love network.
* [[https://formatchangearchive.com/ Format Change Archive]] is a site dedicated entirely to recordings of radio station format changes.
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[[folder: Broadcast TV Channels]]
* British movie channel Carlton Cinema folded with the rest of the short-lived {{Creator/ITV}} Digital operation in 2003: its closedown included a montage of film scenes set to Alice Faye's "You'll Never Know".
* During the transition to digital television in the UK, Northern Ireland was the final region to perform the analogue shutdown. {{Creator/BBC}} One Northern Ireland's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHOYXR5e72U final sign-off]] culminated with the blue and yellow mirror globe [[StationIdent ident]] from the 70's, followed by a scene of a control room with a plush of Digit Al (the mascot used in campaigns informing viewers of the transition) on top of a screen with said mirror globe, and the monitors behind it showing a series of classic BBC One idents from each subsequent era (beginning with the Computer Originated World) and an obituary for Ceefax (which also shut down due to the transition). BBC Two Northern Ireland had a similar sign-off done over the classic BBC 2 animated stripes of the early 80's, which animated off-screen in reverse
** For the same occasion, BBC One Wales [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Er4UyIqC2s4 showed a black and white version]] of the mirror globe, slowly zooming out and fading into the darkness.
* Australia's Creator/SevenNetwork had some unique sign-offs for its analogue switchoffs too, with Sydney featuring a reprisal of the station's former sign-off sequence ([[https://youtu.be/aWk5SvvCeA8 including a music video to Tommy Leonetti's "My City of Sydney", followed by an animation of a kangaroo turning the "ATN Channel 7" logo into a bed for her joey before pulling down a shade, revealing the word "Goodbye"]]), Melbourne featuring [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YICGcLWyzOg a montage of the programs produced at the station]] (with the conclusion set to its classic "Hello Melbourne" jingle from the mid-1980's), and Brisbane featuring a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-e-cm5cpb0 quick montage of clips and classic Seven Network idents before ending on an old testcard.]]
* Certain U.S. network stations pulled out the stops for their analog shutdowns. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgH2dZ0l-BY KDKA in Pittsburgh]] dusted off the old "High Flight" video they used to show when signing off for the night, followed by a unique national anthem montage showing their old in-house programming, moving backwards from the then-present to the station's early days. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvQti6LNKrs KADN in Lafayette]] did something similar, showing some old bumpers followed by their old national anthem video. Other stations also dusted off their old sign-offs one last time for the occasion.
** [[https://allermann.blogspot.com/2013/01/daisy-daisy.html This blog]] found video of seemingly every analog signoff in the US, as well as a few in Japan and Australia. Some went out with anchors counting down live, some used an old sign-off, some created a farewell montage, some botched it, and some simply cut to black.
* The last night of Creator/TheWB (before its merger with Creator/{{UPN}} to form [[Creator/{{TheCW}} The CW]]) featured a "Night of Favorites and Farewell" -- with airings of the pilot episodes of ''Series/{{Felicity}}'', ''Series/{{Angel}}'', ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'', and ''Series/DawsonsCreek'', peppered with flashbacks of the network's history (and promos for the DVD sets and the cable channels showing off-network reruns of said series), concluding with a final montage featuring a shadowed Michigan J. Frog (the network?s former mascot, who had been retired a few years before) bowing to the audience as their curtain fell. WPIX, the network's New York City station, followed it up with a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8GZKYIDltQ montage of their past logos]] (with music from that era accompanying each one) before officially rebranding as CW 11 for the 10 o'clock news.
* When the Brazilian Creator/{{MTV}} shut down as a terrestrial broadcast channel in 2013 (before changing to satellite/cable channel), they aired O Ultimo Programa do Mundo ("The Last Program in the World"). The last two [=VJs=] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4HxXdiVVMc who talked before a montage]] were also the first two [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qPfUoVhoog in the initial broadcast in 1990.]]
