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Bruce Esquibel <bje@e4500.ripco.com> wrote in <fqbqbk$6b7$1@e250.ripco.com>:

| 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.

Doesn't mean that their audience is already using them, nor any other way to
get the digital signal, especially considering that all the publicity for the
digital changeover has been in English or Spanish, and nearly all the
programming on WFBT is in Polish or Asian languages.

Regarding the converter boxes, though, so far I've seen only two around: an
Insignia model at Best Buy and a Magnavox model at Wal-Mart.  (My coupons
haven't arrived, so I've just downloaded their manuals but not bought
either.)

| 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.

Ironically, the really low-rent stations -- the low-power ones with -LP or
-CA on their call letters -- can keep broadcasting in analog.

| The big boys
| (wbbm, wmaq, wls) will probably leave analog on to the last possible second.

Absolutely.  A lot of viewers will do nothing and will be caught by surprise
by the changeover, so why give up some possible target eyes for the
commercials (or in public television's case, for the fundraising)?

-- 
David W. Tamkin

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