History Main / NetworkFinale

** For online listeners, the last song was Music/{{ACDC}} 's "Back in Black." For FM listeners, the final song was Pedro Suárez-Vértiz's "Me Elevé,"[[note]]as a side note, Pedro Suárez Vértiz was a popular Peruvian singer and composer, and he tragically passed away weeks before on December 28, 2023.[[/note]] but the song was interrupted by the message "God is the owner of radio stations," delivered during the sermon of Rodolfo González Cruz, owner of Radio Bethel, which was a TakeThat to the closed station. All social media accounts were deactivated on the night of February 1, ironically turning them into LostMedia.

** Perhaps not coincidentally, the final program aired, ''WesternAnimation/OpenSeason'', had its credits set to the AlternativeForeignThemeSong "Tú Eres el Amor" by Reyli Barba, which sounds very fitting for the channel's shutdown.

* WAAF Boston was literally the city's last rock and roll station, sold to EMF/K-Love in February 2020. Hundreds of fans gathered in the parking lot to bid the station and its beloved [=DJs=] farewell, while the station aired a final program with appearances by a number of station alumni, as well as Tom Hamilton of Music/{{Aerosmith}}. "Mistress" Carrie Sarao and her colleague Mike Hsu closed out with Black Sabbath's "Black Sabbath", exhorting listeners to crank their windows down and their volume up (Carrie stated that the song was chosen because Music/OzzyOsbourne had released a new album that day, and so the new owners would "have to endure Satan first"). ''Rolling Stone'' has [[https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/christian-radio-educational-media-foundation-1234946121/ an article with background details on K-Love's goals and less than honest tactics]].

* The original Creator/{{G4TV}} [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIaPvsrUG8w ended its original run]] with a game of VideoGame/{{Pong}} - a bit of BookEnds as the channel launched with a Pong marathon - that slowly shrunk and filled with a grey color, followed by a sound clip of a Comic-Con attendee 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/Atari2600 and the UsefulNotes/GameBoy start-up chime.

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* While not a sign-off, [[https://theident.gallery/player.php/BBC3-2016-ID-LASTNIGHT-LAST-1 BBC Three's final ident]] starts out normal, with the two announcers stating that this was their last continuity announcement, and said that they'd see the viewer tomorrow on the BBC iPlayer for the opening of their new online home. The final programme -- an episode of ''Series/GavinAndStacey'' -- was introduced by co-creator Creator/JamesCorden from the Los Angeles studio of ''Series/TheLateLateShow'', wishing the channel good luck before it moved online.

* WAAF Boston was literally the city's last rock and roll station, sold to EMF/K-Love in February 2020. Hundreds of fans gathered in the parking lot to bid the station and its beloved [=DJs=] farewell. "Mistress" Carrie Sarao and her colleague Mike Hsu closed out with -- what else! -- Black Sabbath's "Black Sabbath", exhorting listeners to crank their windows down and their volume up. ''Rolling Stone'' has [[https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/christian-radio-educational-media-foundation-1234946121/ an article with background details on K-Love's goals and less than honest tactics]].

* Forces TV, a channel in the UK that aired a mix of military and vintage programming, ended its final day on the 30th of June 2022 [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7y2W5V8rR8 with a montage of its programming, a "Thank You for Watching" message, and a rousing performance of the National Anthem]].

* Turner Broadcasting's Cable Music Channel -- a short-lived (and by that we mean, it was literally only on for about a month) 1984 attempt to compete with Creator/{{MTV}} -- [[https://youtu.be/33fRytI8E14?feature=shared signed off]] with a final sign-off by its off-screen [=VJs=], followed by a playing of the first video it played -- "I Love L.A." by Music/RandyNewman -- interspersed with a credits roll with footage of the channel's staff.

* Likewise [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtxrDI9PiR4 Speed Channel]] ended with former [=NASCAR=] play-by-play announcer Mike Joy making a statement marking the channel's end by announcing it was "time to switch off the ignition and turn in the keys", then reassuring the viewers that much of its live programming including [=NASCAR=] would still be seen on the channel's successor, Fox Sports 1.

* Fox Soccer shut down with a clip of soccer footage being interrupted by that one ''Series/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphia'' scene where [[ItMakesSenseInContext a couch gives birth to Frank Reynolds]], hailing the official launch of its replacement, the comedy-oriented Creator/{{FX|Networks}} spin-off FXX.

* 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 had 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 promos 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 last film with the Film Zone brand, Richard Gere's ''The Double'', [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8nzqZlviLU the Film Zone logo mourned his loss]], saying that he felt like Truman in ''Film/TheTrumanShow'', and quoting said character's catchphrase. Finally, a tombstone appears with the start and end dates of the channel with an epitaph that says: "good stories never die".

See GrandFinale for when this happens for an individual franchise.

