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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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01.28.2009 2:46 pm

TV’s digital switch is back on for Feb. 17

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

The House refused today to follow the Senate in voting to delay TV stations’ mandatory switch to all-digital broadcasting, so the change is back on for Feb. 17. I think this was the correct decision. But unlike many of the people…

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