700,000 People Didn't Get The Memo

[Hoofbite]

Unbelievable.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Nearly 700,000 people called a federal hot line this week, confused about the nationwide switch from analog to digital TV broadcasts that occurred Friday.

The Federal Communications Commission said Saturday that nearly 30 percent of the calls handled by agents from Monday to Friday were about how to operate the digital converter boxes needed to receive signals on older TVs.
The FCC said most of those callers' problems were resolved when they were told to re-scan the airwaves for digital frequencies.

The largest volume of calls came from the Chicago area, followed by Dallas-Ft. Worth, New York, Philadelphia and Baltimore.

About 317,450 people called the help line, 1-888-CALL-FCC, on Friday alone.
With 4,000 FCC staffers manning the phones Friday, the average wait time per call was 4.6 minutes.

 

[Tusan_Homichi]

I have no idea how you could have missed this was coming. Just watching TV, you'd see commercial after commercial about it. Not to mention all of the news stories.

 

[bbgun]

I have no idea how you could have missed this was coming. Just watching TV, you'd see commercial after commercial about it. Not to mention all of the news stories.

No kidding. Those PSAs were running continuously since January, even during live programming.

 

[big dog cowboy]

Honestly, I'm surprised there weren't more.

 

[Mavs Man]

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[TheCount]

Makes you wonder what would happen if there were actually a national emergency.

 

[Cajuncowboy]

This doesn't surprise me.