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Ready Or Not … TV Switch Tuesday

We’ve all seen the endless crawls and FCC-mandated alerts: Digital TV conversion is on the way. Yet questions still abound, beginning with the most obvious: Q.Should I care? A.Yes, absolutely, if you are among the 15 percent of viewers in the Spokane market who get their TV over the air via antenna. You’ll probably need a digital converter box to get local stations over the air. But if you are among the 85 percent of people here who get their TV through cable or satellite – or if you own a newer digital TV – you don’t need to do anything. You won’t notice any change/Jim Kershner, SR. More here.

Question: Are you affected by the Digital TV conversion that's coming Tuesday?



D.F. Oliveria
D.F. (Dave) Oliveria joined The Spokesman-Review in 1984. He currently is a columnist and compiles the Huckleberries Online blog and writes about North Idaho in his Huckleberries column.

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