Digital TV Transition Pushed To June 12

This is good news for anyone with rabbit ear antennas and a tendency to procrastinate. Congress voted to move back by four months the switch from analog broadcasting to digital. So there’s still time to sign up for the converter-box subsidy program, try hooking the box up to the TV, spew obscenities when it doesn’t work, cry uncle, and order cable. Apparently a lot of us have been putting it off. From the LA Times:

Consumer advocates say as many as 10 million viewers currently get their programming solely from over-the-air broadcasts and are unprepared for the digital transition.