Residents of Wilmington, NC were in shock yesterday when they couldn't receive analog television signals. The city presented a test of what the Feb. '09 DTV transition would be like, and the test failed miserably.

Bloomberg news reported on the event, saying residents flooded the city's phone lines. "Our phone lines were lit up for an hour straight between noon and one," said Thomas Postema, general manager of WSFX, the Wilmington Fox affiliate.

However, this comes as no surprise. A report by Nielsen Media Research in Feb. '08 revealed that 13 million households with analog televisions were unprepared for the digital transition. And, they reported that another 6 million households had at least one analog TV that would not receive digital broadcasts.

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