Today is the deadline, set by the federal government, for the nation’s broadcasters to switch their TV signals from analog to digital. Josh Smith (anchor of News Channel 11 Morning Edition and News Channel 11 at Noon) says:
It’s finally here – DTV switch day on News Channel 11 Connects. Be sure to watch at noon. Haynes Lancaster, WJHL’s founding general manager, had just turned on our analog transmitter on 10/26/1953 when this photo was taken. Today, he’ll be in the studio to shut down analog and fire up the digital transmitter. Watch it happen live starting around 12:25pm. A bit of local TV history in the making. See you then.
According to the Federal Communications Commission there are still 2.2 million households which have made no preparations for the switch. This means we can probably hit the local internet hang-outs at 12:30 to watch folks in our viewing area go bonkers because they’re missing the Young and the Restless.
(Tip: Full episodes of most CBS shows can be viewed on the net – unless you have dial-up, in which case streaming video is impossible and you’d be better off acting out your own version of Survivor.)
Does this mean that interweb thingy might go bonkers?
switching over to digital TV is like pulling off a band-aid… just do it and get it over with