ProButtonPusher 230 Posted February 11, 2009 Share Posted February 11, 2009 We are pushing our date back to early April due to restrictions the FCC put on us (if we did the switch on Feb 17th our digital signal couldn't be at full strength) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
who?cares 253 Posted February 11, 2009 Share Posted February 11, 2009 WISH is saying they will not on the 17th, but they also said it maybe sooner than the 12the of June. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyrannical bastard 3496 Posted February 11, 2009 Share Posted February 11, 2009 In addition to WEAR, WKRG, WALA/WBPG, WPMI/WJTC, WSRE and WEIQ (and the rest of APT) are making the switch on the 17th in the Mobile-Pensacola area. It looks like WHBR (Religious programming) has already signed off analog. WFGX will sign off their weak analog signal and start constructing a digital facility on WEAR's old analog site that can finally reach Mobile...finally giving us MyNetwork TV programming. No word on what WMPV (TBN) or WPAN (infomercials) will do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tw-804 190 Posted February 11, 2009 Share Posted February 11, 2009 WRLH-35 (FOX Richmond) is making the switch to digital on the 17th. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoadStar 363 Posted February 11, 2009 Share Posted February 11, 2009 In Milwaukee, only WVCY (Religious/VCY America), WVTV (CW/Sinclair) and WCGV (MyNet/Sinclair) are going all digital on 2/17. Everyone else is staying on in analog through June. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sg9018 10 Posted February 11, 2009 Share Posted February 11, 2009 According to the Detroit Free Press, http://www.freep.com/article/20090211/ENT03/90211020 4 stations in Michigan to end analog next week WMYD, Detroit WPXD, Ann Arbor WBKB-TV,Alpena WILX-TV,Lansing The story also says that San Diego will be the largest city to lose analog broadcasts of three networks: CBS, ABC and Fox. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caliwxdude 252 Posted February 11, 2009 Share Posted February 11, 2009 The story also says that San Diego will be the largest city to lose analog broadcasts of three networks: CBS, ABC and Fox. KFMB-DT has been operating at extremely low power on Channel 7 for almost a year now, and directing much of that limited signal to the south to protect KABC-TV from Mount Wilson. As a result, a vast majority of OTA digital viewers north of Encinitas can't receive KFMB-DT even with an outdoor antenna. The FCC granted KFMB an experimental license to operate the ATSC signal on Channel 7 which expires on February 17, so they were pretty much stuck with the February 17 date when the ATSC signal will switch to full power on Channel 8. KFMB-DT originally broadcast on Channel 55, but they sold the spectrum to San Diego-based Qualcomm for the development of their MediaFLO mobile TV service. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyrannical bastard 3496 Posted February 11, 2009 Share Posted February 11, 2009 The FCC has posted two lists of stations dumping analog on the 17th on their website. Exhibit A has a list of stations that have stopped analog service and those that will stop analog service on the 17th, sorted by DMA (including ones with nightlight service). Exhibit B lists all stations by DMA and indicates in red which stations have stopped and will stop analog broadcasting on the 17th (as well as nightlight service). Unless a station has analog transmitter failure, and are not listed to go off on the 17th, they're most likely SOL if they want to stop analog broadcasting on the 17th. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevieboy247 42 Posted February 13, 2009 Share Posted February 13, 2009 Brian Roche at News 8 @ 5:30 announced that EVERY television station in market #41 will wait til June. Even WGAL. How sad. -- matt Well Matt, I just found out that WLYH (CW 15) and WITF (PBS) will be the only stations in Central PA that will be converting to Digital on February 17th, instead of June. You can find out more right here. http://yorkdispatch.inyork.com/yd/local/ci_11688700 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyrannical bastard 3496 Posted February 13, 2009 Share Posted February 13, 2009 Well....back to plan B for Pensacola's WEAR and Mobile's WKRG. They will keep analog broadcasts until June. I can't believe how the FCC has royally screwed up this transition. I wouldn't be surprised to see the number of "accidental" analog transmitter failures over the next few months. Think "The Pepsi Syndrome"... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seriouslythough 0 Posted February 13, 2009 Share Posted February 13, 2009 According to http://www.miamiherald.com/business/story/898010.html the only stations in Miami/Fort Lauderdale area switching are WSBS (an independent Spanish language station) and WPXM (Ion affiliate). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mre29 1347 Posted February 14, 2009 Share Posted February 14, 2009 I can't believe how the FCC has royally screwed up this transition. I wouldn't be surprised to see the number of "accidental" analog transmitter failures over the next few months. I'm wondering how long it'll be before the lawsuits start flying. