![]() ![]() "That's kind of causing some last-minute jitters in a lot of people," Pietras said. Like most stations, WUPW has been broadcasting digitally for years, alongside analog. By 10:15 a.m., the station's four-person phone bank had received 40 calls.Ĭhief engineer Steve Pietras said many callers had put off hooking up their converter boxes because they thought that digital broadcasting did not start until yesterday. TV stations, electronics stores and the government said most of the calls they received yesterday were from people who had converter boxes but needed help setting them up.įox affiliate WUPW in Toledo, Ohio, cut its signal at 8 a.m., making it one of the first stations to go. Then, at noon, the station showed an engineer pushing a red button to shut off the analog broadcast. newscast concluded with the signoff used when the station was a part of the old DuMont Broadcasting Network - playing "The Star-Spangled Banner," followed by a test signal. ![]() That means the full effect of the shutdown will not be apparent until this weekend.Īt WTTG, a Fox affiliate in Washington, the 11 a.m. TV stations were free to choose when in the day to cut their signals, and many were holding off until late at night. said poor and minority households were less likely to be prepared for yesterday's analog shutdown, as were households consisting of people younger than 35. ![]() Any set hooked up to cable or a satellite dish is unaffected by the end of analog broadcasts, but around 17 million U.S. ![]()
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