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Are there any analogue TV stations left?

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Hi again folks, it's been a while.

A simple question. Are there any analogue TV stations left in the USA or Canada, as of right now? I do know they were granted an extension after the initial analogue switch off, but I don't seem to recall hearing anything more since, and Wikipedia wasn't very helpful either.

What's the current position?
 
Translators are really the only ones that are still analog. Here in MN we have 2 big examples

ABC (KSTP) owns 6 translators that are still analog...inluding the ones in Brainerd and Bemidji which are 2 big towns in the Minneapolis market (but way in the northern part)
FOX KQDS Duluth has 8 owned translators...all are analog

Where I use to live (Aitkin,MN) our ABC & FOX are still analog (the 2 examples)

the oddest one is Selective TV in Alexandria, MN. They are a co-op that years ago use to broadcast cable stations. They still do but not like they use to (mainly its now the lesser diginets like TuffTV, Newsmax, BizTV) but they still have 2 analog stations. 18 which rebroadcasts ABC (which is kinda redundant as there is a ABC digital in the area) and 51 which last I saw (a year ago) was broadcasting C-Span.

As for Canada its mainly the non owned and operated stations. Canada required major cities to upgrade to digital but not all of them. So in some areas you still have a mix of analog and digital or in some cases all analog
Global upgraded some of their stations to digital (mainly in larger cities) but CTV has not yet. So as example in Sault St Marie, MI the CTV and CHCH broadcasters are analog but Global and the US nets are digital
 
FreddyE1977 said:
Yeah, that probably covers the eastern U.P as far as maybe Munising.
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And has surprisingly little cable carriage (only in St. Ignace; not carried in Soo Michigan despite St. Ignace and Soo Michigan having the same cable provider and basically the same lineup [the only other difference is in PBS members])
 
Groove1670 said:
Franken FM!
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There's still one of those in Memphis on channel 6 that is used to rebroadcast WHBQ AM 560 (Sports talk), so in effect it's being used as another translator. I guess they'll keep going in analog until the FCC finally makes them either convert to digital or shut down, but that keeps being extended out.
 
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