Friday marks final signoff for analog TV service (AP)

The back of a Analog Pass-Through DTV Converter Box is seen as it sits on the counter at RadioShack in the Camp Hill Mall, Friday, June 12, 2009, in Camp Hill, Pa. Television stations across the U.S. began cutting their analog signals Friday, marking the final signoff for a 60-year-old technology. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)AP – TV shows were replaced by the hiss of static in perhaps 1 million U.S. homes Friday as stations ended their analog broadcasts and abandoned the transmission technology in use since the days of Milton Berle, Sid Caesar and Howdy Doody.

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