By 11:59 pm on Tuesday, more than one-third of full-power broadcasters in the U.S. will no longer be transmitting an analog signal.
A total of 641 stations will go all-digital on Feb. 17, the original date of the digital transition. Congress then postponed the switch until June 12, fearing too many viewers weren’t prepared. Among the lawmakers’ reasons for the delay was the maxed-out budget of government’s converter-box coupon program.
Despite the delay, the FCC granted requests on a case-by-case basis to broadcasters who wanted to pull the plug sooner. …
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Now, if those stations would also pull the plug on their HD signals and the other 400+ TV stations would join them, we’d be getting somewhere.
But then i would be out of a job.
Cheers, mi3ke
Can’t pull the plug on HD, we already sold the rights to the freed up spectrum.