DTV Transition: the Day After

As of June 12, 2009, at some point in the day, all broadcast analog TV stations are to stop programming in analog and exclusively go digital. This is what you see in the Boston area the day after (6/13/09). Some stations may be required to stay on a week or so longer to show an instructional video on how to convert over to the digital format. In this case, channels 4 (WBZ) and 5 (WCVB) are sticking around for the instructional video. The video is about 20 minutes long, half in English, and the other half in Spanish, but it's the exact same thing.
This doesnot affect most poeple, since most have cable, sattelite, or telcom, and those who do use antennas (like myself), likely have a digital television, or have got a converter box.
Of course, my TV is capable of digital reception, but went down the dial to see what's still alive in analog-land.
NOTE: If you'd like to try this at home, and you enter an analog station, and the digital one pops up instead, make sure you had analog stations programmed in to begin with, and end your channel selection with ".0", or "-0", depending on the TV. I did this a couple times here, so no example is needed.
In a mater of a week or two, all analog TV will no longer exist, except for the low-power stations (college campuses, and the like).
Make sure your TV, is DTV. :)

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[denelson83]

You forgot WPRI on channel 12.

[georgef551]

@denelson83

That station didn't work anyway (digital), but analog, you're right.

Oops. :)

[denelson83]

@georgef551 There was also WJAR on channel 10.

[georgef551]

@denelson83

That station didn't work over here. I didn't forget it, in this case.

[sethypoo2000]

@denelson83 Please don't point out mistakes

[georgef551]

@sethypoo2000

That was fine. Analog 12 is receivable here, and didgital, until the transition.

[georgef551]

@jason24568

At the time, I wasn't aware of the Spanish portion, because they were not aired back-to-back like channel 4's was. 5 ran all their segments, as well as the "Ask This Old House" segment on the switchover, before all the segments were repeated in Spanish.

[jason24568]

If you said channel 4 and 5 have a demo (4 in spanish and 5 in english) For example, after English portion, changed to Spanish portion and they repeating it again.

[jason24568]

On old CRT TV with converter box sometimes, you can see other channels in letterboxed because the CRT TV is 4: but on new LCD TV was in 16:9

[georgef551]

The TV's default was fullscreen, and I just can't have distorted video. The digital stations appear as such as well, but the widescreen is full screen (Some TV's don't do that by themselves.)