Can't stop the signal.

Feb 17, 2009 16:22

Today's the day. Tonight at midnight (as far as I understand it) we're shutting down our analog transmitters. We don't technically have to do it today, as they pushed back the deadline to mid-June, but we're doing it now anyway, because (a) we're ready, and (b) we'll save money ( Read more... )

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dieplz February 17 2009, 22:31:04 UTC
exciting!

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derspatchel February 17 2009, 22:48:23 UTC
Do you have a speech all prepared? Does it start with "Tremble before me" or "You have brought this on yourself"?

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cursethedark February 17 2009, 22:59:12 UTC
I'm working on it. Still need to work in something about crushing them under my bootheel.

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anterastilis February 17 2009, 23:43:26 UTC
You should work on your Mad Scientist laugh for the moment. Do you have a big metal switch that you get to throw down, complete with neon blue sparks and squiggles of evilness?

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cursethedark February 18 2009, 00:33:52 UTC
I wish. Actually, I don't think there's even that much I get to physically do...I know that with several of our sites around the state, we need to have on-site engineers, because our computer monitoring system doesn't work right.

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livsmama February 18 2009, 00:25:13 UTC
If I were you I would have a hard time not calling all the people that call in dumb-asses. We've had our box for a year!

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cursethedark February 18 2009, 00:34:41 UTC
I know. We've been running spots for at least two months, as well as a crawl at the top of the hour for the last week.

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ogasnor February 18 2009, 00:27:18 UTC
I have images of mobs with pichforks and torches, circling the building, confused and angered. And the next morning, all the poor, weeping children, shivering in the cold of a world without Sesame Street...

All because of The Man Who Was More Powerful Than Television!

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cursethedark February 18 2009, 00:32:53 UTC
MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Although I could see a problem coming from this. We don't have that many people in South Dakota, but we do have a LOT of pitchforks.

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seattleforge February 18 2009, 08:14:46 UTC
That's a wonderful icon.

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