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681 TV Stations Set to Kill Analog Signals Next Week
Phone Scoop - Latest News —
... to digital TV signals, some 40% - 681 of about 1800 - TV stations plan to make the switch after February 17 anyway. The major networks, ABC, CBS, and NBC, said that would continue to broadcast in analog and digital. These three networks, however, only control about 100 of the total 1800 TV stations in question. The local stations that do decide to go all digital will free up some of the 700Mhz spectrum in those markets that companies such as Qualcomm have bought the rights to use. more info at Reuters ...
Screw June 12: 40 Percent of TV Stations Will Abandon Analog Next Week Anyway [Dtv]
Gizmodo —
Even though the mandatory switchover date from analog to digital will be June 12 soon, about 681 (or 40 percent of) television stations will stop broadcasting analog by the end of next week. Yup, everything's going to plan. [Reuters]
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Screw June 12: Forty Percent of TV Stations Will Abandon Analog Next Week Anyway [Dtv]
Gizmodo —
Even though the mandatory switchover date from analog to digital will be June 12 soon, about 681 (or forty percent of) television stations will stop broadcasting analog by the end of next week. Yup, everything's going to plan. [Reuters]
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Linkpost | 2.11.2009
TechBlog —
... - Service will probably continue, but overpriced, overhyped "talent" like Howard Stern may be yanked. • Many local TV stations to go ahead with DTV switch - About 40 percent won't wait 'til June. • ...
40% Of TV Stations Switching To Digital Next Week
The Blade by Ron Schenone, MVP —
... the delayed bill gave television stations, which say they’ve spent millions of dollars preparing and educating viewers of the switch-over, the option to transition to all digital on the original date, next Tuesday.
I know where I live the same thing is happening. About 1/2 of the stations are making the switch. What about where you live? Are they waiting until June or going ahead with the switch?
Comments welcome
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Over one-third of local stations will stop broadcasting analog next week
Obsessable News Feed —
Watch out! Over 681 stations have decided to go ahead with the DTV transition despite the delay. Even though the Federal Communications Commission voted for a mandatory delay on the digital transition, it looks like quite a few local television stations are going to go ahead and make the switch anyway.
The FCC said Tuesday that 681 of the close to 1800 television broadcast stations will have stopped broadcasting in analog by next week. That means that if you don't have a digital television or digital converter box you may not be able ...
40% of stations shutting down analog broadcasts anyways
Boing Boing Gadgets —
... of analog signals. And wouldn't you know: 40% of them won't, shutting those signals down next Tuesday.
I've been flip in the past about my feelings about exactly why the digital transition delay is a bad idea, but it really does come down to this: 40% of analog signals shutting down on February 17th is a hell of a lot more confusing to people than 100% shutting down. Expect a lot or befuddled grannies shrieking in the aisles of Best Buy over the coming weeks.
Many local TV stations to go ahead with DTV switch [Reuters]
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