[LINK] US digital tv switch going ahead -- sort of

Jan Whitaker jwhit at janwhitaker.com
Thu Feb 12 09:37:52 AEDT 2009


[I'm posting these in hopes that someone on Link 
may be advising govt on what is happening there 
so we don't go through similar confusion. There 
was another story this week that despite the 
running out of the subsidisation coupons/budget, 
there probably weren't enough stbs anyway]


Sorry, Congress, We’re Not Delaying Digital TV

By <http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/author/brian-stelter/>Brian Stelter

 From our colleagues at TV Decoder:

“The next four months may prove to be a rolling 
transition for the nation’s estimated 1,700 local 
TV stations,” 
<http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/05/business/media/05digital.html>The 
New York Times reported last week. Now the 
Federal Communications Commission is confirming 
that, as expected, the digital TV switch will 
occur as scheduled for hundreds of stations.

According to the F.C.C., almost 500 local 
stations have indicated that they will start 
broadcasting solely in digital next Tuesday, the 
date of the original digital TV transition. 
Already, 190 stations ­ including all those in 
Hawaii ­ have turned off their analog signals. 
Most stations are broadcasting in both formats until the deadline.

Legislation passed by Congress last week allowed 
stations to broadcast in analog form until June 
12, a four-month extension of the original 
deadline. The legislation permitted some stations 
to turn off their analog signals before June, 
meaning that some stations in a given market will 
be switching before others. 
<http://tvdecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/02/11/hundreds-of-tv-stations-will-drop-analog-signals-next-week/>Read 
more




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