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Analogue and Rabbit Ears Soon to Be a Thing of the Past

KPBS TV’s program director explains the transition to from analog to digital television coming up in 2009.

Analogue and Rabbit Ears Soon to Be a Thing of the Past

Tom Fudge : In less than a year, television broadcasting will undergo a dramatic change in technology. The old broadcast signal, that signal that has been sent over the airwaves since Milton Berle had the most popular show, is going away. The old analogue signal is being replaced by a digital signal. Now if you hear that and say, “Oh man, now I've got to go out buy a digital TV or something,” take heart in knowing that's not necessarily the case.

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  • Keith York , KPBS TV program and production director. 

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