CET/ThinkTV Drop Analog

The latest dominoes have fallen in the slow switch to DTV locally.

Late last night, WCET/48, WPTO/14 and WPTD/16 all switched to digital-only broadcasts. (We can verify WCET and WPTO, as we get both here at TSMW HQ.) Taken with WCVN/54 and WKON/52 switching with the rest of KET 2 weeks ago, this means the only way to watch PBS programming is through DTV, cable or satellite. We're not hearing of a major increase in call volume to CET/ThinkTV, only up to 6 at CET, while only 26 people called ThinkTV.

A note to our readers using the converter boxes, or who have Digital Televisions that don't need converters, and one you will hear often repeated the next few months as more stations drop analog.

RESCAN, RESCAN, RESCAN! (Yes, it's all caps, but we wanted to emphasize the point.)

WPTD/16 went from their old channel allocation of 58 to digital 16 with the switch, flashcutting the analog to digital in the process. So, if you'd been picking up 16 on digital 58, you MUST rescan to get it back on digital 16.

We are working on another post, but that will have to wait until tomorrow morning...we're dead tired, and can't sit at this keyboard anymore...