Hopefully stations will revert back to analog in emergency situations. Here in New Orleans a few news programs have already announced that in an emergency with terrible weather they will broadcast in analog because they know people will be without power. Hopefully, other places will follow suit before the only people left uninformed are those who can't afford the battery operated equipment to add to their existing televisions.

You are amazing... I like Erica as well, but you are amazing!!

Just a comment; i git rid of the cable tv. so analog is a good idea?

Get a commercial generator to plug in your TV, DVD, and Stero coupled with wireless internet we should be good to go! Now if I can only set up my fax I could send out an SOS... lol and use caution this season

There are digital battery powered tv sets already available..if NOT the second best is a gerry-mandered, 12v car battery, a low cost INVERTER and you have your 110 to run a tv....all for about $50

To the user who commented on stations reverting to analog. They can't. Because the frequencies are now being assigned for use by other people including, in some cases, emergency services and cell phones. Reverting to analog isn't an option.

Rural people probably will be fine. They have satellites out of necessity. Urban older people likely will b at risk. Fixed incomes make no room for cable or satellites. Low skill workers can't do it on minimum wage jobs.

Just a comment:
The cost of the conversion (convertor boxes, special high powered antennas, special cable wires, etc.) seem to hit those of us who were too poor to have cable in the first place!

If you can buy a digital portable TV for $50 as Jim pointed out, it's too bad that we can't use the $40 coupon from the FCC to buy that instead of a converter box.