If You Didn't Know About the Switch, You Don't Deserve TV.

America has known about the switch from analog television to digital for MONTHS. The switch was even delayed by the Obama Administration because millions of Americans were still not ready for it. The BIG SWITCH was on Friday, and according to this article on CNN.com, the FCC still received hundreds of THOUSANDS of calls when people all across America didn't know what the EFF was going on when their televisions stopped working.A few things irritate me about this.

1. Who still has televisions that use antennas? If you have any sort of cable, you didn't have to DO anything. So unless you're living in the bayou, it shouldn't have been a problem.

2. If you ARE living in the bayou, you had YEARS to get a 40 dollar coupon for a converter box. YEARS. How did you NOT have a clue this was happening. HOW? There were commercials about THE SWITCH on every 5 minutes for the last year. There were crawls across the bottom of our screens warning us!

I don't think the fact that I work at a television station makes me more savvy to the digital switch because you had to be living under a rock if you were completely clueless. Or, like I said, living in the bayou, or you're 112 years old. (If you're 112 years old, then I think you have an excuse...but still. There were commercials. LOTS of commercials.)