With the Feb. 17 switch to all-digital television signals heading for a delay—most likely until June—TV stations are contending with a whole new world of uncertainties and potential costs. When President-elect Barack Obama last week called for a delay, media companies including News Corp., NBC Universal...
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Filed under: Broadcast, Digital, DTV, Print Edition, FCC, NTIA, John Podesta, Department of Commerce, Brack Obama, TV Stations
Consumers Union is asking Congress and the White House to delay the digital TV transition from Feb. 17, citing problems with the government coupon program for DTV converter boxes and other worries. In letters today to President George W. Bush, President-elect Barack Obama and U.S. Rep. Henry Waxman,...
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Wed, Jan 7 2009
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In a new challenge to the digital TV transition, the government’s program offering $40 coupons for TV converter boxes is out of money, weeks faster than anyone expected. The Department of Commerce today announced that it now has committed the entire $1.34 billion available for the coupons and is starting...