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1) it's June 12th (not the 17th).
2) Channel 10 is running announcements now saying they're pulling the plug on analog broadcasts at around 9am that day (or is it the day before? Their website doesn't say right now). Haven't heard what the other local stations are doing.
Mike McCallister
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On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 11:13 PM, Gabriel Wollenburg <gwollenburg@...> wrote:
brilliant.
Routing this to Bktwks.--
On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 6:56 PM, Kevin Ciesielski <kevronrulz@...> wrote:
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> that is an amazing idea, I'll float it tonight @web414
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> On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 6:32 PM, Douglas Zander <darthdoug_1999@...>
> wrote:
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>> I was talking to a friend about how we should throw a party on
>> Friday, June 17th, 2009, to say goodbye to analogue television signals. I
>> wonder if we could have someone sponsor this at Bucketworks. What we do is
>> set up as many old style analogue (they must be non-digital) televisions as
>> we can and watch various over-the-air programs at the stroke of midnight and
>> watch them all lose their signals (what-ever they may broadcast when they
>> switch to digital). Then we hook up Atari 2600s and other old fashion game
>> systems and play video games till morning while in mourning. I can bring my
>> Atari 2600 and old analogue tv from 1986. hahaha! :-) :-)
>>
>> --
>> Douglas Zander
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