Roger Dowdy, director of engineering for television station WTVF-Channel 5, has been where many of his colleagues must still go.

When Dowdy's station started carrying a digital TV signal in November, it was the first in town to do so. Now, with other area stations scrambling to meet a government-imposed May 1 deadline to go digital, Dowdy is resting easy.

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Government's push to promote digital TV has stations scrambling