When I tuned in on Saturday, June 13th, indeed it was an unlucky day for me -- or was it?
AP | PETER SVENSSON | Posted 07.18.2009 | Media
NEW YORK — The shutdown of U.S. analog TV service on Friday appears to have gone relatively smoothly, but as expected, a lot of viewers are havi...
Jonathan Richards | Posted 07.16.2009 | Entertainment
...and a curious peace came over the people... ...
AP | RYAN NAKASHIMA | Posted 07.14.2009 | Media
LOS ANGELES — Nearly 800,000 calls were received by a federal hot line this week from people confused about the nationwide move on Friday to dro...
Fortune's Stanley Bing | Posted 07.13.2009 | Media
Today we all become digital. Thanks to Congress, all analog life in these United States will cease and everything will be transformed from waves and particles into bits and bytes.
AP | PETER SVENSSON | Posted 07.13.2009 | Media
NEW YORK — TV shows were replaced by the hiss of static in perhaps 1 million U.S. homes Friday as stations ended their analog broadcasts and aba...
AP | Posted 07.12.2009 | Media
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama's administration says people who are still using analog television signals are running out of time. Commerc...
businesswire.com | Posted 07.11.2009 | Home
In its final update before the June 12, 2009 deadline for converting all full-powered U.S. television stations to digital transmission, The Nielsen Co...
New York Times | STEPHEN LABATON | Posted 07.06.2009 | Media
Millions of households will lose television reception next week when about 1,000 broadcasters around the nation shut off their analog signals and comp...
ProPublica.org | ProPublica.org | Posted 05.02.2009 | Home
by Christopher Weaver, ProPublica - April 1, 2009 8:00 am EDT Recovery.gov is the tip of the spear for the Obama...
AP | Posted 04.05.2009 | Media
NEW YORK — The agency that mails out coupons for digital TV converter boxes expects to eliminate its wait list in two and a half weeks, an offic...
Broadcasting & Cable | John Eggerton | Posted 03.23.2009 | Media
OK, so the DTV transition hasn't been perfect. While the early analog-cutoff of 421 TV stations on Feb. 17 has gone relative smoothly according to ...
AP | PETER SVENSSON | Posted 03.20.2009 | Media
NEW YORK — About a quarter of the nation's TV stations cut off their analog signals Tuesday, causing sets to go dark in households that were not...
AP | JOELLE TESSLER | Posted 03.07.2009 | Media
WASHINGTON — After weeks of debate, Congress is giving consumers four more months to prepare for the upcoming transition from analog to digital ...
Henryk A. Kowalczyk | Posted 03.01.2009 | Politics
Most Americans are prepared for the departure of analog TV. Those lost in transition would start screaming on 2/18, and within 24 hours, 90% of them would be assisted by someone.
AP | JOELLE TESSLER | Posted 02.28.2009 | Media
WASHINGTON — Bucking the Obama administration, House Republicans on Wednesday defeated a bill to delay the upcoming transition from analog to di...
AP | JOELLE TESSLER | Posted 02.27.2009 | Media
WASHINGTON — The Senate on Monday voted unanimously to postpone the upcoming transition from analog to digital television broadcasting by four m...
AP | JOELLE TESSLER | Posted 02.23.2009 | Media
WASHINGTON — The Senate appeared close to agreement late Thursday on a bill to delay next month's planned transition from analog to digital tele...
Reuters | Posted 02.16.2009 | Media
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democrats in the House of Representatives proposed $650 million to continue the coupon program for the transition to digital te...
AP | JOELLE TESSLER | Posted 02.09.2009 | Media
WASHINGTON — President-elect Barack Obama is urging Congress to postpone the Feb. 17 switch from analog to digital television broadcasting, argu...
Broadcasting & Cable | John Eggerton | Posted 02.07.2009 | Media
The DTV hard date appears to be softening. Consumers Union (CU) late Wednesday asked the heads of the congressional committees with telecommunication...
Wall Street Journal | Amy Schatz and Ben Charny | Posted 02.06.2009 | Media
Rattled by the recession, many consumers facing the upcoming switch to digital television are taking the cheap way out -- buying inexpensive converter...
New York Times | Eric A. Taub | Posted 01.22.2009 | Media
The Federal Communications Commission sponsored a Nascar race car as part of its effort to inform Americans that on Feb. 18, television signals transm...
TVWeek | Ira Teinowitz | Posted 11.23.2008 | Media
Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin is being named "Porker of the Month" by a government watchdog group thanks to the FCC's $355,0...
New York Times | Brian Stelter | Posted 06.04.2008 | Media
Nearly 25 million homes have at least one television set that will stop functioning in nine months, when the nation converts to digital over-the-air t...
Aaron Harber | Posted 07.19.2009 | Entertainment