WJET/WFXP announce DTV switch dates

April 2nd, 2009 joel

YourErie.com has noted the dates and times for the analog switchoff for the Nexstar stations WJET and LMA’d WFXP.

WJET which is now on low digital power, will shut off its analog transmitter at 11:35 PM, Friday, April 17th. Over that weekend and into the following week, workers will be on the tower readying the transmission system for full digital broadcasting right around April 22nd.

Meanwhile, Fox 66 is full digital now operating on JET’s tower. They will turn off their analog antenna on WQLN’s auxilary tower on Wednesday, April 22nd at 10:35 PM.

Posted in Television Tags: digital television, DTV, WFXP, WJET

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5 Responses to “WJET/WFXP announce DTV switch dates”

1. JimGriffey says:

   April 2, 2009 at 1:37 PM

   PBRTV.com is reporting that leaders of the House & Senate are looking for ways to delay the DTV transition again…until December 25th. Furthermore, the legislation could force those stations that converted to digital to convert BACK to analog until December 25th. Tom Lavery has the details at http://www.pbrtv.com.
2. Erie BlogWatch says:

   April 2, 2009 at 8:13 PM

   Hi Jim, did you notice the date on that PBRTV.com item and also the name of the reader that submitted it ?
3. JimGriffey says:

   April 2, 2009 at 11:03 PM

   D’OH!!! They got me!!!! Nice shot Lavery!!
4. Tom Lavery says:

   April 7, 2009 at 6:54 AM

   It did get a few people on our site and over at the AVS forum site as well. Some were not too happy & couldn’t take a joke.
5. JimGriffey says:

   April 7, 2009 at 11:52 AM

   Hey, I don’t mind being “punk’d.” I walked right into it.