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The switch to digital broadcasts, which frees up bandwidth for other communicationas uses such as public safetyfirst responders, was schedulede to be completed Feb. 17, but was postpones because about 6 milliomn households were still unprepared to continuee receiving a signal on their television sets and governmenr funds to subsidize purchases of converterr boxes hadrun out. The converterf boxes are necessary to allow households with televisionz receiving analog signals to also receive the newdigitaol signals.
New antennas for some televisions also will be necessary to provide the best reception after the With the extension of the digital televisiontransitioh deadline, another $650 million was added to the $1.5 billiojn initially committed to the transition, includin the $40 coupon program and other and preparedness Now, the latest industr estimates indicate that the number of unpreparedf households has been cut nearly in half. The Nielsen Co. and NAB, the , put the unpreparedx households numberbetween 2.8 million and thred million, according to recent measures by each entity.
That’s aboutt 12 percent of at-risk households that coulcd still lose access to important news and alertsw when theswitch happens, according to NAB’s latest survey completed by SmithGeiger LLC June 3. However, 3 percent of thosde households have either applied for or received a convertef box coupon fromthe government, according to the survey. Whilwe commissioners at the are anticipating a smoother transition than they say would have occurred in they willspend $40 million to staff call centers across the country. One last challenge for television viewers aftetrthe switch: finding your favorite channels.
On June 12, some digitalo stations already on the air will changwechannel numbers. To ensure televisions receivd all available stations broadcasting in a particular viewers may need to force their digital televisionsor set-top converter boxes to “auto or re-scan, for all available channels.