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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 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 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 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 Mark Fleischmann |
Some DTV Stations Suffer in Transition Some two dozen DTV stations who are having trouble reaching their viewers in the wake of the DTV transition are receiving help from the Federal Communications Commission, reports the Associated Press.  |
Home Theater October 19, 2010 Mark Fleischmann |
NY Viewers Bruised in Carriage Smash In cable rebroadcast dispute, two major local channels go dark.  |
BusinessWeek June 25, 2009 Tom Lowry |
Digital TV: Where Are All Those Eyeballs? Digital TV let local broadcasters create subchannels for niche programs. But a sour ad climate and distribution problems are preventing any revenue boost.  |
IEEE Spectrum December 2012 Lynn Claudy |
TV's Future: The Broadcast Empire Strikes Back New digital technologies could put over-the-air TV back in vogue in the United States and around the world.  |
IEEE Spectrum August 2007 Willie D. Jones |
Low Power to the People A South Carolina city is the latest battleground for low-watt community radio.  |
BusinessWeek March 1, 2004 Catherine Yang |
Keeping Little Voices In Big Media The FCC should at least install minimum guarantees for independent opinions. Has deregulation gone to far?  |
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 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.  |
Popular Mechanics May 5, 2008 Glenn Derene |
Digital Transition Looms, but Do Americans Have a Right to TV? A look at how much it costs to get everyone on board the digital bandwagon, and how the cost compares to what the government spends on other things.  |
Wired June 2000 Alex Markels |
Radio Active Up against the megastations in a battle for the airwaves, do-it-yourself DJs are deploying two potent weapons - 100-watt transmitters and the global reach of the Web.  |
Mother Jones August 1999 Alex Markels |
Low Power To The People Muted by the high cost of broadcast licenses, diverse voices may yet step up to the mike, thanks to a new FCC proposal  |
PC World May 2004 Yardena Arar |
HDTV Answer Guide Ready for next-generation television? Before you take the high-definition high dive, read this guide to the services, the sets, and more.  |
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.  |
IEEE Spectrum October 2005 Robert M. Rast |
The Dawn of Digital TV Analog television prepares to meet its doom, vacating valuable real estate in the radio spectrum -- and the band rush begins  |
PC Magazine May 21, 2009 Sascha Segan |
I Want My MemeTV The Digital Transition will TV make more interesting. For example, let's give 4chan.org a TV channel. Seriously.  |
Salon.com November 20, 2001 Eric Boehlert |
Is Clear Channel playing a "shell game"? Critics of the radio-industry giant charge that it is skirting federal ownership rules with puppet competitors...  |
PC Magazine June 20, 2007 Jennifer L. DeLeo |
Gearlog: Ready Your TV For HD By February 17, 2009, all U.S. TV stations will be required to switch to digital broadcasts.  |
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 Toys August 2005 James Russo |
Choosing a Home Satellite TV System DirecTV vs. Dish Network and Cable  |
BusinessWeek May 15, 2006 Jon Fine |
Local TV's Clear Shot At The Net Demand for video ads could be the local stations' salvation.  |
The Motley Fool March 12, 2004 Brian Gorman |
Indecent Proposal New indecency legislation may change the face of broadcasting.  |
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 September 1, 2009 Mark Fleischmann |
Court Knocks FCC Cable Limit Until recently, no single cable operator was allowed to dominate more than 30 percent of the U.S. market. But a court has thrown out the Federal Communications Commission's market cap, eliminating a rule that's been the law of the land since 1992.  |
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 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.  |
| Knowledge@Wharton |
Television's Digital Dilemma If the struggle over digital television in the U.S. were made into a TV show, it would be a tale of intrigue, backstabbing and hidden motives.  |
Home Theater September 2001 Mike Wood |
Home Theater Boot Camp: Receiving HDTV A three-step guide to receiving HDTV signals...  |
IEEE Spectrum October 2008 Tekla S. Perry |
Digital Dilemma Converting to digital television is supposed to be simple, but it's not.  |
IEEE Spectrum November 2008 Tekla S. Perry |
Unconverted Masses The switch to digital television is supposed to be simple. It's not  |
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 July 2, 2008 |
HD Radio Stations: More Power, Please FM stations are lobbying the FCC for permission to boost their signals and expand their audience.  |
The Motley Fool January 5, 2007 David Lee Smith |
A Business News Bonanza? A new business channel may be just around the corner.  |
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.  |
BusinessWeek December 6, 2004 Frederik Balfour |
TV In China: The Door Opens A Crack Beijing is letting in foreign media investors. But it's still leery of Western programs.  |
PC Magazine March 14, 2007 Dan Evans |
Tune in to Digital Radio Digital broadcasting and higher-definition signals are revolutionizing television. Can they do the same for another traditionally analog medium -- the radio?  |
InternetNews September 12, 2007 Nicholas Carlson |
Broadcasters Slam Google, Microsoft in Spectrum Spat Executives say tech's plan for spectrum "white spaces" would lead to "devastating interference."  |
Home Theater June 19, 2005 Darryl Wilkinson |
Who Cares if Analog TV Goes Dark? The Consumer Electronics Association has some news for the 33.6 million of you who use your television to view over-the-air TV programming - get a life, or rather, get a new Digital TV.  |
Home Theater November 10, 2006 Darryl Wilkinson |
Live HD from Space NASA plans to once again make space history on November 15th when it broadcasts the first live High Definition Television images from the International Space Station.  |
The Motley Fool February 26, 2007 David Lee Smith |
CBS' Ship Comes In CBS announced last week it had completed a series of agreements with cable systems companies. Investors, stay tuned.  |
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.  |
Home Theater March 2003 Peter H. Putman |
Got HDTV? Home Theater's guide to using indoor and outdoor antennas to pick up digital TV broadcasts  |
Reason January 2004 Ben Compaine |
Domination Fantasies Does Rupert Murdoch control the media? Does anyone?  |
Salon.com June 28, 2001 Eric Boehlert |
One big happy channel? The Telecommunications Reform Act handed over control of the radio airwaves to a chosen few. Will TV be next?  |
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.  |
BusinessWeek May 21, 2009 Jon Fine |
Why Broadcast Networks Can't Just Turn Cable Sure, CBS and the others could garner paying audiences. But the broadcast network system is far too complex for a switch to happen easily.  |
ifeminists February 18, 2004 Wendy McElroy |
Censorship Is Not Solution for Trashy TV Janet Jackson's pop-up breast during SuperBowl halftime did not create the Broadcast Decency Enforcement Act of 2004. But it will propel passage of that Act, the consequences of which may be far worse than a bit of trashy exhibitionism on TV.  |