[Dallas59]

Well...I was ready....DirecTV.

2.8 million people isn't much compared with the rest of the country. Me thinks that alot of those "missing" coupons went to food, booze, drugs and other things...IMO.

[nmh]

How can so many people be so STUPID?

[AUJenn]

HOW is this difficult? Haven’t we been hearing about this for, oh I don’t know, over a year?!

[Electric Graffiti]

How many 911 calls?

LMAO

[Petronski]

So the Idiocracy already has 700,000 citizens.

[Clay Moore]

One of my part time jobs took me to an Assisted Living home on Friday. The switch and the “My TV isn’t working” was the prime topic of conversation.

[usconservative]

Nearly 700,000 calls were received by a federal hot line this week from people confused about the nationwide switch from analog to digital TV broadcasts that occurred Friday.

Great, now I suppose everyone's gonna have to switch back until these idiots can figure it out. They've only had a year and an extension already ......

[acoulterfan]

“The largest volume of calls came from the Chicago area, followed by Dallas-Ft. Worth, New York, Philadelphia and Baltimore.”....LOL!!!!!

[FlingWingFlyer]

These are the same 700,000 rocket scientists who tell the pollsters that “global warming” exists, Obama is doing an excellent job with the economy and that we are losing the WOT.

[RegulatorCountry]

I dropped cable years ago, and have relied on broadcast ever since. I just use it for background white noise anyway, not many shows interest me all that much. I’m sitting here right now with the stupid public service thing playing over and over, on the only channel that still picks up, starts out with stupid electronica Muzak, then the dweeb with the nervous tic, then en Espaniol, wash, rinse repeat.

I guess I’ll break down and hook up the infernal box that’s been laying on a shelf for a year, after this last signal dies, lol. I’m getting some sort of weird satisfaction, watching it go, myself.

[InABunkerUnderSF]

Unfortunately sticking a satellite dish out the apartment window isn’t an option where I live and TV isn’t worth the $500 a year to me.

I’ve lost the local ABC affiliate for some reason and have gained about two dozen junk channels - 8 PBS channels including one that seems to play nothing but jazz videos, six Spanish language channels, a PC looking cartoon channel and a lot of other junk most of which seems to be in Korean.

[Vinnie]

I bought the converter for the 1 TV I have that’s not on cable.

Made a 4 bowtie uhf antenna. Tested it some weeks ago and got wonderful reception.

Yesterday I turned on the set after the switch and zonk!

A few stations are passable but one in particular, the CBS affiliate is ‘no program’ or ‘weak signal’.

[Doe Eyes]

Do this have something to do with my TV no longer working?

[CodeToad]

MOnths and months of advertising. Not a single person can say they didn’t know. Well, I guess the stupid Obama voter types didn’t.

[puppypusher]

These 700,000 Idiots don't have a right to watch T.V.especially after being warned for a year and a half that regular broadcast would end.If their T.V.’s are blank that's their problem.

The taxpayers should not be jumping through hoops to placate these dummies.

[Lockbar]

85% of those calling are members of ACORN.

[taillightchaser]

700,000 zero voters.

[Signalman]

These are the people who cannot make it in life without the Nanny State holding their hand and guiding them the whole way. They are the base of the Democratic Party.

[TexasCajun]

I particularly liked my local ABC station's effort in posting help numbers and website info to those who just lost their analog signal.

Like, uh maybe, like they can't see the picture now? ...like really, how dumb.

[RichInOC]

AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!

[The Electrician]

This is an opportunity in disguise (if anybody is willing to put in the effort to capitalize on it) - just convince these Obama voters who were too feeble-minded to get their act together with the DTV switch that it's Obama's fault that they can't get their TV shows anymore.

"Can't get TV anymore? Blame Obama" and "Obama broke your TV" bumper stickers (or even billboards, for that matter) might just raise Obama's "negatives" by a point or three...

That is, assuming that a substantial number of these folks can actually read...