I remember my first venture rooftop was to help turn our guy wire braced TV antanae to get the best signal. My mother was down below, yelling at us not to fall off the roof, managing to time it at a critical point when her voice distracted us to almost doing so.
My brother was inside, supposedly monitoring our monocrome set ( but in a custom cabinet with stereo player proudly 'handcrafted in the USA')until we got an optimum picture.
We must have made more adjustments than a sailor tacking across San Francisco Bay until he finally yelled at my mother, who yelled at my older brother. He promptly slipped and took out the best producing branch of our grapefruit tree.
That night we watched Red Skelton while my Chandler sheepranch raised mallinois barked at a bobcat that jumped on our cinderblock fence.
It was the Arizona monsoon season, and that night our antannae was quickly tweaked out of any usefullness, just as red said 'good night, and God bless.'
Somehow, the promises of seeing a superior image of Jerry Springer doesn't excite me so much as that first physical adventure at 5 y/o.
I've got my emergency radio, and late at night you can get old time radio broadcasts. Sometimes they play Red Skelton.

Our only analog set is in our MB and we have bought the converter box. Our local Fox affiliate and other channels have a comment each night during the late news about the switchover. If you watch local TV via antenna and you haven't heard about it by now, there is no hope for you. Most people here seem to have Cable, Satellite or don't watch TV.

I think the comment about the website/phone number is a good idea.

One of our local stations has been running periodic tests to drive the point home. During the brief test, viewers who lose the broadcast learn that they are not ready for the switch to be thrown.

I'm still not over being sold out by our govt (again). We gave the networks free use of the air and then we turn around and make a LOT of appliances unusable. Many of us still have TVs that don't have a cable ready port...including portables. I'm not just becoming aware, I was angry when it was first being proposed.

So now, I need new hardware. Even the $40 coupons don't cover new antennae.

and BTW... Chris has a great point...

The government made 16 BILLION dollars on those "free" airwaves.

Just FYI.

Or broadcast only the first twenty minutes of a few half-hour shows. Maybe the first twenty minutes of an episode of "Greenacres," followed by twenty minutes each of "Rhoda," and "The Mouseketeers." Rotate through those three same segments every hour, and see how long it takes for people to figure it out.

"...The Mouseketeers..."

If Annette is with them I'll watch...

hey don't forget that Britney Spears, Christian Agulera, Kerri Russell (Felicity on tv and in the new Adam Sandler movie out now) and Justin Timberlake were all Mouseketeers.

I'd forgotten about her. Guess I'll have to pull up a chair once an hour or so.

Maybe so, but Annette puts them all to shame...