As I have written before, the cutoff date for analog transmission in the United States was February 12th.  This has been extended to June 12th, 2009.  This is, believe it or not, a good thing because without this extension many Americans would be without TV.  On the flipside, no TV might be considered a good thing as it would force them to do something else other than to stare at the Idiot’s Lantern.