Based on there beinf about 1700 stations with an average call rate of 66.5 calls per station switching based on who switched already and the number of calls received.
It would have been exponentially more. Very, very, few (if any) areas of the country went "dark" on the 17th. So most people's TVs continued to work, they just lost one or two channels. Further, the turned-off channels were disproportionately amongst the least viewed. The major networks said that the stations they own were going to continue broadcasting in analog for the time being, leaving only some affiliates, the minor networks, and the religious stations in the pool for turning off.
So the bottom line is that the above figures really have little or no meaning.
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So if they took 28,000 calls and only 421 stations flipped I would hate to see how many they would have had if all stations went DTV on 2/17.
About 113,000
Based on there beinf about 1700 stations with an average call rate of 66.5 calls per station switching based on who switched already and the number of calls received.
there is no scientific basis for this number :)
It would have been exponentially more. Very, very, few (if any) areas of the country went "dark" on the 17th. So most people's TVs continued to work, they just lost one or two channels. Further, the turned-off channels were disproportionately amongst the least viewed. The major networks said that the stations they own were going to continue broadcasting in analog for the time being, leaving only some affiliates, the minor networks, and the religious stations in the pool for turning off.
So the bottom line is that the above figures really have little or no meaning.