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Home Theater June 17, 2010 Mark Fleischmann	DTV Transition Is a Year Old Are you enjoying your free over-the-air HDTV?
AskMen.com	No More TV For Millions More than 2 million households are in danger of seeing their major broadcast TV channels disappear into a fuzz of static when analog service ends Friday, according to surveys.
Home Theater February 19, 2009	Hello, FCC? My TV Went Dark On the day after the nation's TV stations ceased analog broadcasting, the Federal Communications Commission received 28,000 phone calls.
Home Theater September 11, 2008	Wilmington, NC Lives the DTV Future Now Folks in Wilmington, North Carolina are getting digital signals exclusively in a trial run for the overall U.S. DTV transition.
Home Theater May 7, 2009	The Nation Is Getting DTV-Readier According to a new poll from the National Association of Broadcasters, 82 percent of broadcast-dependent TV households fully prepared for the DTV transition.
Home Theater April 7, 2008	Consumers Won't Trash Analog TVs A new study shows most of the obsolete TV sets will find loving new homes.
PC Magazine March 1, 2009 Sascha Segan	Don't Delay the DTV Transition We've waited long enough for the analog to digital television conversion. It's time to switch over.
Home Theater April 15, 2008	Estimated DTV Coverage Woes Worsen The latest research shows that 9.2 million households will lose at least some channels after the DTV transition.
Home Theater June 5, 2009 Mark Fleischmann	DTV Transition One Week Away On June 12, 2009, more than half of the nation's television broadcasters will make the final switch to digital signals, shutting off analog forever.
Home Theater May 22, 2009	FCC Girds for Analog Armageddon The Federal Communications Commission is going into high gear to ensure that the final stage of the DTV transition goes smoothly.
Home Theater March 20, 2009	More Stations to Make Early DTV Transition The DTV transition scenario continued to develop this week when the Federal Communications Commission announced that 158 more stations plan to complete their switch from analog to digital broadcasting before June 12's final drop-dead deadline.
Home Theater January 27, 2009	Senate Partly Delays DTV Transition The drive to delay the DTV transition cleared the Senate last night. However, the legislation now has a new twist - the delay is voluntary.
Home Theater June 16, 2009 Mark Fleischmann	FCC Gets 900,000 DTV Panic Calls The Federal Communications Commission has fielded more than 900,000 calls since analog television broadcasting was shut down on Friday June 12.
Home Theater March 19, 2009	FCC Tweaks DTV Transition Scenario The Federal Communications Commission is using what it learned in February to set down rules for the remainder of the stations that complete the transition in June.
Home Theater February 4, 2009	It's Official: DTV Transition Botched The on-again, off-again effort to delay the DTV transition from February 17 to June 12 has overcome its biggest obstacle.
Home Theater January 13, 2009	DTV Transition May Be Delayed Acting in response to consumer-group complaints, the Obama transition team has asked the Federal Communications to delay the DTV transition.
Home Theater February 29, 2008	Secret Shoppers Find DTV Confusion Retailers are not giving consumers accurate information about the transition to digital television, according to a report issued by U.S. PIRG, the federation of state-based Public Interest Research Groups.
Home Theater July 30, 2009 Mark Fleischmann	DTV STB Coupon Deadline Nears July 31 is the last day to get a $40 subsidy coupon for a DTV set-top box.
Home Theater May 20, 2009	FCC to Do 'Soft Test' of DTV Transition Analog TV broadcasts will be interrupted three times on May 21, 2009 with a message heralding the end of analog broadcasting, coming on June 12.
Home Theater May 6, 2010 Mark Fleischmann	HD Signals Lag HDTVs Some homes have the sets but can't get the broadcasts.
Popular Mechanics October 2008 Rob Sabin	Everything You Need to Know About the Digital TV Transition In reality, the digital TV transition isn't all that complicated. For most people, it is a nonissue, and for everyone else, adjusting to the switch will require minimal effort and expense.
Home Theater August 31, 2007	U.K. Supermarket Sells STB for $20 The U.S. will award coupons to households to buy digital-to-analog conversion boxes.
Home Theater June 8, 2009	Obama: Get Ready for the DTV Transition President Obama has added his voice to the chorus of warnings about the impending DTV transition.
Home Theater February 25, 2008	Feds Mail Analog-TV Adapter Coupons Your $40 federal subsidy designed to keep your old TV going is in the mail -- if you've requested it.
Home Theater October 18, 2007	Best Buy Banishes Obsolete TVs Best Buy stopped selling analog sets on October 1, 2007. No longer will confused low-end consumers take home obsolete TVs. A bright new DTV world is dawning.
PC Magazine March 19, 2009 John Brandon	Falling Off the Digital Cliff Even with a converter box, some will be left out in the cold after the DTV switchover.
