Posted on 06/06/2009 12:15:09 PM PDT by re_tail20
Millions of households will lose television reception next week when about 1,000 broadcasters around the nation shut off their analog signals and complete their conversion to digital programming, federal officials say.
The government has spent more than $2 billion to ease the transition to digital television, and in the last few months has cut in half the number of households that are unprepared for the final conversion on June 12. But the latest survey by the Nielsen Company indicates that as of the end of May, more than 10 percent of the 114 million households that have television sets are either completely or partly unprepared.
Michael J. Copps, the acting head of the Federal Communications Commission, said that the people most likely to lose reception are society’s most vulnerable — lower-income families, the elderly, the handicapped and homes where little or no English is spoken. The transition will also hit inner-city and rural areas hardest, he said.
“We are much better prepared than we were in February, when the original transition was to have occurred, but there will nonetheless be significant disruptions,” Mr. Copps said in an interview. “In the past five months we’ve tried to accomplish what should have been done over the last four years.”
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* PUKE *
This must not... it can not happen! That is 10 million Obama voters who aren't getting daily marching orders from the WH... /sarc
Women and children hit hardest!
Let’s extend the deadline another 6 months, so they will be better prepared.
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Oh my God! Blank tv screens! Millions of them! Torture on a massive scale!
They have been warned FOR YEARS!!!!!
There are very important uses for the “fat” saturated band that VHF occupies. And no reason not to get the set top devices (I even got a couple, just in case although I have satellite), even for grandma and grandpa.
Those most affected by the switch will seek immediate solutions from dear leader.
In retrospect, I should have put an “NYT Barf Alert” on this post.
boohoo
let ‘em watch cake.....(on the food network)
well there goes my garage tv
Oh for cryin’ out loud.
What a load of garbage.
Damn. You beat me to it
They’ll get all the dope & chains they need.
Michael J. Copps, the acting head of the Federal Communications Commission, said that the people most likely to lose reception are society’s most vulnerable — lower-income families, the elderly, the handicapped and homes where little or no English is spoken. The transition will also hit inner-city and rural areas hardest, he said.
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If they keep delaying the switch by a few months, the newspapers can just keep dusting off this article and run it again every time the deadline approaches.
But you are still a cool person like me... :)
Sad but probably true and they’ll get their wish.....Free cable to all those who failed to get off their fat asses for the last two years and get a converter box. So sez Ogabe.
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