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06.12.2009 4:39 pm

KMOV operating at reduced power

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

If you got KMOV (Channel 4) by antenna yesterday but can’t get it today — assuming you’re on track with the digital conversion and have a box or newer TV — the problem is likely that the station is operating…

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06.12.2009 1:54 pm

Update: TV’s digital switch is quiet, mostly

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

St. Louisans are taking the digital switch pretty calmly so far.

The St. Louis Fire Department, which has been helping with installations of converter boxes in the city, reports around 100 calls this morning.

Between midnight and mid-morning, the phone bank at…

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06.12.2009 12:20 am

TV goes digital; did disasters ensue?

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Is your TV having a snow day? For most of us, television as we’ve known it continued unchanged this morning.

But TV’s change to all-digital broadcasting, eons in the planning, finally took place at 12:01 a.m., as St. Louis stations KSDK,…

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05.27.2009 11:06 am

St. Louis is (almost) ready for digital TV, Nielsen says

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

St. Louis beats the national average in being ready for the June 12 switch to digital TV broadcasting, according to the newest Nielsen figures. As of May 24, about 2.7 percent of U.S. households (3.1 million) still weren’t ready. The…

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02.04.2009 5:24 pm

TV’s off-again, on-again digital switch is off again

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Forget Feb. 17; now it’s June 12 for TV’s switch to all-digital broadcasting after the House joined the Senate Wednesday in approving the delay. If the wait  were used to put more coupons into people’s hands, to make sure shelves…

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12.17.2008 1:45 pm

Ready for TV’s digital conversion? Make sure at 6:25 tonight

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Ready or not, every full-power television station in the United States will switch off its analog signal on Feb. 17, leaving only the digital signal. As you’ve heard a thousand times by now, sets still hooked up to antennas may…

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12.11.2008 10:20 am

Almost one-quarter of us now have HDTV

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Nielsen has released new figures showing high-definition TV penetration at 23 percent as of Nov. 30, up from 10 percent in July 2007. Why? Lower prices for high-definition sets; more programming and channels in HD; and the need for some…

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