newteevee.com - 2/17/2009
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Well, today was supposed to be the big deadline for the national switch to digital television. While that date got pushed back to June 12, as of midnight tonight, 641 stations in the U.S. (36 percent of the country) will have shut off their analog broadcast signal.
The places where many or ...
reuters.com - 2/11/2009
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reuters.com —
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - About 40 percent of the
nation's hundreds of TV stations will be broadcasting completely...
in digital signals next week, even after regulators delayed a mandatory nationwide switch to "DTV" by months. The Federal Communications ...
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Many local TV stations to go ahead with DTV ...
broadcastingcable.com - 2/17/2009
eweek.com - 2/21/2009
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eweek.com —
The switch to digital television has begun in
earnest and, so far, there have been complaints from...
consumers. The National Association of Broadcasters reported that local stations are getting between 50 and 200 calls from customers but most calls are ...
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DTV Switch Proceeds with Few Problems
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GigaOM Network —
... Five Million Homes Not Ready for DTV; despite 641 stations going digital as of yesterday, 4.4 percent of the country was unprepared for the switch. ( ...
DTV D-Day is Here! [NewTeeVee]
GigaOM Network —
... After a bump in the road that lasted four whole months, the national switch to digital TV transmission is upon us. We presume that this won’t impact most of our tech-savvy readership, but there are still nearly 3 million U.S. homes completely unprepared for the transition. While that’s a sizable chunk, it’s better than the 6 million that were unprepared around the original switch date. Some 641 TV stations kept the original switch date back in February and there’s been a test since then and the ...
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We’re in the midst of the national digital television switch , an apparent source of inspiration for conspiracy theorists, who are coming out with warnings that DTV will result in big brother-like surveillance, mind control, weather control and even…(dunh, dunh, DUNH!) a massive ...
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