[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, Were 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 nations 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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