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According to Bloomberg News, the FCC reports that viewer ratings for stations that have already switched to digital only over-the-air broadcast signals have dropped nine per cent. Read the full story here.
Most stations are waiting for the June deadline, which Congress earlier this year pushed back from February.
I suspect that, whenever this goes down, some people are going to have problems. Delaying the switchover isn’t solving anything; it’s just delaying the problems.
I wasn’t planning to write a series on the analog to digital TV switchover, but every day I open the paper (yes, I still read the paper–random access, works on any platform, portable, scalable), I see a new story.
No Comments »It appears that the delay in the analog to digital broadcast conversion may have had one beneficial side effect.
According to the New York Times, there was a shortage of converter boxes in the stores. See the article here.
As near as I can tell, this had nothing whatsoever to do with the vote in Congress to delay the switchover . . .
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