Home Theater January 22, 2009	Hawaii Enters DTV Age Early Hawaii became the first state in the union to turn off analog television signals, thus entering the age of DTV at least a month earlier than the deadline for the other 49 states.
Home Theater June 11, 2009	DTV Transition Deadline Is Tomorrow Tomorrow, June 12, 2009 is the final deadline for the transition from analog to digital television broadcasting. Here's the DTV transition thought of the day: Does it matter?
Home Theater June 9, 2009	FCC Maps DTV Losers On Friday the Federal Communications Commission updated its list of 319 stations in which two percent or more of households would lose TV service in the switch from analog to digital signals.
Home Theater July 11, 2005 Darryl Wilkinson	Money for Nothing (to Watch) How many analog TV viewers are there and should they get a DTV tuner subsidy when there's nothing to watch?
Home Theater March 10, 2009	Most of DTV Transition Yet to Come The percentage of antenna-dependent U.S. households to be affected by the next phase of the transition to digital television broadcasting, scheduled for June, will be a whopping 84.5 percent.
Home Theater January 3, 2008 Mark Fleischman	U.S. DTV Penetration Hits Milestone Digital television has passed its most significant milestone.
Home Theater July 30, 2007	Will DTV Transition Go Off the Rails? Elected representatives are fretting that some analog-TV viewers may not have gotten the memo that analog television broadcasting is scheduled to end on February 18, 2009.
InternetNews January 23, 2007 Roy Mark	DTV Bill Pushes Educational Outreach New legislation would mandate consumer programs by broadcasters, retailers and the FCC.
Home Theater March 14, 2008 Mark Fleischmann	DTV Broadcasts to Get Field Testing The Federal Communications Commission has agreed to a new set of field tests to gauge exactly what will happen to antenna-dependent viewers in February 2009.
Home Theater February 14, 2008	DTV Coverage May Lose Viewers As many as six million viewers may lose reception of some channels, according to a study.
Home Theater June 30, 2009	Broadcast DTV May Poach Cable Customers More than half of viewers say they may switch to over-the-air digital television from cable or satellite service.
Home Theater November 17, 2008	FCC Green-Lights DTV Range Fix The Federal Communications Commission has green-lighted distributed transmission systems to essentially allow the usual single broadcast tower to be supplemented with additional transmitters.
Home Theater October 30, 2009 Mark Fleischmann	Will FCC Revoke DTV Spectrum? Wireless broadband may take precedence over digital TV.
Home Theater June 12, 2007	Two DTV Makers Violate Tuner Mandate The Federal Communications Commission has fined two up-and-coming DTV makers for failing to build digital tuners into their flat-panel sets.
Home Theater September 19, 2008	FCC: DTV Test 99 Percent Successful The nation's first full test of the DTV transition has been 99 percent successful, says the chair of the FCC.
AskMen.com March 9, 2003 Bernie Alexander	TV Ratings Demystified Have you ever wondered why some shows remain on television while others are yanked faster than donuts at your local Krispy Kreme? It's all about whether audiences are interested enough for networks to justify keeping certain shows on the air. This is measured with TV ratings.
InternetNews September 16, 2008 Kenneth Corbin	Are We Ready for DTV? After a DTV test launch in North Carolina, a House subcommittee questions the country's preparedness for February's nationwide transition.
Popular Mechanics January 23, 2009 Pete Putman	TV's Analog Push-Back: Delaying the Switch to Digital Television Delayed already for more than two years already, problems are popping up that may push the digital television transition date back even further.
Home Theater November 11, 2008 Mark Fleischmann	NY Tries Brief Analog TV Shutoff Analog television channels went dark for two minutes in the New York metropolitan area a few weeks ago, in an early trial run for the DTV transition, scheduled for February 2009.
InternetNews March 12, 2007 Roy Mark	Feds Tune In DTV Subsidy Plan All U.S. households will be eligible for two $40 coupons to help defray the cost of digital converter boxes that analog television sets will need to view over-the-air broadcasting after Feb. 17, 2009.
Home Theater December 5, 2007	DTV Stations Move Around UHF will not be the exclusive home of DTV channels following the transition from analog broadcasting. Some will remain on VHF, contrary to what's been widely reported.
CIO November 15, 2005 Grant Gross	Help for Emergency Responders The push for digital TV would hasten better communications.
Home Theater February 17, 2009	Happy DTV Transition Day, Part 1 Today is the originally scheduled date of the DTV transition. Some television stations will make the transition from antiquated analog to cool new digital broadcasting on this very date. Others will have to wait till June 12. Here's a look at the current tally.
BusinessWeek September 24, 2007 Burt Helm	Cable Takes A Ratings Hit Cable companies will suffer under Nielsen's new system, which counts who's watching the ads.