About 44% of the country’s TV stations aren’t going to wait for the national switch to digital television on June 12, instead dropping their analog broadcasting signals before the deadline.
Stations that wanted to switch before June 12 had to notify the Federal Communications Commission by today and the agency reported tonight that 158 additional stations have asked to switch early. Those 158 stations will join the 417 that switched on the original date of transition Feb. 17 and the 220 that switched earlier.