* After the world rebranding left Animax Spain with only four anime series and nothing else, the channel [[https://youtu.be/G5VJIAPb88Y?si=VVtEarRxOXv2Hb7u announced its shutdown]] in December 31, 2013 after an episode of ''Anime/YakitateJapan'', thanking the viewers for everything.

* Jetix Latin America aired [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qPZvMv1_Jo a gut-wrenching series of promos]] for its replacement, Disney XD. More interesting, the promos formed a complete story:

** Moreover, the channel commemorated its shutdown in its last show aired, ''WesternAnimation/OpenSeason'', with the final credits set to the song "Tú Eres el Amor" by Reyli Barba.

* Jetix Latin America aired [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qPZvMv1_Jo promos]] for its replacement, Disney XD. More interesting, the promos formed a complete story:

** For online listeners, the last song was Music/{{ACDC}} 's "Back in Black." For FM listeners, the final song was Pedro Suárez-Vértiz's "Me Elevé," but the song was interrupted by the message "God is the owner of radio stations," delivered during the sermon of Rodolfo González Cruz, owner of Radio Bethel, which was a TakeThat to the closed station. All social media accounts were deactivated on the night of February 1, ironically turning them into LostMedia.

* 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 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.

* The page quote comes from yet another station that was sold to K-Love, album rock station KWSD in Los Angeles. Those words were immediately preceded by the entirety of side two of Music/TheBeatles' ''Music/AbbeyRoad'' album[[note]]except for the HiddenTrack "Her Majesty"[[/note]], and played on an original pressing vinyl to boot. "Golden Slumbers/Carry That Weight/The End" in particular made for a fitting coda to the station.

** After carrying the format for 12 years (the last 8 months as KNOU, "97.1 Now!") the station, in December of 2021, [[MoodWhiplash abruptly announced the format would sign off within just 2 hours]] in favor of a simulcast of news station KNX 1070. The last hour in particular was full of hints at the end of the format, but the very last song in particular, "Sunflower" by Post Malone and Swae Lee, [[KilledMidSentence was abruptly cut off by the launch of the simulcast.]] The last lyric it was on was "Then you're left in the dust"- a particular bit of irony as the song was known for its use in ''[[WesternAnimation/SpiderManIntoTheSpiderVerse Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse]]'', but of ''all moments'' it ends on a spot that could be linked to Spider-Man as well... ''[[Film/AvengersInfinityWar in one of the worse ways possible.]]'' (Even ''more'' coincidental, [[WesternAnimation/SpiderManAcrossTheSpiderVerse the movie's sequel]] had its name and teaser trailer announced ''the day prior''.)

* Turner Broadcasting's Cable Music Channel -- a short-lived (and by that we mean, it was literally only on for about a month) 1984 attempt to compete with Creator/{{MTV}} -- signed off with a final sign-off by its off-screen [=VJs=], followed by a playing of the first video it played -- "I Love L.A." by Music/RandyNewman -- interspersed with a credits roll with footage of the channel's staff.

* During the transition to digital television in the UK, Northern Ireland was the final region to perform the analogue shutdown. [[Creator/TheBBC 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 70s, 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), followed by the then-current BBC logo on a black screen. BBC Two Northern Ireland had a[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UswPMLQRDow similar sign-off]] done over the classic BBC 2 animated stripes of the early 80s, which animated off-screen in reverse.

* During the transition to digital television in the UK, Northern Ireland was the final region to perform the analogue shutdown. [[Creator/TheBBC 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 70s, 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), followed by the then-current BBC logo on a black screen. BBC Two Northern Ireland had a similar sign-off done over the classic BBC 2 animated stripes of the early 80s, which animated off-screen in reverse.

* French free-to-air channel La Sept usually signs off by [[https://youtu.be/oxsAAo6deSo?si=AbSFnZpH00Zimf_S shrinking its signature trapezoid into the corner of the screen]] until September 1993 when they rebranded to Sept-Arte.

** And if it fits well enough, there's always [[BookEnds the song it started out with]]. For instance, Australian station ''[[UsefulNotes/AustralianMedia Magic 693]]'' signed off in 2006 with "Magic Moments" by Music/PerryComo, the first song that was played when the ''Magic'' format replaced ''693 3EE'' in 1994.

* French free-to-air channel La Sept made its end by [[https://youtu.be/oxsAAo6deSo?si=AbSFnZpH00Zimf_S shrinking its signature trapezoid into the corner of the screen]] before changing into Sept-Arte later in September of 1993.

* Disney Channel Asia apparently created a quick advert showcasing how their franchises affect the lives around. Multiple fans here are convinced that this is their goodbye advert, noting the somber music and performance here.

** Current was replaced with Creator/AlJazeera America, which itself ended on April 12, 2016, with a three-hour retrospective film named "Your Stories" that played twice back-to-back as the final programs. 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/GoodNightAndGoodLuck''. This may have been a tribute to predecessor Documentary Channel, which ended with an airing of Edward R. Murrow's famous "Wires and Lights in a Box" speech, ending with those exact words, before transitioning to Pivot.