While we as consumers adapt to the new digital TV format, cable companies have had to do the same thing to keep bringing you your favorite shows.

Gene Birk visited one area cable company's transmission station to see just how they're doing it.

South Central Rural Telelphone Co-Operative is based in Glasgow, but one of their transmission stations is only a few miles from WBKO.

SCRTC receives our digital signal on this tower right here. It comes down through these lines, out through the transmission station.

The signal goes through this carrier system, then through these two tiny fiber optic lines, all the way to Glasgow, then out to the thousands of customers of South Central Rural Telephone.

And they send it out to four other cable companies, too.

"Brandenburg Telephone Company up in E-Town. We've got Duo-County over in Jamestown and Russell Springs, Kentucky. North Central which covers Scottsville and the northern part of Tennessee. And then we're also assisting Glasgow Electric Plant Board that covers the city of Glasgow."

And by the time the conversion was due, for S CRTC it was as simple as unplugging the analog box and plugging in the digital one.

"We had the antenna infrastructure and we certainly understood technically what had to change. I think that's where most people have had a problem, is understanding the technical differences between the analog and the digital."

But after getting over the initial apprehension, SCRTC says customers will be amazed at the "high definition" pictures digital TV will allow.

"But I think once they're able to see it, and they're able to understand the level of quality the HD picture will bring them, I think they'll really enjoy it and embrace it."

So what's the bottom line?

"Just be patient, just be patient, it will all work out. And it'll be better television in the end."

From now until December 22nd, if you receive our signal over-the-air with an antenna - even with a new converter box - you will not get our signal during the day.

That's because crews are working on our transmitter tower during the day, and our signal cannot be broadcast while they are there.

We will resume transmitting our signal from the tower, before the 5 o'clock news every evening.

Most cable customers will continue to receive WBKO without interruption.