Will the digital transition delete millions of viewers?

February 15, 2008 Analog signals will stop transmitting, older sets will become useless and millions of TV-watching households will simply disappear. At least that's the doomsday scenario confronting the TV industry as a government mandate forces all U.S. stations to convert to digital from the analog signals that have been broadcast on the same frequencies since the 1930s. An estimated 21 million households have TV sets that receive only over-the-air signals, and about 14 million of those homes rely solely on analog TVs, according to Nielsen Media Research.

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