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Today, some TV stations in region go all-digital

Listen up, if you still have rabbit ears. Or a rooftop antenna.

Listen up, if you still have rabbit ears. Or a rooftop antenna.

Today, some TV stations in Pennsylvania and New Jersey will stop broadcasting their analog signals and go all-digital.

So will hundreds of other stations nationwide.

Philadelphia-area broadcasters, though, will continue to beam both signals.

Congress extended the official analog cutoff date to June 12.

But hundreds of stations across the country are sticking to the original Feb. 17 deadline.

By tomorrow, to see these stations, anyone depending on over-the-air signals will need a converter box, a new digital-ready TV, or a digital provider such as cable, FiOS or satellite.

The federal government is still issuing $40 coupons for converter boxes through a website, www.dtv2009.gov.

Here's the list of stations going digital-only today in both states, ordered by proximity to Philadelphia. (No Delaware stations are involved.)

Pennsylvania

Wilkes-Barre-Scranton: WNEP-TV (ABC), WVIA-TV (PBS), WYOU (CBS), WBRE-TV (NBC), WQMY (MyN)

Harrisburg-Lancaster-Lebanon-York: WIFT-TV (PBS), WLYH-TV (CW)

Johnstown-Altoona-State College: WATM-TV (ABC), WWCP-TV (Fox)

Pittsburgh: WPGH-TV (Fox), WPMY (MyN), WQEX

Erie: WSEE-TV (CBS)

New Jersey

Atlantic City / Wildwood: WMGM-TV (NBC).

West Milford, Passiac County: WFME-TV.

Newton, Sussex County: WMBC-TV.

For more information about the transition, go to www.dtv2009.gov.