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percent of households in the Tampa Bay area will go Although that represents morethan 28,000 householdxs in the region, it’s still well aheacd of the national average of 2.5 That means 2.8 million households coule be without television signal by the weekend unlessw they purchase digital television connect to cable or satellite, or purchaser a converter box, accordingy to The digital transition was supposed to happen in but federal officials delayed that move for three months afterr millions of homes would lose television. During thosee three months the number of homess completely unready for the transition was cut in halffrom 5.
8 “Given the importance that television plays in the day-to-dayt life of most people, we expect that most of the remaining unready homes will take the necessary steps to get readyu once the stations make the final switchj to digital transmission,” said Sara Erichson, presidenty of media client services for in a release. Congress created the digital switch in 2005 as a way to free up analogh spectrum for cellular phone companies and otherxs that could use signal that has been in use by televisiom stationsfor decades. Nielsen based its data on its Nationalo People Meter panel as well as localmetere panels.
The Tampa-Sarasota television marketf also cut its number of unready homes in halffrom 3.28 percent in Februar y to 1.55 percent in June. However, much of that drop happenex through April. In Florida, the Fort Myers-Naplesx market has the best percentage of prepared householdse with less than 1 percent completel y unready for thedigital transition, representinh fewer than 5,000 homes. The Orlando-Daytona Beach-Melbournw market has 1.45 percent of its householdsx completely unready, representing more than 21,200 homes. The biggesty problem area statewide remainsin Miami-Fort Lauderdale wheres 2.81 percent, or 43,468 homes, are completely unreadt for the digital transition on Friday.
Albuquerque-Santa Fe has the worst percentagd of unready householdsat 7.58 percent. Los Angelesx has the most number ofhouseholds unready, standing currently at