TV Stations' Digital Conversion Confuses 700,000

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  1. Baack

    Baack Road Train Member

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    http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,526141,00.html
     
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  3. Peanut Butter

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    every tv station broadcast that after june 12th to rescan with the converter boxes. hmm guess not many people caught that.
     
  4. Baack

    Baack Road Train Member

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    Yeah like 50 billion spent advertising the conversation, and people still cant tie their shoe laces:biggrin_2552:
     
  5. Roadmedic

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    I receive the CBS feed from NY and LA.

    They have had numerous public service announcements concerning the upcoming conversion.

    However, I did see where they were also going to have to aim their units correctly.

    I am sure this is not what the others normally face.

    I am also one of those people that do not have a coversion box. I do not watch the local channels. In fact I cannot remember the last time, maybe 3 years ago. We have a dish and only chose the CBS feed when the local went digital and the signal would not reach us. I think it happened 4 years ago.
     
  6. Peanut Butter

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    Dish network cutoff local channels here, however if you had Direct TV you still had local channels, I heard on the news Dish Network wanted more money to keep local, but local channels said no,,
     
  7. dancnoone

    dancnoone "Village Idiot"

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    That's strange. I'm sure it had something to do with your local stations demanding more money. Which is often the case.

    I no longer have Dish, but they offered our local broadcast in both digital and analog. :D

    Of course, you couldn't tell the differance. Other than the fact they were differant channels.
     
  8. SuchatruckinLady

    SuchatruckinLady Light Load Member

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    Confused? More like lazy idiots.
     
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  9. Markk9

    Markk9 "On your mark"

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    Suchatruckinlady, you are so right, the last of the dumb uninformed idiots.

    They have only been talking about this for what 3 years plus.

    Mark
     
  10. kajidono

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    Are the retarded commercials for this stupidity finally over now?
     
  11. otherhalftw

    otherhalftw R.I.P.

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    Isn't that 700k, the number of viewers to Letterman for the month?
     
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