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Feb 4, 2009 8:21 pm US/Central

Some Minn. Stations Switch To Digital Early

ROCHESTER, Minn. (AP) ― Some Minnesota-based television stations will begin broadcasting exclusively in digital television Feb. 17, even though Congress has passed a bill to extend the deadline for the conversion.

KTTC-TV and KXLT Fox 47 say their viewers in the Rochester-Austin-Mason City market are ready for the change from analog to digital. Duluth CBS and NBC affiliates KDLH and KBJR say they're also ending analog broadcasting Feb. 17.

Other stations in Minnesota already made the switch. FOX affiliates KQDS in Duluth, KVRR in Fargo-Moorhead, and KBRR in Thief River Falls made the switch on Feb. 1. NBC affiliate KRII in Chisholm ended analog broadcasting on Jan. 6.

A bill that extends the deadline for the transition to June 12 is expected to be signed into law.

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