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Digital TV - the future arrives Monday in North Carolina
By Carl Hoover
| Sunday, September 7, 2008, 10:53 PM
In a matter of hours (at 11 a.m. CST), the television stations serving Wilmington, North Carolina, will flip the switch to kill their analog signals and begin broadcasting solely in digital. Waco and the rest of the nation follow this coming February, but the Federal Communications Commission worked hard for a test market to iron out any kinks before the national transition.
Wilmington is a smaller market than Waco, ranking 134th (Waco-Temple-Killeen is 94th), and it’s estimated that about slightly less than 10 percent of the TV viewers there receive only an analog over-the-air signal. Will studio switchboards light up with astonished, angry viewers shocked, shocked that their favorite programs have turned into static? Will big box and electronics stores face a run on converter boxes? Will those viewers decide that maybe television isn’t an essential part of their lives after all? Those answers may come this week in Wilmington.
It’s been interesting to see the high level of congressional concern over the transition in recent months. So much so that you’d think Congressmen/-women’s jobs depend on voters’ access to television or something …
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