491 Stations Plan to Go Digital Feb. 17, FCC Links and More in First 2 Posts

**dfergie** · 02-12-2009 08:07 AM

Originally Posted by Yes616

So is it June 12 or June 17? I suspect the 12th but I was looking at what is says in the first post and the home page.

The 17th date is from the Tv Week article... I'm thinking the 12th also...changed...

**Geronimo** · 02-12-2009 08:43 AM

Actually the TV Week article says June 12 as well. Perhaps they originally had the wrong date and have now corrected it. But the correct date---for now----is June 12.

**rhdj** · 02-12-2009 08:45 AM

Great! My Fox affiliate will drag it's feet till the very end. We have no HD for Fox here in Corpus and from what I here the new Fox station whines about the transtion to anyone who will listen. Stuck with a sub par signal they give Dish (also TW). They were to hot cut since they are new to market so they will save money. HD/Digital has been around since the 80s yet it is 2009 and the U. S. still have not switched.

**dfergie** · 02-12-2009 11:23 AM

NM is not ready according to everything I've read... only one sub-station in the opposite corner of the state is going digital the 17th...

**dfergie** · 02-12-2009 11:31 AM

FCC Okays 368 To Make Feb. 17 DTV Switch

Another 123 Can't Make Switch Unless Certain Conditions Met

Source And More:
Multichannel news

**sundude90** · 02-12-2009 11:41 AM

My local ABC affiliate in Bangor, Maine is switching on Feb 17. All the PBS Affiliates in the state have already switched back in Jan. All the others ware sticking it out until June 12th.

**dfergie** · 02-12-2009 11:46 AM

FCC Rejects 25% of TV Stations' Early DTV-Switch Applications

By Ira Teinowitz

The Federal Communications Commission late Wednesday rejected, at least temporarily, a quarter of the requests from the 491 TV stations that had asked to switch to digital-only signals on Feb. 17.
President Barack Obama earlier Wednesday signed legislation pushing back the national switch to June 12 from the original Feb. 17 date. Stations were given the option of applying to stick with the February date.

Source & More:
tvweek.com

**Ramy** · 02-12-2009 12:07 PM

This sucks big monkey balls.

**dfergie** · 02-13-2009 04:26 PM

Added an xls file provided by Directv to first post in this thread...

**truckracer** · 02-14-2009 10:43 PM

Dtv should have been standard a few years ago. Analog ghosting and snow did allow companies to sell a lot of interference filters and gimick devices. Digital makes some of that stuff obsolete.