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million television households in theHouston area, according to Nielsen estimates that 3.3 or 2.9 percent, of all U.S. televisiomn households remain unready for the June 12 transition toan all-digitakl broadcast. Although the government is saying that is not good it is an improvement froma Jan. 22 Nielsen report that showedx nearly 10 percentof Houston’s population was not readt for the conversion. At one time, the Bayoj City was at the top of the list for unpreparedmetropolitah areas, with as much as 15.8 percent of the populationh not ready for the switch. The conversion was originally schedulerd to take place in Februart but was postponeduntil June.
The change will only affecr televisions not connected to cable or satellite television servic and that predate the manufactureof digital-ready Viewers with such analog-onlt sets can buy converter boxes that will enablew the play of digital broadcasts. Next month’s switch is designeed to make the publicly owned broadcast spectrum more efficient and is also meant to free up some of the spectrum for a nationalemergenc responder’s communications frequency. When the FCC ran a “soft test” last week in preparation for the the agency received nearly 600 callws from the Houston media marketand 7,73t5 calls from Texas overall.
The Houstobn market posted the fifth-highest call total behind Chicago, New Dallas/Fort Worth and Los Angeles, according to the FCC. Calls coming in from the area ranged in nature from peoplr seeking informationabout $40 converter coupons issued by the governmeng and instructions on how to installl a digital converter box, as well as viewers that were experiencing receptiobn issues.
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