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Some Stations Go Digital Next Week

Hundreds of stations switch despite delay

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(Newser) – Nearly 700 local TV stations across America plan to switch from analog to digital signals next week despite a new law delaying the transition deadline until June, CNET reports. Congress is worried that 20 million consumers, mostly poor, elderly, or living in rural areas, still don't have the conversion equipment needed to receive digital signals.

The major broadcast networks have agreed to continue analog broadcasts until June from the stations they own and operate.
The major broadcast networks have agreed to continue analog broadcasts until June from the stations they own and operate.   (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)
A television installed with a digital converter box, left, produces a superior image when compared to the analog receiver.
A television installed with a digital converter box, left, produces a superior image when compared to the analog receiver.   (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)
An unidentified prison inmate at a South Carolina facility switches channels. The switch to digital TV has prisons scrambling to keep prisoners from losing access to broadcast TV.
An unidentified prison inmate at a South Carolina facility switches channels. The switch to digital TV has prisons scrambling to keep prisoners from losing access to broadcast TV.   (AP Photo/Mary Ann Chastain)
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bacimom
Feb 12, 09 8:58 AM CST
No matter when they do it there will be people unprepared for it. If after the ad blitz that has gone on for the last year people are unprepared, imagine it will be any better at the last minute in June. Some people will let it pass them up until they are out of signal. Forcing all the media to continue to broadcast in 2 methods and repair broken analog equipment is a drain on the media's finances and does nothing to help the people still without converter boxes. Reply
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Technicolor
Feb 12, 09 9:50 PM CST
In all honesty, I think they will be better off without the television access! Reply
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