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A record number of consumers called the Federal Communications Commission’s national helpline Thursday in response to a nationwide DTV soft test. The FCC helpline received more than 55,000 calls from consumers, a single-day record. The helpline has averaged 15,000 calls per day since May 1 and prior...
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FCC Commissioner Jonathan Adelstein will unveil the FCC’s new, enhanced digital transition Web site at the NAB Show on Tuesday. The new site, www.dtv.gov, will help guide consumers, providing them with local TV support and answers to questions about DTV equipment and installation. The site will also...
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The Federal Communications Commission has partnered with AmeriCorps National Civilian Community Corps to for a digital transition outreach effort. Forty-nine at-risk cities believe to be less prepared for the DTV switch have been targeted for the outreach effort. AmeriCorps NCAA members will help individuals...
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If Americans continue to prepare themselves at the current rate for the June 12 switch to all-digital television signals, the number of homes that aren’t ready by the deadline could be quite small, vindicating the Obama administration’s decision to push back the transition. Last week, the Nielsen Co...
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About 44% of the country’s TV stations aren’t going to wait for the national switch to digital television on June 12, instead dropping their analog broadcasting signals before the deadline. Stations that wanted to switch before June 12 had to notify the Federal Communications Commission by today and...
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The Federal Communications Commission is giving a reluctant go-ahead to a new round of early DTV switchovers, telling stations they can terminate their analog signals starting April 16, but imposing more conditions on network affiliates. The FCC said the network affiliates could switch only if at least...
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Despite the recent delay of the U.S. digital television transition from Feb. 17 until June 12, television stations across the country are still trying to answer consumers’ many questions, using their own airwaves and just about any other means available to them. Questions persist about old TV sets, new...
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For television executives, the early rush by 421 stations to switch to digital-only signals last week was an I-told-you-so moment, even if their public statements were more gracious. Despite a push for postponement, a majority of stations that made the transition to digital-only signals on Tuesday had...
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The Federal Communications Commission said calls to its digital-TV transition help lines decreased Wednesday, the day after 417 stations switched away from analog signals. The decline may suggest that more viewers were concerned about the prospect of the DTV transition than actually had problems with...
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Initial reports from some of the 421 stations that yesterday switched to digital TV signals suggest that the most dire predictions about the transition may have been overblown. Some DTV issues are surfacing, however, with antenna and other problems arising. Broadcasters, the Federal Communications Commission...
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General managers are tightening the bolts and preparing for the reaction to their digital transitions as a midnight DTV deadline looms for 421 stations. The Federal Communications Commission announced over the weekend that the original list of 368 stations approved to transition before June 12 had grown...
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The Federal Communications Commission said over the weekend that its final list shows 421 TV stations will switch over to digital-only signal by midnight tonight in the biggest switchover of the DTV transition. The number is a slight increase from the last FCC figures. Originally 491 stations sought...
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The Federal Communications Commission late Wednesday rejected, at least temporarily, a quarter of the requests from the 491 TV stations that had asked to switch to digital-only signals on Feb. 17. President Barack Obama earlier Wednesday signed legislation pushing back the national switch to June 12...
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President Barack Obama today signed legislation postponing the national digital TV transition until June 12. “During these challenging economic times, the needs of American consumers are a top priority of my administration,” the President said in a statement. The signing caps a month of political back...
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The Federal Communications Commission is reporting that 491 TV stations are seeking to go ahead with the digital TV changeover Feb. 17, despite congressional action pushing back the national changeover to June 12. The FCC said those 491 stations are in addition to the 190 stations that have already terminated...