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Telecom Chairman: Digital TV Transition Date May Be Delayed

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...

Government Running Out Of Digital TV Coupons

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...

Digital TV Converter Coupons In Short Supply

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...

Digital TV Transition Still Largely Misunderstood

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...

White Space -- A Connected Future

Shelly Palmer | Posted 12.11.2008 | Media


Shelly Palmer

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.

FCC Chair Kevin Martin Named "Porker Of The Month" For $355K NASCAR Sponsorhip

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...

FCC Buys NASCAR Ads To Promote Digital TV

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...

Digital TV Switch Will Be Messy: FCC Official

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,...

Digital TV Switch Begins In Wilmington, NC

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...

FCC Survey: 96% Of TV Stations Ready For Digital Switch

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. ...

FCC To Go On National Tour Explaining Digital Switch

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...

Many TV Viewers Unprepared For Switch To Digital Broadcasting

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...

10 Million American Homes "Completely Unready" For Switch To Digital TV: Report

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...

Recession Or Not, Digital TVs Still Selling

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...