Last week or so, congress pushed the "deadline" for over-the-air stations to cut their analog broadcast from February to June.
As i almost predicted... abc will benefit from pushing back their cutoff as long as possible and quickly announced they will not cut their analog signal until june. In fact, february 17th came and went and NOBODY in birmingham cut their signal. I think the benefit stations would gain from tearing down the analog tower and money they would gain from not broadcasting the analog signal is far outweighed by the advertising dollars made from having people actually being able to watch the tv station. when it comes right down to it, viewers are kind of what makes tv work.
Lost? see this previous blog entry. Notice in the update that James Spann responded to a tweet inquiring about abc 33/40s signal, which i insist will be lost in most of birmingham when the cut off occurs.
i wonder if other cities are in the same boat... i guess i should check on that.
