368 Stations Can Pull Analog on Feb. 17
Broadcasting & Cable, February 12, 2009
By John Eggerton
The FCC has said that 368 TV stations will be allowed to pull the plug on analog Feb. 17, out of 491 that asked to do so. Of those 368, 100 said they planned to keep running their analog transmitters for at least two weeks past Feb. 17 for DTV and emergency information.
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