WhAtEvEr HaPpEnEd...

Whatever happened to good old tv...

So most of my fam knows this but Roger and I don't have satellite or cable tv. We simply don't have room in our budget for it and honestly we don't really need all that comes along with it. We do although thanks to my brother Blake have or should I say "had" one station which was KUTV Channel 2. After I had Macee and Blake was here staying he was bored and figured out that we could get that one station with a radio antenna, tinfoil, and Roger sitting there holding it! Anyway we went and bought a set of bunny ear antenna's and have been able to watch one station, just enough to let me watch the news and to be able to watch my most favorite reality shows, i.e.: Survivor, Amazing Race, Big Brother, and some of the other shows on that station. It keeps me sane because I feel like I am still somewhat a part of the world! And now that the writer strike is over I was finally going to be able to watch new shows instead of re-runs! So I have been hearing about the new switch to Digital TV that will be happening in Feb. 09 and how I would need to get a nifty little Digital Box to be able to watch tv, but little did I know that when I would wake up this morning I would turn on the TV and there instead of the morning news and The Price Is Right (which I must add is Macees favorite show) there is the new RTN or the Retro Television Network! Wow! Is all I have to say. It plays old re-runs of all of the old shows that my parents used to watch. Just to name a few: Hunter, Happy Days, and many many more old shows! I got online to see what was going on and why I couldn't watch my beloved morning news show anchors and to my surprise I found out that Channel 2 decided to do the switch to digital television early and that it only affects a few select people in the St. George area! Of all the luck!!! We were lucky enough to be some of the select few! So needless to say I am rambling but I went to a website where you can sign up for coupons for the digital box and signed up to have one sent to us. So hopefully in 2-9 business days we will have our coupon and be able to go get our box. All I have to say is that I'm not the only dissapointed one in the house! Any of you who know my hubby knows that March Madness officially kicked off yesterday and KUTV is the station that runs every single game for the next month. Roger is officially going to be glued to the internet now for the next week instead of the tv. I think he about fell to the floor when I told him we didn't have that station anymore, he came right home from work and turned on the tv just to make sure I wasn't pulling his chain! Thank heaven for March Madness On Demand!!!!