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Friday July 31, 2009
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Remember the DTV transition? About a month-and-a-half after all TV broadcast stations switched from analog to digital signals, the majority of Americans have now gotten their acts together, according to Nielsen.
About 98.9 percent of U.S. households have now taken action to receive digital signals, putting the number of unprepapred households at 1.1 percent. That is down from 2.5 percent just days before the June 12 transition.
About 229,000 homes in the last two weeks and 1.3 million homes since the week of the June 12 DTV transition have made the effort to get a digital TV, a converter box, or subscribe to cable or satellite TV.
Broken down by race, African-Americans remain the least prepared, with about 2.2 percent of households without service. They are followed by Hispanics at 1.6 percent, Asians at 1.3 percent, and whites at 0.8 percent.
About 2.7 percent of people under 35 have not made the switch, but only 0.4 percent of those over 55 are unprepared.
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July 31, 2009 7:45 PM
you forgot about low power TV stations.we can still pick up telemundo and TBN on analog in savannah georgia.telemundo is broadcasting in both digital and analog in savanna.
July 31, 2009 9:21 PM
When are the stations going to fix the problems of picture and sound hesitation for those without cable or dish.
August 1, 2009 12:31 PM
I THINK IT WAS O K FOR DISH AND CABLE. WITH HE RABBIT EARS NOT WORTH IT. I CANNOT GET ANY STATIONS WITH THE CONVERTER BOX.
August 2, 2009 8:01 PM
what about all the people in rural areas the only way they can get TV now is to pay for it thru Directv or Dish network it has put those individuals most who dont have much money without TV as well as those who are elderly and on a fixed income but i guess those people dont matter