Networks have seen that when viewer's favorite shows go off the air for an extended period of time--think the Walt Disney Co.

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The authorities in Indonesia ordered television stations to go off the air at night, although they subsequently exempted broadcasts of European football matches, to which many of their compatriots are addicted.

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The DJs have since apologized, and "mutually decided" to go off the air for an undetermined period, Rhys Holleran, CEO of the Southern Cross Austereo media group, said Saturday during a news conference.

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But another poll, this one by the nonprofit Consumers Union, which publishes Consumer Reports, found that three-quarters of the people it surveyed were wrong about what they have to do to get ready by the time analog signals go off the air on Feb. 17, 2009.

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Networks have seen that when viewer's favorite shows go off the air for an extended period of time--think the Walt Disney Co. (nyse: DIS - news - people )-owned ABC's Lost and CBS 's (nyse: CBS - news - people ) Jericho--it's hard to get those viewers back.

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But then I have to go out and either cut the air condition off, or cut the microwave off.

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"You run through a field and the paraglider wing catches the wind, it fills with air, blows you off the ground, you switch on the motor and off you go, you're flying, " he said.

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