NC television stations that plan to end analog signal on Feb. 17

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   No One In Particular February 13, 2009

   WLOS now says they are NOT switching off their analog signal February 17th. However, WMYA still is. So what happened there, WLOS insiders? It doesn’t really make much sense to deny WLOS the right to cut theirs off early, but allow WMYA to do so. Both stations are literally broadcast from the same room.

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   eemilla February 12, 2009

   Woohoo! I am so sick of hearing about this.

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   No One In Particular February 11, 2009

   I think this is a good thing. If it costs the stations more money to send out both analog and digital signals, they should definitely turn off analog on the original cutoff date, and I’m glad to see WLOS and WYCW are doing that.

   This digital transition has been planned since as early as 2005 (I seem to remember the original analog cutoff date was set for 2006), so people have had plenty of time to do what they need to do to get ready for it. And stations like WLOS have been harping on it non-stop for the past 2 or 3 months now, and even running reminders across the screen regularly during programming, so there’s no excuse for people not to know what’s going on.

   Although I’m sure when June 12th rolls around and ALL the stations end analog broadcasts, there will still be people who haven’t bought converter boxes yet who have no clue what happened to their TVs. If they aren’t ready now, they won’t be ready June 12th.

   Anyway, that’s my 2 cents…

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