When I was 11, I thought television was ending. Raised on a steady diet of PBS programming like Arthur and Cyberchase, I spent a solid percentage of my days after elementary school sitting on the carpet in front of WCNY, the Syracuse-area PBS affiliate.
Beginning in February 2008, over-the-air broadcasters — stations with a W or K in front of their name — were required by the federal government to begin airing public service announcements about the transition from analog to digital television broadcasts. The FCC mandated that stations run an awareness campaign about the transition to ensure households knew that, without a digital converter for analog receivers, analog-only devices would stop receiving television broadcasts on June 12, 2009.
The transition served two purposes. Digital broadcasts are of much higher quality than analog broadcasts, meaning the transition improved both aud…
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