Next Monday at noon, TV stations in Wilmington, N.C., will shut off their old television signals and broadcast only in digital, potentially leaving thousands of older televisions unusable. A
group of public officials and broadcasters will gather there and basically wait for the phones to ring.
Wilmington is the first U.S. city to switch to digital-only television
broadcasts. It is doing it five months early as a test of the strategy the government and broadcasters have adopted for helping people who still rely on over-the-air, analog television move into the
digital TV future.
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