DTV Follies

[Keith Fornal]

Per an article on projo.com, WJAR and WPRI will drop analog as scheduled on
2/17.  WNAC will remain on for 2 additional weeks and WLNE will remain on
for 60 days.  WNAC and WLNE will only be showing local news and the DTV
informational screens and videos.

http://newsblog.projo.com/2009/02/only-two-tv-sta.html#447990


-----Original Message-----
From: boston-radio-interest-bounces@tsornin.BostonRadio.org
[mailto:boston-radio-interest-bounces@tsornin.BostonRadio.org] On Behalf Of
Garrett Wollman
Sent: Friday, February 13, 2009 9:48 PM
To: bri@bostonradio.org
Subject: DTV Follies

The FCC has now released a list of stations which have rescinded their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