Update: TV’s digital switch is quiet, mostly
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 KSDK got around 200 calls, most for people with technical issues, antenna problems or difficulty with reception.
The joint KTVI/KPLR phone bank had more than 600 calls by noon, on the same sort of issues.
KMOV wasn’t counting but said it had a couple of hundred calls. Some were from people who got the station digitally yesterday but not today. Their situation is different from other stations because their frequency changed. Today, they’re taking down the analog antenna and have to reduce power to the digital antenna to keep from electrocuting the workers. Power will go up and down, better at night, until July 1, when they’re back at full power.
If you still aren’t up and running, here are some resources:
* Apollo Industries, LLC: 800-504-5677, ApolloTV@inbox.com. This company will provide this free service to local consumers in Missouri.
* G2 Communications: 314-599-3999. This company will provide this free service to local consumers in the Missouri and Illinois areas.
* The St. Louis Fire Department and KETC/Channel 9 are still working together to provide in-home installation within the City of St. Louis. For help from the St. Louis Fire Department, consumers can call (314) 512-9617.
* The St. Louis Area Agency on Aging is also providing help for consumers with converter box questions. For seniors and disabled individuals over the age of 18 who would like help from the St. Louis AAA, consumers can call (314) 612-5918.
* Best Buy Co., Inc.: 877-229-3889. This company will provide this free service to local consumers in Missouri and Illinois.
I watched very little TeeVee before and now I’ll watch none! This is a plus to me! I’m glad too that the older folks that are the most susceptible to the media’s propangad and outright lies, that relied on analog will no longer be getting their eyes and ears filled with media tripe, perversion and brainwashing! This is a HUGE plus for our society. Now if we can just kill off the rest of the lying MSM were all set for a REAL recovery!
Have any of you sheeple seen the plethora of stories about how various people have opened the Digital Converter boxes and found that they actually DO contain a small camera and a microphone? What’s that for? Big Brother got his eye on you, dummies!