🚀 go-pugleaf

David W. Tamkin <nobody@[127.0.0.1]> wrote:
> 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.

Well, I don't see why not, keep in mind the feds started sending out those
$40 coupons for the digital converters and a few models are available at the
big box stores.

With the cheap hardware being available now, makes sense to me that some of
the low rent stations will go digital only as soon as possible. The big boys
(wbbm, wmaq, wls) will probably leave analog on to the last possible second.

-bruce
bje@ripco.com