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ib-td 1 Posted February 14, 2009 Share Posted February 14, 2009 I'm wondering how long it'll be before the lawsuits start flying. lawsuits for what, ota television is not a law, it is not per-se a right - people have had a long time to prep for this change Several stations have already made that proverbial change of life. GOOD. Here in FL, no it is not too smart to make the switch during hurricane season. I could see where people may have a bitch at that point. - So the answer is/was to do it now. The greatest catalyst for people to make whatever upgrades they need would be when they don't get to see blah or blah. Better to do it then, then at a point when a storm or tornado may be looming. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geoffrey 779 Posted February 16, 2009 Share Posted February 16, 2009 In case we don't have enough confusion, the newspapers are lying to us. Or at least Newsday did. My grandma told me about this over the weekend but I didn't really believe her. She was right. Last Thursday, Newsday ran a story from The Washington Post headlined "Many to go digital soon"... It claimed that the major NY stations would go all digital tomorrow. The next day, the paper ran another story that buried the admission that Newsday was incorrect. Newsday, by the way, is owned by Cablevision. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PitCleTV 9 Posted February 17, 2009 Share Posted February 17, 2009 Jesus Christ! This whole switchover is such a pain for everyone! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bsean 138 Posted February 17, 2009 Share Posted February 17, 2009 Jesus Christ! This whole switchover is such a pain for everyone! It's not a pain for those who have been listening for the past two years. And on top of that, there were multiple solutions to solve this problem. People are acting like they just heard about it last week. If people are this unprepared for something as simple as this, how can people be ready for greater disasters? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ib-td 1 Posted February 17, 2009 Share Posted February 17, 2009 In case we don't have enough confusion, the newspapers are lying to us. Or at least Newsday did. My grandma told me about this over the weekend but I didn't really believe her. She was right. Last Thursday, Newsday ran a story from The Washington Post headlined "Many to go digital soon"... It claimed that the major NY stations would go all digital tomorrow. The next day, the paper ran another story that buried the admission that Newsday was incorrect. Newsday, by the way, is owned by Cablevision. and Dewey was voted as president according to the print media Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
susquvalleywgal 497 Posted February 17, 2009 Author Share Posted February 17, 2009 Well Matt, I just found out that WLYH (CW 15) and WITF (PBS) will be the only stations in Central PA that will be converting to Digital on February 17th, instead of June. You can find out more right here. http://yorkdispatch.inyork.com/yd/local/ci_11688700 I am glad I re-checked this thread because I was going to do an update. Thanks. WITF shut their analog at midnight, and I think that WLYH is waiting til later tonight to do it. At least it's not all that bad around here. -- Matt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
qunewsguy 376 Posted February 18, 2009 Share Posted February 18, 2009 THE WORLD'S GONNA END!!!!! Oh wait... it's just little old WWLP in Springfield, MA getting ready for their DTV transition tonight at 11:35. A half hour phone-in special featuring 90-year olds in mountain towns complaining about how 22 doesn't care about them anymore at 3:00 p.m and another replacing their 5:30 newscast, DTV PSA's in every commercial break all day long, and a persistent crawl during programming all night long. God they're annoying. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SFTV 486 Posted February 18, 2009 Share Posted February 18, 2009 and a persistent crawl during programming all night long. God they're annoying. KFMB apologized on the air saying that "we have been getting complaints about the crawl interfering your favorite CBS 8 Primetime shows but its mandatory that we have to do it by the FCC." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PelicanGuy 117 Posted February 18, 2009 Share Posted February 18, 2009 Lil' old WABG in Greenwood, Miss. has shut off their analog signal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TennTV1983 756 Posted February 18, 2009 Share Posted February 18, 2009 The Nashville triopoly that is WZTV/WUXP/WNAB shut off their analog signals as of 11:59:59PM last night. In their places is a 3-to-4-minute infomercial on DTV that will basically run in loop for the next two weeks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PelicanGuy 117 Posted February 19, 2009 Share Posted February 19, 2009 WRDW, WJBF and WAGT in Augusta, Ga. have made the switch, in addition to Georgia Public Broadcasting and South Carolina ETV. http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/2009/02/18/met_511855.shtml Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ColumbusNewsFan 217 Posted February 19, 2009 Share Posted February 19, 2009 WTTE (FOX) and WWHO (The CW) has made the switch in Columbus,OH. It's looks like all of Sinclair's FOX stations are broadcasting exclusively in Digital because WPGH switch as well on Tuesday. I have to do a little research to check if I am right in saying that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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