16 NEW STATIONS MAKE DTV TRANSITION

[Gregg Lengling]

--681 Stations in 174 Markets--
--Over-the-Air DTV Signals in Markets that Include Over 95% of TV Homes--

       WASHINGTON, D.C. - The National Association of Broadcasters announced today that 16 more television stations have begun transmitting a digital signal.

       Of the 16 new DTV stations (listed below), three are the first in their market on air with DTV (marked with a *).

KDOR-TV Tulsa, OK (market rank#60), Trinity-owned independent
WOTV-TV Grand Rapids, MI (market rank#38), LIN-owned ABC affiliate
*KOTA-TV Rapid City, SD (market rank#175), Duhamel-owned ABC affiliate
WIAT-TV Birmingham, AL (market rank#40), Media General-owned CBS affiliate
WDRB-TV Louisville, KY (market rank#50), Block Communications-owned Fox affiliate
*KTXS-TV Abilene, TX (market rank#163), Lamco-owned ABC affiliate
WSTM-TV Syracuse, NY (market rank#80), Raycom-owned NBC affiliate
KOVT-TV Albuquerque, NM (market rank#49), Hearst-Argyle-owned ABC affiliate
KOCT-TV Albuquerque, NM (market rank#49), Hearst-Argyle-owned ABC affiliate
WPEC-TV West Palm Beach, FL (market rank#39), Freedom-owned CBS affiliate
KHAS-TV Lincoln, NE (market rank#102), Greater Nebraska Television-owned NBC affiliate
*KNOP-TV North Platte, NE (market rank#209), Greater Nebraska Television-owned NBC affiliate
WBRE-TV Wilkes Barre, PA (market rank#53), Nexstar-owned NBC affiliate
WYOU-TV Scranton, PA (market rank#53), Bastet Broadcasting-owned CBS affiliate
WCET-TV Cincinnati, OH (market rank#32), PBS member station
WTOV-TV Wheeling, WV (market rank#150), Cox-owned NBC affiliate
       This brings to 681 the number of stations broadcasting in digital. DTV signals are now being transmitted in 171 markets that include 95.14% of U.S. TV households. In addition, 67.51% of the more than 106 million U.S. TV households are in markets with five or more broadcasters airing DTV and 35.6% are in markets with eight or more broadcasters sending digital signals.