For the second time this week, the chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee is urging broadcasters not to go ahead with the digital TV changeover before June 12. In a statement today, Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., suggested broadcasters should act in the public interest and delay any move. Sen. Rockefeller...
Hours after the House failure to delay the digital TV transition, the outlines of a plan for a new House vote next week started emerging. The first step: A new vote in the U.S. Senate on a slightly revised DTV bill. Where do you stand on delaying the DTV switch? Make your voice heard in TVWeek's...
Congress could make official a delay in the digital TV transition to June 12 as soon as tomorrow, sending legislation postponing the digital TV transition to President Barack Obama before week’s end. On Monday night, hours after the Senate unanimously approved delaying the DTV transition from Feb. 17...
A bipartisan agreement to delay the country’s digital TV changeover from Feb. 17 to June 12 was announced Thursday night by Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va. Sen. Rockefeller said a Senate vote on the legislation likely would take place next week. Sen. Rockefeller had earlier...
The U.S. Senate could vote as early as today to delay the digital TV changeover to June 12. Senate staffers said today that because of the limited time before the Feb. 17 transition, the Senate leadership is hoping to short-circuit normal committee procedures and take directly to the floor legislation...
Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., is proposing the transition to all-digital television signals be delayed until June 12. The current DTV-switch date is Feb. 17, but President-elect Barack Obama last week asked legislators to push the date back. (Editor: Baumann)
The incoming chairmen of the Senate and House committees that oversee the Federal Communications Commission are urging its chairman, Kevin Martin, to devote his remaining days to the digital TV transition and to postpone FCC action on several controversial issues. The warning from U.S. Rep. Henry Waxman...
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