You're welcome, Rosella. Actually we do still have a low power station or two
here, but the rest of them are gone. - the living Landis fan

--- In The_Carolers@yahoogroups.com, hsdrjd2@... wrote:
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> Thanks for passing this on Benny.
>
> Rosella
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> On Fri, 12 Jun 2009 12:57:40 -0000 "Benny Drinnon"
> <bennydrinnon@...> writes:
> > From the yahoo home page:
> >
> >
> > Confusion expected as analog TV broadcasts end (AP)
> > NEW YORK - More than 2 million households are in danger of seeing
> > their major broadcast TV channels disappear into a fuzz of static
> > when analog service ends Friday, according to surveys.
> >
> > That is nearly half the number that were unready in February, when
> > most analog TV broadcasts were originally scheduled to be turned
> > off. The shutdown was delayed for four months at the behest of the
> > Obama administration.
> >
> > Research firm SmithGeiger LLC said Thursday that about 2.2 million
> > households were still unprepared around the beginning of June.
> > Sponsored by the National Association of Broadcasters, it surveyed
> > 948 households that relied on antennas and found that 1 in 8 had not
> > connected a digital TV or digital converter box.
> >
> > Nielsen Co., which measures TV ratings with the help of a wide panel
> > of households, put the number of unready homes at 2.8 million, or
> > 2.5 percent of the total television market, as of Sunday. In
> > February, the number was 5.8 million.
> >
> > "We know some viewers will wait until the very last minute, or even
> > after June 12, until they take action," said Paul Karpowicz, second
> > vice chair of the television board of the NAB.
> >
> > Requests for $40 converter box coupons from the government have
> > spiked this week, according the to the Department of Commerce. On
> > Monday alone, it received requests for 179,000 coupons, nearly twice
> > the daily rate it saw a month ago. However, those coupons won't get
> > to viewers by Friday. It takes nine business days. Without the
> > government discount, converter boxes generally cost between $40 and
> > $60.
> >
> > Nielsen said minority households are less likely to be prepared, as
> > are households consisting of people under age 35. Households with
> > people older than 55 are far more likely to be prepared than the
> > average.
> >
> > The Albuquerque-Santa Fe area continues to be the nation's least
> > ready market in the Nielsen survey, with 7.6 percent of TV
> > households still unprepared.
> >
> > Nielsen does not survey Puerto Rico, which is also believed to have
> > many unready households. Both the Caribbean island and New Mexico
> > have relatively few households connected to cable. Households that
> > have all their sets connected to cable or satellite service are
> > unaffected by the analog broadcast shutdown.
> >
> > Both the Nielsen and SmithGeiger surveys count households as
> > unprepared even if they have taken some steps toward getting digital
> > signals, like ordering a converter box coupon.
> >
> > Stations will start cutting their analog signals Friday morning, but
> > many will wait until the evening. Nearly half of all U.S. stations
> > have already ended analog transmissions, though most big-city
> > stations have held off until Friday.
> >
> >
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