2009

2009 was a common year starting on Thursday (Dominical Letter D). It was the 9th year of the 3rd millennium and the 21st century and the 10th and last year of the 2000's decade.

This is the year known for the permanent shutdown of all analog channels on June 12, 2009. However, the then Langile Mediaworks Corporation, formed in 2003 as a result of the 2003 split of the original Langile Corporation as well as its Brand Division, which became Langile Mediaworks (split in 2019 into ATBW Holdings LLC and Langile Holdings LLC) and Langile Consumer Branding (dissolved in 2013, forming Langile Consumer Holdings, AEL Air Conditioners, and leaving Langile Heavy Machinery independent), has also shut down all analog only channels and made them digital.

All analog channels were shut down 5 days before the actual shutdown began, which was on June 7, 2009, which permanently shut down all analog channels for good at 9:00 AM that day. Furthermore, all TV's made including the ATBW A-Tron (1950) and ATBW Linear (1995) were to remove analog support after March 31, 2009. The original series (1950) was discontinued in 2003 (including the black plastic ones invented in 1989), the Grand Series (1995) was discontinued in 2008, while the Big Series (1993) was discontinued in 2007, and the standard flat-screen ones (1993) were discontinued in 2006. Only the portable series of the A-Tron (made since 1995) and the linear series was still sold beyond this point. Further, digital was first added on March 1, 2006 with analog as a combination, but ultimately removed analog on April 1, 2009.

The picture quality of the digital channels is 1080p, unlike the analog ones, which is just 480p. Further, they first added Digital channels on January 30, 2003, usually co-existing with analog channels during that time. All channels that were analog-only were moved to digital-only, thus the cancelation of Analog Only ATBW TV, which was founded that same day until the shutdown.

Events

 * June 7 - All analog channels of ATBW were shut down permanently.
 * June 16 - Razorblade airs its first episode.