When analog shuts off, KMBC will stay on ...

You may have heard something about this "nightlight" program that Congress passed earlier this year to help out the last remaining folks who ignored all the previous warnings to get a converter box coupon.

(Speaking of which, while reporting a story for tomorrow's paper, I heard this beaut from a local TV engineer: "We still get calls every day from people who don't have coupons. And we also have people who think this is a governmentt conspiracy and is not going to happen. In fact, there's a whole group of people out there that think the digital aspect of this, the symbolic nature of digital, is a two way pipe that lets the government see in as well as they can see out." Yoiks.)

Anyway, the station in town that's agreed to serve as a nightlight station, and pay electrical bills on its analog signal for an additional 30 days past Friday's cutoff, is KMBC, Channel 9. Here is the video it will be looping continuously on its analog side beginning 9 a.m. Friday.