EDIT/UPDATE 4:45pm 5/21: 3 more notes about the 7:30pm(which is a question mark for Dayton, see note 3 below) test.
1) The reason tonight's test will go at 7:30 here is because FOX19 has their evening news at 6:30, when some cities have decided to do the soft test this evening. And of course, they don't want to interfere with the sweeps...
2) Stations that won't participate: WCVN/54 Covington (and the rest of the KET Kentucky Educational Television network, including WKON/52 Owenton, Kentucky), WPTD/16 Dayton, WPTO/14 Oxford, and WCET/48 Cincinnati. All of these have already shut down analog signals and are already digital-only.
3) We don't know about Dayton for this evening. Are they going at 6:30 (which would interfere with the FOX45 news), or waiting til 7:30 like Cincinnati? Let us know by email at tristatemediawatch@gmail.com.
There is news today on a soft test of the analog shutoff nationally today.
This report from MSNBC has the details. TV stations nationally are to shut off their analog transmitters 3 times today, two of which already happened at 7:30am and 12:30pm. The final test is at 7:30 this evening.
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WHIO-7 did go with its test as advertised at 6:30 PM last night; I didn't check the other Dayton stations at that time, though. I can say that NO Dayton/Springfield stations aired the DTV test at the later time, because I specifically checked all of them at the same time Cincinnati's 4 network stations ran their test at 7:30 PM.
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