first Chicago TV channel to drop analog?

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From: David W. Tamkin
Date: Sat, 01 Mar 2008 06:32

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At 5 AM CST today, channel 48 is supposed to switch over from the ethnic
programming on WFBT to vintage television on WWME's kid sister WMEU.
Digital PSIP channel 26.3 already changed from WFBT for WMEU around Tuesday,
and WFBT's digital feed moved to PSIP channel 26.6.

So is WFBT going digital-only a full 11 1/2 months before the deadline? 
Surely that would make WFBT the first station in the Chicago area to become
digital-only after having had an analog feed?  Until now the only digital
stations around here that weren't receivable in analog were those that had
never been receivable here in analog.

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Subject: first Chicago TV channel to drop analog?
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