The Switch

[Thousandaire]

One station in my area (CBS) made the digital switch today. No one else did. Fortunately it's not the one that carries millionaire and Jeopardy (that's the station Dish Network is refusing to carry so I have to watch it on my analog TV).

Of course I think making the switch early is totally bogus, as is Dish Network's fight with KATU. Bah humbug.

[MarleysGh0st]

Bah humbug.

Is that you, Ebenezer?

[ghostjmf]

Oh, the Fox network station in Boston (UHF 25) made "the switch" about 2 months ago, claiming "problems with our analog signal" when I complained. Problems, yeah, sure.

I wrote them a note back saying I wondered how their sponsors would like losing audience 2 months early. No reply, of course, except for the "problems with our signal" form letter again.

[silvercamaro]

One station in my area (CBS) made the digital switch today. No one else did. Fortunately it's not the one that carries millionaire and Jeopardy (that's the station Dish Network is refusing to carry so I have to watch it on my analog TV).

Of course I think making the switch early is totally bogus, as is Dish Network's fight with KATU. Bah humbug.

All the stations in Oklahoma City made the switch at 1 p.m. today. I'm not sure what happened in Tulsa.

[peacock2121]

My m-i-l said she was going to turn her TV off and on after 12:00 to see if she sees any difference.

She has Time Warner cable.

I said nothing.

[ghostjmf]

A number of itty-bitty cable-only "stations" (program providers is more like it; they probably have no physical plant to speak of) who put out analog signal specialty programs have disappeared from my sister's cable roster. Either these program providers don't want to digitize their programs (they'll never get them to look all that good in digital format, by HD standards; this holds for the the vast repository of filmed & videotaped media we have been used to watching up to now, by the way) or the "terms of agreement" with the cable provider weren't so good, or both reasons hold.

[hermillion]

All the stations in Oklahoma City made the switch at 1 p.m. today. I'm not sure what happened in Tulsa.

Tulsa stations also made the switch today. Rationale from one local station is that the later date came right during tornado season, and they wanted everyone to have made the switch -- and solved any technical problems -- before it became REALLY NECESSARY to have access to weather broadcasts.