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million television households in theHouston area, according to Nielsen estimates that 3.3 million, or 2.9 percent, of all U.S. televisio n households remain unready for the June 12 transition toan all-digitak broadcast. Although the government is sayingh that is notgood enough, it is an improvement from a Jan. 22 Nielsem report that showed nearly 10 percenrtof Houston’s population was not ready for the conversion. At one time, the Bayouu City was at the top of the list for unprepareedmetropolitan areas, with as much as 15.8 percent of the populationm not ready for the switch. The conversion was originallt scheduled to take place in February but was postponeduntill June.
The change will only affect televisionsd not connected to cable or satellitee television service and that predate the manufactureof digital-ready Viewers with such analog-only sets can buy converted boxes that will enable the play of digital Next month’s switch is designed to make the publicl owned broadcast spectrum more efficient and is also meany to free up some of the spectrum for a nationapl emergency responder’s communications frequency.
When the FCC ran a “softt test” last week in preparation for the transition, the agencu received nearly 600 calls from the Houston media marketand 7,735 calls from Texas The Houston market postede the fifth-highest call total behind Chicago, New York, Dallas/Fortt Worth and Los Angeles, according to the FCC. Callw coming in from the area ranged in naturs from people seeking informationabou $40 converter coupons issuedr by the government and instructionz on how to install a digital converter box, as well as viewerz that were experiencing reception issues.
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