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Originally Posted by DeltAlum
I don't doubt that a lot of people aren't aware of this, but if it's so they've just not being paying attention.
The conversion to digital has been put off by the FCC and Congress for years. Literally.
When the decision was made to go ahead, something like seven more years became the target date if I recall correctly.
Nothing new here, just an impending deadline.
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DA;
You are in the media; I would be very surprised if you did not know about this.
"Still, half of American viewers don’t know the storm is coming, according to a poll conducted last month by the Cable & Telecommunications Association for Marketing. For the 1 in 5 American households that still use rabbit ears or antennas on the roof, “the day of reckoning is coming,” said Barry Umansky, a communications professor at Ball State University in Muncie, Ind. "
"The Federal Communications Commission first ordered the eventual transition in 1996, but Congress didn’t set a deadline until the the 9/11 Commission reported that first-responder systems needed a major upgrade."
And I, for one, did not know about the rest of the devices that this impacts on.