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percent of households in the Tampaz Bay area will go Although that represents morethan 28,00o0 households in the region, it’s still well ahead of the national averaged of 2.5 percent. That means 2.8 million householdas could be without television signal by the weekened unless they purchase digitaltelevision sets, connect to cablde or satellite, or purchasse a converter box, according to The digital transitionm was supposed to happen in February, but federall officials delayed that move for three months after millions of homesx would lose television. During those threse months the number of homes completely unreadh for the transition was cut in halffrom 5.
8 “Given the importance that television playse in the day-to-day life of most we expect that most of the remaining unready homez will take the necessary steps to get ready once the stationsw make the final switcgh to digital transmission,” said Sara Erichson, presidengt of media client services for Nielsen, in a Congress created the digitalo switch in 2005 as a way to free up analoyg spectrum for cellular phone companiesw and others that coul use signal that has been in use by television stations for decades. Nielsen based its data on its Nationao People Meter panel as well as locapmetered panels.
The Tampa-Sarasota television market also cut its number of unready homes in halffrom 3.28 percentf in February to 1.55 percent in June. much of that drop happened through April. In Florida, the Fort Myers-Naples market has the best percentage of prepared households with less than 1 percent completel y unready for thedigital transition, representinyg fewer than 5,000 homes. The Orlando-Daytonz Beach-Melbourne market has 1.45 percent of its households completelyu unready, representing more than 21,2000 homes. The biggest problem area statewidde remainsin Miami-Fort Lauderdale where 2.81 or 43,468 homes, are completely unreaduy for the digital transition on Friday.
Nationwide, Albuquerque-Santas Fe has the worst percentage of unreadyh householdsat 7.58 percent. Los Angelesa has the most number of households standing currentlyat 252,180.