Wednesday, February 18, 2009
The Switch is Here
In Wichita, KWCH and KAKE officially turned off their analog signals and now are broadcasting solely in digital, while KSN will wait until the June deadline. When I heard that Pres. Obama was moving the deadline to June, I thought it was a little ridiculous. I thought there was plenty of warning and stations did a fine job educating the public ,even having tests for people to make sure they had things working. According to a Wichita Eagle article, KWCH and KAKE, had people calling all day with issues. It really surprises me. Meanwhile in the article, it mentions KSN, who delayed the shutdown had a relatively quiet day with phone calls. I guess in one sense, when they do switch in June, they'll probably not have the volume of calls the other two had, because everyone by then will definitely have their home systems worked out. -Hal
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President Obama delayed it because he didn't want to have to deal with these exact complaints while pushing this stimulus bill through. But he probably didn't think the stations themselves would do it anyway. More power to the stations the went forth with the transition. Yes, there are going to be complaints, but they could have delayed it another 5 years and there would still be those idiots who would complain because they were to lazy to comply.
Nice job by KSN in breaking the school official arrested for sex with a young student. It's shocking that it was that high-ranking of an official.
Also, nice job by KAKE in getting great video of the standoff in Hutchinson. I thought their video was the best.
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