by Sue Merrell | The Grand Rapids Press
GRAND RAPIDS -- We have lift off!
Friday's national switch from analog to digital television was celebrated with all the pomp of a rocket launch at the Meijer Public Broadcast Center in downtown Grand Rapids.
Dignitaries, photographers and reporters jammed into the WGVU-TV control room for a live broadcast counting down the final seven minutes of the station's analog signal. At 10 a.m., retail magnate Fred Meijer, a major supporter of public broadcasting, pushed the button to shut off power to analog Channel 52. Grand Valley State University President Emeritus Arend D. Lubbers, who welcomed viewers when the station started broadcasting in 1972, turned off the power to Channel 35.
"I thought it would hurt, but it didn't," Lubbers quipped. As the analog monitors in the room went gray, applause could be heard outside the door.
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1 comments:
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My mother has a tv and the converter box. For awhile she was able to get the DTV PBS signal from WGVU, today she can't. She is convinced that if she were able to afford a new tv perhaps this might not be a problem. She could either get cable or get a new TV but she can't afford it. She is not alone and there are probably millions of people who are being left out of TV because they cannot afford the upgrade. I've called our congressman about it, and the local stations about it and all the will do is tell us to get info about it at some web site or another without really solving our problem!
! Just think of all those inner city kids who can't afford a new tv being left out of sesame street let alone older folks like my mother who depend on PBS for quality programing but cannot afford to get a new tv. The only station she is getting today has golf on it whoopdee doo! Congratulations WGVU for contributing to the digital divide
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