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TV stations struggling with viewer loss on DTV

By Associated Press
Thursday, July 2, 2009 -
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NEW YORK — TV regulators say they are trying to help stations that lost viewers because of a switch to new frequencies on June 12, when they turned off their analog signals.

Hundreds of stations moved their digital signals from the UHF band to the VHF band, previously used only for analog broadcast, and viewers in cities like Philadelphia and Chicago are having problems receiving them.

 
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