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percent of households in the Tampa Bay area will go Although that represents morethan 28,000 households in the region, it’s stil well ahead of the nationak average of 2.5 That means 2.8 million householdd could be without television signal by the weekend unlesws they purchase digital televisiomn sets, connect to cabl e or satellite, or purchase a converter box, accordinhg to The digital transition was supposed to happenj in February, but federal officials delayed that move for thre months after millions of homes would lose television. During those threre months the number of homess completely unready for the transition was cut in halffrom 5.
8 “Given the importance that televisiom plays in the day-to-day life of most people, we expect that most of the remaininhg unready homes will take the necessary steps to get readuy once the stations make the final switch to digital said Sara Erichson, president of media cliengt services for Nielsen, in a release. Congress created the digita switch in 2005 as a way to free up analogy spectrum for cellular phone companies and others that could use signal that has been in use by television stations for Nielsen based its data on its Nationa People Meter panel as well as localmetereed panels. The Tampa-Sarasota television markeg also cut its number of unready homes in halffrom 3.
28 percentg in February to 1.55 percent in June. much of that drop happenede through April. In Florida, the Fort Myers-Naples market has the best percentagde of prepared households with less than 1 percent completely unread for thedigital transition, representing fewer than 5,000 homes. The Orlando-Daytona Beach-Melbourne market has 1.45 percentr of its households completelu unready, representing more than 21,200 homes. The biggest problej area statewide remainsin Miami-Fort Lauderdalse where 2.81 percent, or 43,468 homes, are completely unreadhy for the digital transition on Friday. Albuquerque-Santa Fe has the worst percentage of unreadyg householdsat 7.58 percent.
Los Angeles has the most numbere ofhouseholds unready, standing currently at