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[[folder: Cable/Satellite TV Channels]]
* {{Creator/G4TV}} ended its original run with a game of {{VideoGame/Pong}} that slowly shrunk and filled with a grey color, followed by a sound clip of Kevin Pereira shouting "I'M AT COMIC-CON!!!" (a possible allusion to G4 dying and going to "nerd heaven") as the dot shut off like an analog TV alongside {{VideoGame/Donkey Kong}}'s death bloops from the {{UsefulNotes/Atari 2600}} and the {{UsefulNotes/Game Boy}} start-up chime.
* Fox Soccer shut down with a clip of soccer footage being interrupted by that one ''Series/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphia'' scene where a couch gives birth to Frank, hailing the official launch of its replacement -- the comedy-oriented Creator/{{FX|Networks}} spin-off FXX.
* Fine Living Network ended to make way for Creator/{{Cooking Channel}} on May 31, 2010. To mark the transition, the network played an indent where The Grim Reaper arrives at a house, presumably the address of Fine Living Network, and rings the doorbell, implying the network is literally dead.
* The final day of UK [[Creator/ToonDisney Jetix]]'s programming ended with [[https://youtu.be/BlDtlj0f4fg a montage of some of the shows that had been displayed on the channel before cutting to Jetix's mascot, Jay, lying asleep in a lawnchair, finally able to retire and rest now that Jetix was finished.]] The channel then switched over to Creator/DisneyXD.
* Disney XD Australia ended with a back-to-back airing of the entire {{Film/High School Musical}} trilogy.
* Downplayed with Chiller ending it's final broadcast day with an airing of Film/TheBabadook and then a simple message of "Thank you for watching Chiller. Good night!"
* The {{Creator/CBC}}'s Newsworld International stopped broadcasting in 2005, ending with a special farewell message from their Toronto offices before switching to Current TV.
** The final item to air on Current TV in before it's end in 2013 was a short documentary titled "Jumper," which was also the first thing to air upon Current's launch on August 1, 2005, thus "bookending" the network.
** Current was replaced with {{Creator/Al Jazeera}} America, which itself ended on April 12, 2016 with a three-hour retrospective film named "Your Stories" that played twice on the final day. Antonio Mora and Richelle Carey, who were the first anchors on the air when the network launched, were the last two to appear when it went off the air.
* Activism-oriented Pivot ended with *five* consecutive showings of the movie {{Film/Good Night and Good Luck}}.
* {{Creator/CNN}} has had plans since the beginning to only go off the air if the world ends, and they [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6f7j1E61sM have footage in their system ready to play in case that should ever happen.]] In another case of BookEnds, it's footage of the mixed-military band that played the American National Anthem when they first signed on playing "Nearer My God to Thee." The copy of it linked here was leaked by a former intern in 2015.
** * ''Film/Gremlins2TheNewBatch'': In a reference to the rumored existence of this tape, when Clamp learns that he will have to shut down his automated skyscraper, which includes a cable network, he reveals that he had a tape prepared, one that would be a final farewell to their audience. He never thought it would ever be used.
* On December 15, 2020, Creator/WarnerMedia shut down its premium movie channels in India, HBO India, HBO HD India, and Warner Brothers India. During the days leading up to the closure, all channels ran a notice celebrating the channels' 20 years on the air and rolling credits to thank the channels' staff. Both HBO and WB ran "Best Of" marathons, and shortly before the shutdown, HBO aired a montage of movie clips while thanking the viewer for loving the network.
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[[folder: Radio Stations]]
* In 2019, New York City adult contemporary station WPLJ was sold to a Christian radio network, and ended a 71-year run as a commercial station. Their final days on-air in May 2019 were met with much fanfare, including a promotion in which the station would play through songs from 1971 (the station's first year under the WPLJ calls) to the present to "clean out" its music library, while there were also on-air reunions of past personalities, and a final toast to the station at around 7:00 p.m. on May 30, after which the station flipped to the K-Love network.
* [[https://formatchangearchive.com/ Format Change Archive]] is a site dedicated entirely to recordings of radio station format changes.
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