Some analog stations will be vacating their old slots with their digital counterparts assuming the new channel position (never mind the virtual channel ID's). Some digital stations will be moving over to the old analog channel assignments. Some digital stations will shift from one channel to another.

From a San Diego viewpoint, the chances of getting digital signals from Los Angeles are iffy at best. With analog, at least I could get a scratchy VHF signal from there at my house, but with UHF, I haven't been successful in getting any UHF signal from there since the 80s.

When all of the signals go digital Saturday morning, I probably won't be getting any L.A. TV anymore, period. So that means, that if the local stations pre-empt the network programming for news or whatever, and Cox no longer carries the L.A. network affilliates as backup, then we'll have to turn to the Internet to catch some of the shows.

All of the newer home TV sets being produced are ready for the transition. Older sets that rely on cable or satellite need to do nothing for now, but cable may drop analog cable in 2012 or later.

Older TV sets produced prior to 2007 may need a digital to analog converter only if it relies on over-the-air signals for their channels. Some digital TV sets produced in the early 00s decade may not decode digital over the air signals, so they may need a digital converter. Use your rabbit ears to test out your TV sets, or ask a neighbor to help you if you determine whether the signals you're getting are just analog or with digital.

In San Diego, it's easy. KFMB, KGTV, and KSWB are no longer broadcasting in analog. If your TV set can't get any of those three signals, then your TV needs a digital to analog converter. On Saturday, you won't get KPBS, KNSD, or KUSI either. You'll just get the Mexico TV channels like XETV, XEWT, and others from Tijuana after June 12.

In Los Angeles, you won't really notice it until your daughter wants to watch Hannah Montana on KABC this Saturday morning, and your over-the-air TV that relies on broadcast signals gets nothing because it and all the others went digital.

Right now, it's a massive signal mess in the Los Angeles area. Just about every UHF channel and most of the VHF channels have some kind of broadcast signal coming on it (whether it's a digital, analog, low-power analog, low-power digital, mobile communications, channel 55 mobile phone TV, or whatever). On Saturday, a lot of that will be cleaned up as the full powered analog TV signals and digital TV signals will vacate the channel 52-69 area of the UHF band so that other uses such as mobile phone TV will become a reality; with all of the full powered analog signals on the entire TV bands disappearring.

In Los Angeles, here's what will happen after the June 13th Midnight deadline for all analog signals to vanish. Some may broadcast nightlight DTV information for a week or two, but I haven't received any information on which L.A. stations will be nightlight stations.

Get ready for this with KCBS and KCAL. Right now, KCBS has an analog signal on 2 and its digital on 60. KCAL has an analog signal on 9 and its digital on 43. On Saturday morning, KCBS and KCAL's analog will go off the air. KCAL-DT will appear on 9. KCBS-DT will move to 43, replacing the KCAL programming.

KNBC has an analog on 4 and digital on 36. KTLA has an analog on 5 and digital on 31. On Saturday, 4 and 5 will be off the air. Digital continues for KNBC and KTLA as they were.

KABC has analog 7, digital 53. KTTV has analog 11, digital 65, and KCOP has analog 13, digital 66. On June 13, all three of the digital signals will replace their stations' respective analog channel assignments.

On to the UHF channels. All but three of the Los Angeles analog UHF stations will no longer be using their original analog channel assignments, while their digital counterparts will remain on their current channel assignments. The exceptions are KSCI analog channel 18 when its digital channel on 61 moves to 18 on June 13, KCET analog channel 28 when its digital channel on 59 moves to 28 on June 13. and KWHY analog channel 34 when its digital channel on 35 moves to 34 on June 13.

KRCA analog channel 62 has a digital channel on 68, but on June 13, its digital signal moves to channel 35.

KWHY analog 22 dies, leaving its digital on 42. KPXN analog 30 dies, leaving its digital on 38. KTBN analog 40 dies, leaving its digital on 23, but still pending is a possible move to 33 to avoid co-channel interference with XETV-TD. KXLA analog 44 dies, leaving its digital on 51. KFTR analog 46 dies, leaving its digital on 29. KOCE analog 50 dies, leaving its digital on 48. KVEA analog 52 dies, leaving its digital on 39. KAZA analog 54 dies, leaving its digital on 47. KDOC analog 56 dies, leaving its digital on 32. Lastly, KLCS analog 58 dies, leaving its digital on 41.

KJLA already made its digital move from analog 57 to 49 last October.

KVMD made its digital move from analog 31 to 23 in 2003. It originates from 29 Palms.

KHIZ made its digital move from 64 to 44 on February 18.

KBEH will make its digital move from 63 to 24 on Saturday.

KVCR will make its digital move from 24 to 26 on Saturday.

Some low power stations may still be in their positions or move to new locations. KNET-CA is on 25 as an analog station, and might be on channel 22 as a digital station soon after KWHY vacates channel 22. No date on when that will happen.

For those in the Imperial Valley, KAJB has an analog on 54 and a digital on 50, but on June 13, its digital will be on 36. KECY has an analog on 9 and a digital on 48, but on June 13, its digital will remain on 48. KVYE has an analog on 7 and a digital on 22, but on June 13, its digital will remain on 22. KSWT has an analog on 13 and a digital on 16, but on June 13, its digital will remain on 16. KYMA has an analog on 11 and a digital on 41, but on June 13, its digital will be on 11.

In Palm Springs, KESQ has an analog on 42 and a digital on 52. On June 13, its digital moves to 42. KMIR has an analog on 36 and a digital on 46. On June 13, its digital remains on 46.

In Santa Barbara, KEYT already shut off its analog signal channel 3 on Feb 17. Its digital signal is on 27. KPMR already shut off its analog signal channel 38 on Feb 17. Its digital signal is on 21.

Rescanning and More Power Coming June 13

Right now, the digital signals that still have its analog channel operating remain low in order for the stations to not cause co-channel interference with other stations close to the city. Once the analog signals go away, the digital signals can assume its current location or move to a new location and boost their signals. UHF signals may go from barely 200kw to 1000kw, but even that may still be too weak for distant locations that used to get its analog signal in at least a scratchy form. VHF stations may go to 72kw, but that could be too low for many TV sets to pick up compared to analog's 316kw for channels 7-13 in the analog era. Using VHF rabbit ears for the VHF channels are a necessity, but the stations should consider boosting their power so more TV sets can get the weaker VHF signals. Some indoor antennas that can pick up VHF and UHF signals were seen at the local Fry's store.