Four of those five areas are on the “most liberal cities in America” list — as for Dallas, that area claims to be the “most liberal city in Texas” (Obama won Dallas County 57.5 to 41.9).

As long as there’s an Austin on Interstate 35, Dallas will never claim that title…

That would be miraculous.

There are no portable digital conversion boxes…all have to be hard wired to a plugged in TV.

coldwarrior on June 14, 2009 at 12:13 PM

What an excellent point – I never even thought about the portable/emergency tv issue.

That said; this has been being talked about/publicized for at least two years. How is it possible that some have not made the conversion yet? Seriously, how much advance warning do you need?

Next time we do something like this, we better spend more millions on PSA’s, and do it for even longer, so that the dumbest, least prepaired of our citizens won’t get caught short.

Instant, and cheap, tornado alarm. Not 100% effective, but neither is the National Weather Service back 20-30 years ago.

[Any science guy types out there?]

So much for having your own tornado alarm…

In any case, this new digital only system has NO provision for analog emergency signals…thus that portable TV you got? If it isn’t hooked up to your cable with the electricity running…no TV signal will be received.

There are no portable digital conversion boxes…all have to be hard wired to a plugged in TV.

I for one would be happy to give them tvs if they would give up their rights to ever vote in any election! To not know this was happening, or to be confused is sheer stupidity!!!!!!!!

As Rush says, the most dangerous thing our nation faces is ignorance.

By forcing TV digital, that opens up analog frequencies that the government is selling.

I find it comical that there are still people out there who think the change was made because the government cares about the quality of their picture.

With respect to the “spoken english” comprehension thing “Hispanics now account for 37.7 percent of Dallas County’s population and are the largest ethnic group, according to the most recent census data.”

I’ve not studied the real reason behind the digitization of television, but my first suspicions are to protect cable broadcasters and cable providers; secondly, to force the installation of an infrastructure that wires directly through any right to privacy. Having had the unfortunate need to have TWC come out and fix their cable, I learned that we are less than a year away from receiving basic services without their “box.” It was also demonstrated to me just how much more of a gadget the basic box is in addition to its ability to respond to the remote.

New Orleans and Katrina come to mind for some obscure reason.