Wednesday, February 11, 2009

DTV Delay Signed by Obama

The most interesting thing about President Obama today signing legislation to delay the digital TV transition from Feb. 17th to June 12th is that something in the neighborhood of 500 local broadcast stations nationwide have already said that they plan to proceed with their own DTV transitions next Thursday as originally mandated by law. Apparently they need FCC approval for this but we could very soon be in a patchwork situation where a large percentage of the country's TV stations require a digital converter to view while others wait until June.

Here in San Diego, four of the five major local broadcasters want to transition to DTV next week while the lone holdout for June is the NBC affiliate.

What a mess!

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