Boston TV stations team up for educational 'DTV Day'

by Darren Murph, posted Dec 2nd 2008 at 4:10PM

As the US analog shutoff draws inevitably closer, we have all ideas that we'll be seeing quite a few other major markets making major pushes to get the word out. The next in line is Boston, where all of the local television stations and cable providers have teamed up to "help viewers prepare for the federally mandated shutdown of full-power television analog signals and the transition to digital television (DTV) on February 17, 2009." The so-called 'DTV Day' will take place a week from today from 5:00AM to 7:30PM ET, and during that window, locals will see intermittent daylong crawls on all outlets promoting DTV information, daylong, uninterrupted DTV information on a single, destination station (WGBH-TV analog) and a trio of two-minute "Virtual Shutdown" readiness tests. Talk about serious -- we didn't even prepare for Y2K like this.

[Image courtesy of Brandeis]

Filed under: Industry, Regulatory, Tuners, OTA

Tags: 2009, analog shutoff, AnalogShutoff, Boston, cutover, digital tv, digital tv transition, DigitalTv, DigitalTvTransition, dtv, DTV Day, dtv transition, DtvDay, DtvTransition, Massachusetts, switchover

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GhostDoggy @ Dec 3rd 2008 6:55AM

The DTV transition should be used as a vehicle for natural selection. Very few (thin minority) are using analog OTA exclusively. They should have known this day was coming when the FCC adopted the ATSC specification in 1995-96. Its been an more than a decade and lazy American couch potatoes (those strictly on analog OTA) can eat crow or join the rest of civilization or tap out on this luxury (tv is not a necessity).

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??? @ Jan 9th 2009 11:39PM

Yeah, much like using a computer, let alone one with a subscription internet service (most likely broadband) to make such a arrogant and dipshitty remark is a luxury. Clearly, there are no uncivilized coots around you, asshole.

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