Wilmington, NC had the pleasure of being
the nation's first DTV transition test market, and now it has officially become the first market in the nation to flip the
kill switch on analog. As of noon ET today, the Wilmington area entered the digital frontier, and initial reports suggest that things are going fairly swimmingly.
Granted, "a few" viewers were still "struggling" to see the signal (read: not at all prepared for the change), but at least the world didn't completely implode or anything. Not like we can really avoid that scenario
come Wednesday, but hey, an extra 24 or so hours to live it up ain't half bad.
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Comments
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Subscribe to commentsnmmaloneSep 9th 2008 10:27AM
Hooray North Carolina!
Fox22Sep 9th 2008 12:33PM
They placed adds at all hours, every day, for months. I'm just glad I won't see them anymore. Didn't use analog anyways. Now we get to look forward to our license plates saying "First in Flight, First in Digital"...classy.