{"article":{"id":223632,"heading":"The end of television is near!","author":"mous","created":"2009-01-10 07:41:26","modified":"2009-01-10 07:41:26","last_modified":"Sat, 10 Jan 2009 14:41:26","article":"<p>The End is near!  The End is near! <br><br> Television stations are supposed to switch to Digital TV by Feb. 17th, 2009.  Only one month away, and not everyone has a converter box today. <br><br> Worse, the coupon program has run out of money.  So many people may find themselves without a coupon, and will be cornered into buying a $60 set top converter box. <br><br> With the economy in the dumps, the people who don't have cable tv are going find the boxes expensive. <br><br> So, soon, many people may find that television is over on Feb 17th!<\/p>\n","contact":"","link":"","address":"","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"text\/plain","summary":"The television will stop working on February 17th","numcomment":0,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/","filesize":null,"article_url":"\/news\/2009\/01\/223632.php"},"attachments":[],"comments":[]}