Digital Switch Delayed

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - About 40 percent of the nation's hundreds of TV stations will be broadcasting completely in digital signals next week, even after regulators delayed a mandatory nationwide switch to "DTV" by months.

The Federal Communications Commission on Tuesday said 681 of the nearly 1800 television broadcast stations will have already stopped broadcasting in older, analog signals, or will by next week.

The U.S. House of Representatives last week voted to delay the mandatory change by four months -- to June 12 from February 17. President Barack Obama is expected to sign the bill into law shortly.

Seems like a pretty pointless issue.

"Disgusted"? Ouch.

Saying that she was “disgusted with RCN and more disgusted with Verizon,” Selectman Betsy Sheeran told her fellow board members this week that Verizon was in default of its Wakefield cable television license due to its failure to carry local programming channels (WCAT and the high school channel) on its Wakefield system.

Verizon. We never stop working for you.

Seriously, I'm an RCN customer, and channel 15 has no sound at all on my hi-def TV. How can I hear the great music I picked to accompany the help wanted ads?