If you turn on your TV today and you notice the signal is a little clearer, you're just witnessing the wonders of digital television.
If not, did you buy your D-TV conversion box and hook it up?
NBC joined CBS and PBS in broadcasting a digital signal in southwestern North Dakota Monday.
"Hopefully everybody enjoys their new digital because I know Dickinson has been anxious to get it going out here," Brian Funk, chief engineer for KQCD-TV, KFYR-TV, KMOT-TV and KUMB-TV said.
Feb. 17 was the original deadline for the switchover from an analog signal to a digital signal, but Congress voted last month to push the date to June 12 to allow people to better prepare.
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Mark Enderle the production manager for KXMA-TV in Dickinson said they have broadcast in digital for the last year and will continue to provide analog service.
"We are going to maintain our analog signal until the June 12th cutoff date," Enderle said.
Funk said the NBC stations considered putting the switch off until June 12, but they were ready so they went ahead with the switch.
"One of the main reasons we did it in Dickinson and Williston is that would have deprived this area of a few more months from going digital," Funk said. "Since we were ready and a large amount of the viewers are ready, we figured we would do this right now. Otherwise everyone would have had to wait until June to get their digital television."
Funk said the switch will enable those with the capability of receiving High-Definition stations to receive their NBC shows in HD, something which was already available from CBS and PBS.
