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[Adam]

I turned on my 1970 Zenith b/w 23" metal cabinet (14NC22 chassis) to see what I would get with the antenna. First I found buzzing in the sound that didn't belong. I've had that set for 7 years and it never needed a single repair ... until now. Anyway, what I did get was some message on ch 2 and 4 about programming a converter box. (And ch 4 must have reduced it's power - it used to come in much better) There seems to still be regular programming on ch 6 and 9. Nothing on the other vhf stations. I know we used to have a ch 13 and a ch 5 and a ch 7, now I get nothing but static on them. (I haven't really lived here long enough to memorize all the stations, what they are and where they're from.) I didn't look at uhf.

[wa2ise]

looks like stations that intend to keep their analog channel for digital have been pulling the switch early today, so as to give their engineers time to swap out antenna connections from the analog transmitter to the new digital transmitter set up on the analog TV channel. In NYC, channels 7, 11 and 13 are taking back their analog assignments and placing their digital signals on their old analog assignment. There's one case where a digital channel 33 is being handed off from one broadcaster channel 11 to another, channel 2. Wouldn't be surprised that that all that needed to be done for that was to change the baseband digital data stream feed from one station's studio to the other station's studio. And using the same transmitter and antenna. "Channel 11" becomes "channel 2". I suppose tonight, if you didn't rescan your box, and you punch in "11", you'll see "channel 2", and not channel 11.

Over at a New York City radio station listener forum, there are DTV reception reports: http://www.musicradio77.com/wwwboard/

[jimbofish]

Here in the Traverse City area, we currently have one analog station still broadcasting until 11:30pm to ensure that we all will be able to watch Game 7 of the Stanley Cup Finals. Other than that, there are NO digital OR analog stations on the air!

Seems they all shut down their existing DTV signals first, then the analog, and we are STILL waiting for the digital to come back. Promised deadlines have come and gone... with only new estimates that come and go.

So much for a seamless transition!