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• 1. Gorman  |  May 27th, 2008 at 9:25 am

  We have only one DTV-ready tv in our house, but it’s nothing running out and buying a box can’t fix. It’s procrastination.

• 2. Hussman  |  May 28th, 2008 at 5:49 am

  Agreed. I also really enjoy how everyone likes to point out all the doom & gloom about people not being ready. Hows abouts we focus on those who have been educated and ARE ready?

  It behooves all local affiliates to get off their butts and do something about it. We are.

• 3. will  |  May 28th, 2008 at 10:45 am

  The Nielsen report should be a wake-up call for broadcast TV. For many households, the aftermath of the analog TV shutoff will make Y2K seem like a piece of cake. Notwithstanding that there will be many people without DTV boxes by the deadline, many who do will be unable to pick up their local affiliates’ signals due to the unforgiving nature of over-the-air DTV. Many will simply give up making heroic efforts and do without one or more of their local affiliates. And the irony is, these households are by their nature the most loyal viewers of broadcast TV. One wonders what NEXT year’s May sweeps will look like with so many OTA viewers disenfranchised by the DTV transition.

• 4. Anonymous  |  May 30th, 2008 at 3:40 pm

  ANALOG PASSTHROUGH.

  Only FIVE of the boxes I saw on the approved list even have it and in my area 2/3 of the signals are exempted from the changeover beacause they are LP, Class A and Translator signals.

  You didn’t see it coming? Belo has a station in Boise that leases one from a company with most of the LP/CA signals in the area to rebroadcast the “24/7″ content from it’s DTV subchannel…I’m certain that THEY know.

  Did they EVER get a treaty with Mexico on this? I heard that is leaving the FCC no choice but to delay the cutoff for stations within 50 miles of the border (nice job). Cananda doesn’t have a DTV switchover that I know of, meaning a lot of good shows AND major news markets will LOSE viewers.

  Is WNBC in a good location to provide a decent signal yet? Are there permits that can’t be cleared because the Forest Service hasn’t approved the sites yet? Are there people who will be sorely disappointed when they find the boxes are NOT HDTV but SDTV equivalent? Are there people like my mother who were clueless that channel 7.2 was not available because it’s on UHF 28 and thought they already had it until they were given a ‘lowly’ SDTV? Doesn’t ‘anamorphic’ make Carolyn Holly look bad?

  Gee, KTVB, do us a small favor and encourage Congress, FCC and NAB to get their heads out of the sand and at least do this RIGHT.

• 5. Anonymous  |  January 1st, 2009 at 6:32 pm

  omg!. the tv people are in a panic to get us poor folk with the antenna to tune in. it’s funny to see them get all worried that we might miss an episode of judge judy. they should be giving the converter boxes away! bet they will after a while. fukkem— we’ve got netflix!

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