Some TV Stations Don't Care What The FCC Has to Say
As we all know, the DTV Trasition was lengthened to June 12 instead of the Preposed February 17, 2009. some Tv stations, such as our very own WBOC, have decided that they are not going to wait.
The new law allows TV stations to get permission from the FCC, the TV licensing agency, to turn off their analog channels before June 12, and the FCC says that, of the 1796 TV stations that must complete the switch to digital, 379 stations are already digital-only or will be by Feb. 17. Plus, up to another 700 stations could “safely” go all-digital before June 12. (TV viewers will have to watch for messages from their local stations to see when those stations will turn off their analog channels. In some TV viewing areas, all the local stations may turn off analog channels on the same day; in other areas, TV stations might do analog channel shutoffs on different dates.)
for more information on the delay, visit CNET News’s article: http://go.cosmicthings.com/cnet/dtvextended/
