{"id":4556,"date":"2009-06-12T14:01:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-12T19:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/06\/sports-bettors-say-goodbye-to-digital-television\/"},"modified":"2009-06-12T14:01:00","modified_gmt":"2009-06-12T19:01:00","slug":"sports-bettors-say-goodbye-to-digital-television","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/06\/sports-bettors-say-goodbye-to-digital-television\/","title":{"rendered":"Sports Bettors Say Goodbye to Digital Television"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=Section1>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>So you watched &#8216;So You Think You Can Dance&#8217; last night on your old analog TV. <span class=GramE>(<\/span><\/span><\/font><st1:City><st1:place><span   class=GramE>Hollywood<\/span><\/st1:place><\/st1:City><span class=GramE> and entertainment <a href=\"http:\/\/www.offshoreinsiders.com\/index.php?PageID=98\">betting odds<\/a>).<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Watching Game 5 of the NBA Finals on Sunday night or Game 7 of the NHL Finals tonight on TV is going to be difficult without a digital converter box. Analog TV is dead. <span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>As of today, television stations across the nation will be turning off analog broadcasting and switching to digital broadcasting. So if you were planning on catching tonight&#8217;s<span class=apple-converted-space>&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/sports.bodog.com\/sports-betting\/nhl-hockey.jsp\" target=\"_blank\"><font color=black><span style='color:windowtext'>Game 7 of the NHL Stanley Cup Final<\/span><\/font><\/a><span class=apple-converted-space>&nbsp;<\/span>between the<span class=apple-converted-space>&nbsp;<\/span><strong><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight: normal'><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Detroit Red Wings and Pittsburgh Penguins<\/font><\/b><\/strong>, those rabbit ears better be in the trash and your<span class=apple-converted-space>&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dtv2009.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\"><font color=black><span style='color:windowtext'>digital converter box<\/span><\/font><\/a><span class=apple-converted-space>&nbsp;<\/span>should be good to go.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN'><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bodog.com\/welcome\/1861245\/sportsbook\">Bodog<\/a> <\/span><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0<\/span>understands your passion for televised sports and poker and would hate for you to miss out on any of the action. So if you&#8217;re one of the 2.8 million Americans STILL without <span class=SpellE>DTV<\/span> or a digital converter box, rather than tell you that you&#8217;re an idiot for thinking this was never going to happen or that <span class=SpellE>your&#8217;re<\/span> even more clueless for thinking that those stupid rabbit ears were going to keep you going for another 10 good years, here&#8217;s a link to the<span class=apple-converted-space>&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dtv2009.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong><b><font color=black face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='color:windowtext'>TV Converter Box Coupon Program<\/span><\/font><\/b><\/strong><\/a>.<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><strong><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>33 Ways to Watch Free TV Online<\/span><\/font><\/b><\/strong><o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><span class=GramE><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Seriously?<\/span><\/font><\/span> If you have Internet there&#8217;s no reason why you shouldn&#8217;t be able to watch your favorite television programs \u2014 for free!! Here are<span class=apple-converted-space>&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2007\/06\/18\/33-ways-to-watch-free-tv-online\/\" target=\"_blank\"><font color=black><span style='color:windowtext'>33 ways to watch free TV online<\/span><\/font><\/a>. Bettors may even be able to watch the big <st1:country-region><st1:place>India<\/st1:place><\/st1:country-region> vs. <st1:place>West  Indies<\/st1:place> match or even better than <st1:State><st1:place><span   class=SpellE>Ind<\/span><\/st1:place><\/st1:State> vs. WI is David Letterman versus Palin or the news reports in rapid lash.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>The top <a href=\"http:\/\/www.offshoreinsiders.com\/\">sports handicappers<\/a> make sure bettors win the games they watch. <o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><a\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.offshoreinsiders.com\/\"><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>OffshoreInsiders.com<\/b><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So you watched &#8216;So You Think You Can Dance&#8217; last night on your old analog TV. (Hollywood and entertainment betting odds). Watching Game 5 of the NBA Finals on Sunday night or Game 7 of the NHL Finals tonight on TV is going to be difficult without a digital converter box. Analog TV is dead. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/06\/sports-bettors-say-goodbye-to-digital-television\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sports Bettors Say Goodbye to Digital Television<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4556\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}