Approximately one quarter of the television stations all throughout the United States have already cut off their analog signals on February 17, which unfortunately resulted in several households having remained with no signal at all because they were not prepared for the transition to digital TV.

Consequently, stations and call centers informed that they had received many questions from angry and frustrated  callers.

Initially, all stations had been scheduled to cut their analog signal yesterday, yet the Congress, prompted by a series of issues that arose during the pre-transition period, decided to postpone the switch to digital signal until June 12.

The major problem occurred when the government ran out of funds aimed at providing coupons to offset the cost of TV converter boxes, which translated as many people coming to be likely to lose signal.

Nevertheless, it also put forward a list of stations that were to keep the Tuesday deadline, while the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) gave the go-ahead to 421 stations to make the transition to digital TV within this week, whereas another 220 have already gone all-digital.

The stations that have cut their analog signals have all been from highly populated ares, including San Diego, Santa Barbara, Madison, Wisconsin, Sioux City, Iowa, Rhode Island and Vermont.

Some of the stations are also performing changes to new digital frequencies, which means that people who have been receiving digital signal through a converter box or a digital TV set will now need to force their devices to rescan the airwaves in order to get picture.