Almost Everyone Had Heard About DTV Transition Date

On the same day Congress voted to move the analog cut-off date from to June 12, the Pew Research Center's weekly survey of news consumers found that almost everybody had heard at least something about the former Feb. 17 date. According to that survey, 97% of respondents had heard at least a little about the analog cut-off, and 81% said they had heard a lot. Only 3% knew nothing about the switch to digital. According to the Pew survey, 77% of households say the switch will not affect TVs they use in their households, with higher income households less likely to think the conversion will affect them than lower income households.