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Digital TV switch delayed

Discussion in 'Anything goes' started by KYSportsWriter, Jan 26, 2009.

  1. KYSportsWriter

    KYSportsWriter Well-Known Member

    Question for the masses: How many people do you know this will affect?

    I can only think of one or two people who still have the rabbit ears.
     
  2. ArnoldBabar

    ArnoldBabar Active Member

    Dammit! The switch was going to be on my 40th birthday. There goes the party theme.

    Thanks, nation of morons!
     
  3. Freelance Hack

    Freelance Hack Active Member

    The towns of Upton and Sonora would have been totally shut off from civilization.
     
  4. KYSportsWriter

    KYSportsWriter Well-Known Member

    Good thing none of them live there ...

    :D
     
  5. txsportsscribe

    txsportsscribe Active Member

    actually, i'd bet there are millions of people still just getting broadcast signals.
     
  6. Batman

    Batman Well-Known Member

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    The ad in question. Terrifying, indeed.
     
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  7. Freelance Hack

    Freelance Hack Active Member

    One of the Louisville stations just said they're planning on going through with the Feb. conversion (ir)regardless :))) of what Congress does.
     
  8. Armchair_QB

    Armchair_QB Well-Known Member

    We are truly a nation of idiots.
     
  9. pseudo

    pseudo Well-Known Member

    Lots of people in urban areas. To them, free TV > paying for it.

    Down here, two hours (and the Allegheny Mountains) in any direction from the nearest over-the-air broadcast, we don't have that option.
     
  10. zebracoy

    zebracoy Guest

    Wait, what's happening to my TV?
     
  11. wicked

    wicked Well-Known Member

    This is a BS, pandering move. Some stations already have shut down the analog transmitter and are transmitting a digital signal only. The costs for stations to keep their analog transmitters going -- many of them already being held together by duct tape, glue and Gummy worms, since stations weren't gonna plow money into soon-to-be obsolete technology -- will be relatively significant, given the economic woes. PBS said something about this costing $22 million for member stations. This will really hurt the few indy stations remaining, too.
     
  12. PCLoadLetter

    PCLoadLetter Well-Known Member

    And a lot of people have a second or third TV that's not on cable. They may have cable in the living room and bedroom, but the TV in the garage gets an over-the-air signal.

    I know there has been some consideration in my market that the stations may just flip the switch anyway. Man, do I hope they do it.
     
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