Recycling companies in Illinois and Missouri are seeing an uptick of television sets, according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. More are expected after analog TV transmitters are shut down next February. As the Dispatch stated, “Many analog TV owners don't know yet that their sets won’t work without a converter box or subscribing to services such as cable or satellite.”
One recycling event in a St. Louis suburb yielded three tractor-trailers of TV sets. About 182,000 homes in St. Louis would have been TV-free if the transition had taken place in August, the newspaper reported.