DTV Follies

[Garrett Wollman]

The FCC has now released a list of stations which have rescinded their
requests to go all-digital on the original transition date.  The list
includes, among others: WIVT (34 Binghamton), WETM-TV (18 Elmira), and
the entire Dayton, Ohio, market.  The FCC is evaluating the
"alternative showing" of WWNY-TV (7 Watertown), and will allow the
remaining stations which timely filed a request to leave the air,
including WBNG-TV (12 Binghamton), WCAX-TV (3 Burlington), WFFF-TV (44
Burlington), WVNY (22 Burlington), WNNE (31 Hartford), WPTZ (5 North
Pole), WLNE-TV (6 New Bedford), WJAR (10 Providence), WNAC-TV (64
Providence), WPRI-TV (12 Providence), and WWLP (22 Springfield).

Conspicuously absent from all of the lists are the stations of New
Hampshire Public Television, which have been running a crawl
announcing a February 17th shutoff.  Did they not timely refile their
request?

-GAWollman