Digital Television
In February 2009 Sinclair announced that many stations will adhere to the original DTV transition date of February 17, 2009. Sinclair stations' analog transmitters will be turned off then. Several stations, like WMSN in Madison, Wisconsin and WSMH in Flint, Michigan ended analog transmission on June 12 instead due to the FCC denying early shut-down to some of them in order to keep one commercial analog signal on in a market until the new transition.
To date, nearly all Sinclair owned and/or operated stations (except for the post-digital transition-acquired KMYU, KTVL, WHAM, WKRC, WPEC, WRGB, WTVC, & WWMT) are broadcasting on the UHF band, as many of them found their post-transition VHF assignments unacceptable to cover their full markets. WLOS is the only Sinclair station which went through the digital transition owned by SBG to have remained on VHF (WMSN moved from VHF to UHF in late 2010 due to signal conflicts in surrounding markets).
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“Television ... helps blur the distinction between framed and unframed reality. Whereas going to the movies necessarily entails leaving one’s ordinary surroundings, soap operas are in fact spatially inseparable from the rest of one’s life. In homes where television is on most of the time, they are also temporally integrated into one’s “real” life and, unlike the experience of going out in the evening to see a show, may not even interrupt its regular flow.”
—Eviatar Zerubavel, U.S. sociologist, educator. The Fine Line: Making Distinctions in Everyday Life, ch. 5, University of Chicago Press (1991)