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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.
InternetNews September 8, 2008 Kenneth Corbin	Dawn of the Digital Television Era First DTV switchover today in test market Wilmington, N.C., in advance of nationwide transition in February.
Home Theater June 17, 2010 Mark Fleischmann	DTV Transition Is a Year Old Are you enjoying your free over-the-air HDTV?
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.
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 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 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 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 May 27, 2009	Analog-Shutoff Test Hits a Nerve A single-day record of 55,000 calls flooded help lines staffed by the Federal Communications Commission last Thursday, May 21, after TV stations across the nation broadcast a series of warnings about the shutoff of analog television signals scheduled for 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 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.
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 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?
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 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 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 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 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 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.
Home Theater May 30, 2008	Nielsen: Million of Analog-TV Homes Unready Nearly 10 million American homes are "completely unready" for the DTV transition, according to a Nielsen Media Research.
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 October 26, 2007	FCC Slaps Retailers on Analog TV Labeling The fines are for selling analog televisions without adequately warning consumers that these sets will become obsolete with the end of analog broadcasting on February 17, 2009.
InternetNews February 11, 2009 Kenneth Corbin	DTV Snags Loom Large Despite Delay FCC chairman warns of widespread confusion as many stations plan to shut off analog signals next week.
Home Theater February 13, 2009	FCC Slows Some DTV Transitions In the latest twist, the Federal Communications Commission is rattling its regulatory saber at some of the stations that are planning to cut off analog television broadcasts next week.
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.
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 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 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 7, 2008	Cable Must Carry Broadcast Channels Following the DTV transition next February, cable systems will be required to carry broadcast channels.
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.
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 May 22, 2007	Will Box Shortage Mar DTV Transition? TV station owners are worried that a lack of convertors may let analog sets fade to black after the transition to digital television.
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.
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 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.
Home Theater August 27, 2007	Free Analog Cable Service Urged A coalition of small cable operators is urging Congress to let them provide free analog cable service following the switchover to digital television broadcasting.
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.
Home Theater September 14, 2007	FCC Adopts Cable Transition Rules This week the Federal Communications Commission finally decided on "must carry" rules. All channels on your local airwaves must be available to all cable subscribers, whether their TVs are digital or analog.
Home Theater February 11, 2009 Mark Fleischmann	Who Will Make the DTV Cut? Yesterday the Federal Communications Commission released a list of TV stations that intend go all-digital next week, cutting off analog transmissions.
Home Theater January 3, 2008 Mark Fleischman	U.S. DTV Penetration Hits Milestone Digital television has passed its most significant milestone.
InternetNews February 17, 2005 Roy Mark	House Considers Subsidizing DTV Transition A new proposal aims to speed broadcasters' move to digital and open spectrum for advanced wireless services.
Home Theater September 18, 2007 Mark Fleischmann	Satellite Problems Loom in DTV Transition Until now concerns over the transition to digital television, scheduled for 2009, have centered on broadcast-dependent viewers. But satellite viewers may be in for trouble too.
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.
BusinessWeek January 23, 2006 Stephen H. Wildstrom	Analog TV: Fade To Black On Feb. 17, 2009 Congress will decree that broadcasters must end analog transmissions on that date and switch to the digital technology they have been phasing in for several years. If you are planning to buy a television, make sure it's digital-ready.
Home Theater February 6, 2009	Networks to Keep Analog Until Bitter End Several major TV networks have announced that they plan for their owned affiliate stations to keep analog signals on the airwaves until the final deadline in June.
Home Theater March 24, 2008	Satellite Providers Can Ax Local HD Local stations suffered a setback in the transition to digital television last week when the Federal Communications Commission ruled that satellite providers needn't carry local signals in HD till 2013.
Home Theater February 7, 2008 Mark Fleischmann	Cable Nets Hit FCC on Dual Channels Will dual digital and analog versions of local broadcast TV stations push small cable networks out of cable systems? That's what some cable networks fear. And they're voicing their fear by suing the Federal Communications Commission.