Confusion Reigns As Analog TV Begins Shutdown

As TV stations across the country switch off their analog signals, uncertainty reigns. Some 691 stations will have converted to digital broadcasting by midnight tonight (some interpreted the mandate as going digital by Feb. 17, not during Feb. 17, and shut down yesterday). This represents about a third of TV broadcasters nationwide. No one can say how many of the estimated 5.8 million households unready for the transition are in areas served by the stations that are switching now. The FCC added to the uncertainty by imposing extra conditions, making it unclear until last Friday exactly which stations would be switching at the beginning of the transition period. The article quotes a former analyst at Barclays Capital who said the whole process has been "botched politically."

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Re:most are the elderly many alone and without fam

[Paracelcus]

EEEEEE, HEHEHEHE, I DooDoo'd in my dydee!

Do I eat in my room? where's my violin? Lotta work isn't it? got a union?

Can't see the TV, must be the Fu-Manchu! Cranked the Phone and the Keystone operator didn't come on the party line, I'll harness up the buckboard and drive into town and see what's wrong!

Re:Once again... BFD

[commodore64_love]

You don't understand shit.

I could shove your face into a toilet, and you still wouldn't comprehend. The *electronics companies* are the ones paying 20 billion dollars to lease channels 52 to 69, and 2 billion of that is used to buy the upgrade coupons. You are not paying a single smelly penny. It is Google, Microsoft, Verizon, Comcast, et cetera who are footing the bill.