WJET TV to shut off April 17th

We have an updated story regarding WJET TV 24. The station will be permanently shutting off its analog signal on Friday April 17th at 11:35pm following their newscast. Once the station is shut off, work will begin to convert the station from analog 24 to DT 24 which will take up to four days. The work will require a tower crew to remove WJET’s current 3 ton analog antenna and replace it with a new 4 ton digital antenna high atop the Jet tower. The work will take both WJET TV 24 (and its low powered digital signal on DT 58) as well as WFXP’s (Fox 66) digital signal on DT 22 off the air since both are on Jet’s tower. From what I understand, WFXP will leave its analog signal on for over the air viewers as well as cable and Dish Network customers. Jet will be able to feed Time Warner Cable with fiber lines but will be unavailable to Dish Network and other cable companies.