Local TV stations are leading the way in preparing residents of the Reno area for the upcoming switch to digital television to ensure no residents lose their television signals when the transition occurs.

Yesterday, KRNV News Anchor Joe Hart educated members of the Reno Central Rotary Club about the digital television transition.

Under congressional mandate, all television stations must switch from traditional analog broadcasts to a digital signal by February 17, 2009. Nearly one million households in Nevada receive broadcasts exclusively through analog signals and stand to lose television reception when this switch is made.

I have only two thoughts on this piece:

1. Nevada has nearly one million households which only can receive analog signals? There are only about two and a half million people in the state; do that many people live alone in this state?

2. Oh Dems, won't you buy me a digital TV. My TV is analog; there's nothing to see. I work hard for my money, get taxed all the time. Oh Dems, without TV, it's talk radio for me. (Please sing out as if listening to Janis Joplin's Mercedes Benz tune.)