many Analog American TV stations will kill analog Feb 17 even if deadline is extended

[wa2ise]

Originally Posted by colorfixer

5. $aving the dollars in a screwy economy that would pay for the energy bill to keep the analog transmitters lit up. Being in engineering, just getting the corporate bean counters off your back is more than worth it.

Some years ago, I heard of some UHF station in the Washington DC area that went digital and quit transmitting an analog signal. As they knew that most of their viewers got the station over cable TV systems. So they supplied the various cable TV systems in the area digital decoder/converters and antennas, helped set them up, and once that was done, quit analog. Their old analog power was something like a half million watts, and supposedly their digital wattage was much less, for the same service coverage area. The electric bill savings were significant.

[ChrisW6ATV]

Originally Posted by wa2ise

Some years ago, I heard of some UHF station in the Washington DC area that went digital and quit transmitting an analog signal.

KCSM (channel 43) here in the San Francisco area dropped its NTSC (channel 60) signal in about 2004 after a problem with their analog transmitter or tower site. They did bring the analog station back on the air at lower power for a while some time later, but I think it is gone again.