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DTV Switchover

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K6JHU

So the house has passed teh bill to delay the DTV switchover until June. San Diego (except, I believe, for Channel 6) is still going with the February date.

Does anybody know what the plan is going to be for Los Angeles? Do we alll switch in February, all wait until June, or some now and some later?
 
This is purely speculation but I think LA will stick to Feb 17th. Every station in the Southland is ready to go (including cheap-o KDOC). If KDOC can get their crap in order, any station in America can do the same. Last night (Feb 3rd) at around 7:30pm KCET powered down their analog signal for 15 minutes as part of a digital readiness test. All their instructional slides indicated the Feb 17th date as their Analog Sunset. Every other station in LA is still indicating Feb 17th as the cutoff as well.

KCOP, KTTV, and KCBS really really want to get off of their temporary high-end UHF assignments since they are burning the most juice keeping their DTV transmission lit. KCOP and KTTV want to settle their digital signals back on their traditional channels (13 and 11 respectively). KCAL will release RF-43 for KCBS to take over while KCAL goes back to 9.

All LA stations have filed their construction permits to increase digital power after the transition (something KCET desperately needs to do). All of that is in perpetual limbo until analog vacates the spectrum. Even more reason for broadcasters to get this transition over with.

Barring "The Big One" LA has no weather related events like hurricanes and twisters or even rain for that matter that would create a problem with keeping the public informed. The time has come and anyone who is still not digital ready after all the ads and information crawls in the past 18 months would probably benefit having to read a book for a change.
 
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