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Digital TV Delay Won't Stop Stations From Making the Switch

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Posted: January 27, 2009

If you think there is confusion now about the switch to digital TV, just wait until the original deadline next month. The bill to delay the deadline until June is racing through Congress. A version passed by the Senate explicitly allows stations to turn off their analog signal anyway.

Many will take the offer. They've got contracts in place to move towers or make other changes. They all can save money by cutting the analog signal.

Grandma will see some stations disappear from her analog set. Others will remain. She'll be banging on the old tube, wondering what's wrong with it.

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THIS IS GOVERNMENT GREED

This changeover is nothing but government greed, They SOLD the frequencies being vacated to the hated cell phone companies, so they can cause more traffic accidents with more phones.
I expect TV riots next week when poor people who can't afford converter boxes get angry.

MidiMagic of IN @ May 25, 2009 01:26:31 AM

Give me a break!

It's TV for crying out loud. If the poor and the elderly's refrigerators were going to stop working it would be a problem. But TV? Go check a book out of the library.

Olive of TX @ Feb 06, 2009 17:30:20 PM

Digital switch

As much as Congress would like to help the people who have not purchased a new TV or a TV converter box, yet another delay is not the answer. If the date is changed again, why would those who are not prepared not think that it could be changed yet again. Sooner or later, the switch must be made. Might as well do it now and get it over with.

Raymond Sills of PA @ Feb 04, 2009 17:10:28 PM

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