Slowly but surely, Americans with over-the-air TVs are realizing that their analog service will not return. Nearly two weeks after the DTV transition, about 1.8 percent of U.S. households are without digital service, according to data from Nielsen.
That equals about 2.1 million households, down from 2.5 million last week. Since the June 12 switch from analog to digital signals, about 400,000 households have successfully secured digital service, Nielsen said.
The Albuquerque-Santa Fe region remains the least prepared, with about 6.22 percent of all homes without TV service, followed by Austin, Texas with 4.72 percent, and Dallas-Forth Worth with 4.4 percent.
Los Angeles still has the largest number of unprepared households, at 190,549, or 3.37 percent of its population. Last week, that number was at 225,040.
Broken down by race, about 4 percent of African Americans are still without service, as are 2.9 percent of Asians, 2.8 percent of Hispanics, and 1.3 percent of whites.
About 4 percent of people under the age of 35 are unprepared, but less than 1 percent of people over 55 are without digital service.
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