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Digital TV Switchover Nearing

The future of digital TV is nearly upon us. Wilmington, N.C. will be the first city in the United States to go all digital when they switch over this week.

At noon today, Wilmington’s five commercial broadcast stations are scheduled to become the nation’s first to permanently switch to all-digital signals, serving as a test of the government-mandated transition that other stations across the country will make in February.

“It’s like landing on the moon,” said Constance Henley Knox, general manager of CBS affiliate WILM. “We’re making history.”

The switch to digital TV is the biggest change in television viewing history. The switch in Wilmington was fairly easy due to the fact that only 8% of the home relied on antennas.