Sunday, February 22, 2009

When do we go all digital

February 17, 2009 was the defined date to switch to digital TV by turning off the analog signals for all high power TV stations in the country. The recently passed DTV Delay Act postponed that date to June 12, 2009. However one of the provisions of the act was that TV stations had the option to turn off their analog signal at any time between Feb. 17th and June 12th. Approximately 39% of the stations will turn off their analog transmitters on Feb. 17th as originally planned. In the Bay Area, KOFY, channel 20 and KICU channel 36 have shut down the analog signal on Feb. 17th. All others will continue until June 12th.

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