Sorry, Congress, We're Not Delaying Digital TV
From our colleagues at TV Decoder:
“The next four months may prove to be a rolling transition for the nation’s estimated 1,700 local TV stations,” The New York Times reported last week. Now the Federal Communications Commission is confirming that, as expected, the digital TV switch will occur as scheduled for hundreds of stations.
According to the FCC, almost 500 local stations have indicated that they will start broadcasting solely in digital next Tuesday, the date of the original digital TV transition. Already, 190 stations — including the entire state of Hawaii — have turned off their analog signals. Most stations are broadcasting in both formats until the deadline.
Legislation passed by Congress last week allowed stations to broadcast in analog form until June 12, a four-month extension of the original deadline. The legislation permitted some stations to turn off their analog signals before June, meaning that some stations in a given market will be switching before others. Read more…
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