...and a curious peace came over the people... ...
Yahoo! Finance | Peter Svensson, AP Technology Writer | Posted 07.13.2009 | Business
NEW YORK (AP) -- TV stations across the U.S. started cutting their analog signals Friday morning, ending a six-decade era for the technology and like...
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...
washingtonpost.com | Peter Whoriskey and Kim Hart | Posted 03.13.2009 | Media
With millions of U.S. viewers still apparently unprepared for the nation's switch to digital TV, nearly 500 full-power television stations across the ...
Stephanie Vaughn Hapke | Posted 03.09.2009 | Media
I'm sorry, but if people have not heeded the warnings by now, they either do not watch enough TV for this to be an issue, or they just don't care.
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 02.09.2009 | 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...
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. ...
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...
Jonathan Richards | Posted 07.16.2009 | Entertainment