Memphis had a bad storm Friday afternoon that left 150,000 people without power. Lucky for me, my power stayed on.
But whenever it would go out, I used to get out my little 2.3 inch battery tv. Unfortunately, it is now trash. I heard a couple of people call a talk show complaining that their battery powered televisions no longer worked and one person called and said they couldn't get their radio that picked up tv sound to work.
So the timing of the analog cutoff was not good here for people in West TN, North MS, and East AR. Our tv stations really do prove how important local tv still is when there is severe weather in the area.
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