TBN's WKOI, Lexington's WKYT, and KET fade into analog sunset

We've got a couple quick DTV items...

We're hearing that WKOI 43/Richmond is now moved to its DTV facility. Rich Emery tells Ohio Digital TV (a sub-blog of our friends at Ohio Media Watch) that he watched that happen at *precisely* 11:59 pm last night.

Also, WCVN 54/Covington and WKON 52/Owenton have both switched, along with the entire KET network. (KET stands for Kentucky Educational Television.) We independently confirmed that this morning during our morning TV viewing.

And last, WKYT 27/Lexington also transitioned yesterday and we can independently confirm this as well by viewing them on Insight Cable channel 6 right now.

DTV Readiness Update...Only Up Slightly?

Rich Emery sent us this one...

According to Nielsen, only 610,000 homes became DTV-ready this past month, after the FCC and Congress extended the switch deadline to June 12!

That means 3.8 MILLION homes are still not ready for the switch. That's mind-boggling to us.

Considering that Congress approved billions more dollars in DTV Coupons, there shouldn't be this many people who aren't ready to switch. Could it be that perhaps some people just don't know how to get the coupons? Or are TV stations not doing enough to help?

Whatever the reason, as of this writing, 3.8 million people are still not ready for the switch, with just over 2 months to go until it happens...