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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 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. |
InternetNews January 30, 2009 Kenneth Corbin |
House Likely to Pass DTV Delay Bill Next Week After House Republicans shot down a first attempt, the Senate passes a second bill on concerns that millions of Americans aren't ready for the conversion. |
Home Theater January 16, 2009 |
Three-Month DTV Delay Urged Sen. John Rockefeller has introduced a bill that would delay the switchover from analog to digital broadcasting from the currently scheduled February 17th to June 12th. |
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. |
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. |
InternetNews June 9, 2005 Roy Mark |
FCC Tuning In DTV The Federal Communications Commission told TV makers today they must comply with a July 1 mandate to carry digital tuners in half of their most popular models. |
PC Magazine November 30, 2005 Sebastian Rupley |
Switching to Digital TV The national transition to digital television may be upon us. |
InternetNews December 19, 2005 Roy Mark |
DTV Transition Date Set The House approves the DTV transition date and the Senate expected to agree today. |
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 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 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 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 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. |
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 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. |
InternetNews October 14, 2005 Roy Mark |
Senate Panel Eyes Vote on Digital TV Switch Tech executives urge Congress to set a hard deadline for broadcasters to shift completely to digital signals of no later than 2009. The vacated analog signals would be given to first responders and auctioned. A vote on legislation could come Wednesday. |
InternetNews October 24, 2005 Roy Mark |
Lawmakers Disagree on DTV Deadline, Subsidies The U.S. House and Senate are $2 billion and four months apart in their legislative efforts to finally wean Americans off analog broadcasting. |
InternetNews May 24, 2005 Roy Mark |
Barton Slaps Hard Deadline on DTV Transition House panel prepares for the first hearings on legislation stating that broadcasters must cease transmitting programs in analog format. |
InternetNews May 4, 2005 Roy Mark |
GOP Blames Dems for Slow Tech Agenda Texas Republican Tom DeLay says the Democratic party is only paying lip service to high tech issues. |
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 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. |
InternetNews March 2, 2007 Roy Mark |
Dingell Dangles DTV Delay Chairman of House Energy and Commerce Committee slams digital converter box subsidy program. |
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. |
InternetNews December 21, 2005 Roy Mark |
DTV Bill Heads to President's Desk With President Bush's signature, over-the-air analog broadcasting will go dark in three years. |
Home Theater December 16, 2009 Mark Fleischmann |
Blare-Busting Bill Passes House Legislation that would control the abusive blare of television ads passed in the U.S. House of Representatives yesterday. |
InternetNews January 16, 2007 Roy Mark |
Coalition Pushes For DTV Transition Tech companies, trade groups urge Congress to hold fast to Feb. 17, 2009 cut-off as the end of analog broadcasting. |
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. |
InternetNews June 10, 2005 Roy Mark |
Telecom Reform? Don't Bet On It Republicans are proposing subsidies and Democrats are offering tax incentives, and it's both good news and bad news for technology. |
InternetNews February 18, 2009 Kenneth Corbin |
DTV Delay Can't Deter Verizon, White Spaces Fans The spectrum might be off-limits until June, but major telcos and tech firms are still pressing ahead with plans for the airwaves. |
InternetNews April 26, 2005 Roy Mark |
Tech to TV Execs: Get Off the Beachfront! A group of IT CEOs urges Congress to set a date certain for digital TV transition so spectrum can be opened for wireless broadband. |
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. |
InternetNews November 21, 2005 Roy Mark |
House Approves DTV Bill Television broadcasters have three years to clear analog spectrum for wireless broadband providers and first responders. |
InternetNews October 20, 2005 Roy Mark |
DTV Deadline to Vacate Spectrum Advances The Senate Commerce Committee voted today to boot broadcasters out of their analog spectrum by no later than April 7, 2009. After that date, broadcasters would air programs only in digital signals. |
InternetNews July 13, 2005 Roy Mark |
Broadcasters Agree to Hard Date DTV Transition After nine years of aggressive lobbying to slow the digital television transition, broadcasters are dropping their objections to a Jan. 1, 2009, deadline to end U.S. analog broadcasting. |
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. |
InternetNews June 9, 2006 Roy Mark |
House K.O.'s Net Neutrality Legislative language to make the controversial concept of network neutrality the law of the land failed in the U.S. House of Representatives. |
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. |
InternetNews June 17, 2005 Roy Mark |
McCain Stakes Claim on DTV Transition Bill John McCain introduced legislation setting a hard date of Jan. 1, 2009, for the United States to cease analog television broadcasting. |
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. |
CIO November 15, 2005 Grant Gross |
Help for Emergency Responders The push for digital TV would hasten better communications. |
InternetNews February 2, 2006 Roy Mark |
DTV Bill Heads to President's Desk Congress finally sent legislation Wednesday to President Bush that sets Feb. 17, 2009, as the end of analog broadcasting in the United States. After that, television sets must have digital tuners to receive an over-the-air signal. |
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 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. |
InternetNews June 7, 2006 Roy Mark |
Net Neutrality Time on The Floor The moment of truth for network neutrality may arrive as early as tomorrow in the U.S. House of Representatives. |
Chemistry World June 2, 2010 Rebecca Trager |
Basic research bill backed in US The Democrats have scored big in a political fight underway in the US Congress over legislation to expand government funding for basic research and science programs. |
Reason April 2008 Jeff Flake |
Passing Bad Laws A short guided tour -- by a congressman -- of the worst bills currently in Congress. |
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. |
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. |
InternetNews November 1, 2004 Roy Mark |
Tech Lacks Traction in Presidential Race Pollsters, politicians and pundits have made it well known that the 2004 presidential race is tight for many reasons. But one thing is for certain: Technology policy is not one of them. |