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The future of broadcast television is mobile. At least that was the message at the National Association of Broadcasters’ NAB Show last week in Las Vegas. While the 83,000 attendees at the annual convention—down about 20% from last year—encountered 3-D TV displays, super-hi-def TV and cheaper cameras...
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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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In the latest digital news programming initiative for local broadcasters, NBC’s flagship station WNBC-TV in New York is launching a 24-hour local information and lifestyle subchannel today. The new subchannel, dubbed “New York Nonstop,” has the potential to reach 5.7 million digital homes in the New...
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Not only are stations around the country in the midst of shedding their analog signals forever, their news departments are tasked with creatively covering the drawn-out digital transition in their newscasts, too. The massive shift from the analog world to the crisp clear digital one is a major news event...
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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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Channeling Larry King once again… CNBC's Rick Santelli Rick Santelli, the CNBC blowhard who moronically lashed out at President Obama’s mortgage rescue plan last week in a much-publicized rant , certainly had every right to speak his mind as he did. And I have every right to never watch CNBC again...
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For San Diego TV stations, Tuesday, Feb. 17, can’t come soon enough. As one of the major markets expecting to transition to a digital-only signal this week, San Diego station general managers said their market is ready to make the switch, despite the government’s determination that the nation at large...
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In the end, a bad brew of poor planning and politics led Congress to delay the nation’s transition to all-digital television signals by three months to June 12. In the poor planning column: An underfunded coupon program to help pay for analog converter boxes; public outreach in some markets that raised...
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The congressional decision to postpone to June the switch to digital television has placed a crucial decision in the hands of stations: Delay or proceed? If stations go forward and switch to digital broadcast signals on the original Feb. 17 date, they may leave unprepared viewers in the dark. For TVWeek's...
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On soap operas, the sexy leads will often kiss, date, mate, hiss, throw things, break up, make up and kiss again. And that works on a soap. But the whole on-again-off-again thing isn’t quite so cute when it comes to the digital television transition. Many consumers are fed up with the mixed messages...
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On Tuesday, the House of Representatives will vote on whether the transition to digital broadcast television will be delayed, setting off a new scramble by broadcasters to adjust to a changing DTV switch deadline. After a political back-and-forth that kept station managers off-balance for two weeks,...
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A sampling of fare available for broadcasters’ digital subchannels: LATV: A Hispanic-themed bilingual channel targeted to the 18- to 34-year-old demographic with music, lifestyle and entertainment programming. Retro Television Network: Features popular television shows from the past such as “Greatest...
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A Capitol Hill agreement to postpone the national digital TV transition from Feb. 17 to June 12 could alter not only the date of the country’s digital changeover but the way it plays out. Assuming the agreement holds—Senate Republicans still could balk—the pact anticipates more of a rolling switchover...
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If Hawaii is any indication, the digital transition bogeyman isn’t as ominous and frightening as once thought, with TV station general managers reporting a smooth transition since the state converted to DTV on Jan. 17. “I think [the transition] went very well,” said Mike Rosenberg, general manager of...