Telecom Chairman: Digital TV Transition Date May Be Delayed
The DTV hard date appears to be softening. Consumers Union (CU) late Wednesday asked the heads of the congressional committees with telecommunication...
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...
Reuters | Kim Dixon | Posted 01.26.2009 | Media
U.S. consumers who wait too long to request government coupons to subsidize converter boxes for the digital television transition in February may come...
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...
Shelly Palmer | Posted 12.11.2008 | Media
This past week's election was truly historic, but for technogeeks there was another equally important vote on Tuesday. The FCC voted in favor of developing the use of white-space television spectrum.
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...
AP | Posted 11.17.2008 | Media
LOS ANGELES — Hoping to rev up awareness for the transition to digital TV, the Federal Communications Commission is putting up $350,000 to spons...
Reuters | Kim Dixon | Posted 11.15.2008 | Media
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A pending mandatory switch of all U.S. televisions to digital will be messy, a federal communications official said on Tuesday,...
AP | JOHN DUNBAR | Posted 10.10.2008 | Media
WILMINGTON, N.C. — With the flick of an 8-foot switch at midday Monday, this Southern city became the first market in the U.S. to make the chang...
MediaWeek | Katy Bachman | Posted 09.28.2008 | Media
The vast majority of active full power TV stations, 96 percent, are ready or will be ready to make the transition to full digital service by the Feb. ...
Variety | William Triplett | Posted 09.20.2008 | Media
Coming soon to a town hall near you: the Federal Communications Commission with a message about how to survive the impending switch to all-digital tel...
Washington Post | Kim Hart | Posted 06.18.2008 | Media
Nearly half of the households that could lose television service after the transition to digital broadcasting are still unprepared for the switch, acc...
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...
BusinessWeek | Olga Kharif | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
The picture has been going out on Tom Gilbert's quarter-century-old rabbit-ear Sony (SNE) TV set for years. But what finally forced the Los Angeles re...
Broadcasting & Cable | John Eggerton | Posted 02.07.2009 | Media