NEW YORK -- Starting in the morning and going into the night, TV stations across the U.S. are cutting their analog signals on Friday to go entirely digital. It ends a six-decade era for analog broadcasting and could strand more than 1 million unprepared homes without TV service. The Federal Communications Commission has 4,000 operators waiting for calls from confused viewers. However, a partial shutdown of analog broadcasting in February resulted in fewer calls than expected. TV sets hooked up to cable or satellite feeds will not be affected. Antenna-equipped digital TVs and older sets hooked up to converter boxes should be fine, but they will need to be set to "re-scan" the airwaves to find stations that move to new frequencies Friday.
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