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Home Theater July 30, 2007	Will DTV Transition Go Off the Rails? Elected representatives are fretting that some analog-TV viewers may not have gotten the memo that analog television broadcasting is scheduled to end on February 18, 2009.
Home Theater June 8, 2009	Obama: Get Ready for the DTV Transition President Obama has added his voice to the chorus of warnings about the impending DTV transition.
Home Theater February 19, 2009	Hello, FCC? My TV Went Dark On the day after the nation's TV stations ceased analog broadcasting, the Federal Communications Commission received 28,000 phone calls.
InternetNews March 2, 2007 Roy Mark	Dingell Dangles DTV Delay Chairman of House Energy and Commerce Committee slams digital converter box subsidy program.
InternetNews January 23, 2007 Roy Mark	DTV Bill Pushes Educational Outreach New legislation would mandate consumer programs by broadcasters, retailers and the FCC.
Home Theater October 30, 2009 Mark Fleischmann	Will FCC Revoke DTV Spectrum? Wireless broadband may take precedence over digital TV.
InternetNews March 12, 2007 Roy Mark	Feds Tune In DTV Subsidy Plan All U.S. households will be eligible for two $40 coupons to help defray the cost of digital converter boxes that analog television sets will need to view over-the-air broadcasting after Feb. 17, 2009.
Home Theater June 17, 2010 Mark Fleischmann	DTV Transition Is a Year Old Are you enjoying your free over-the-air HDTV?
InternetNews September 16, 2008 Kenneth Corbin	Are We Ready for DTV? After a DTV test launch in North Carolina, a House subcommittee questions the country's preparedness for February's nationwide transition.
PC Magazine March 1, 2009 Sascha Segan	Don't Delay the DTV Transition We've waited long enough for the analog to digital television conversion. It's time to switch over.
Home Theater May 30, 2008	Nielsen: Million of Analog-TV Homes Unready Nearly 10 million American homes are "completely unready" for the DTV transition, according to a Nielsen Media Research.
Home Theater February 29, 2008	Secret Shoppers Find DTV Confusion Retailers are not giving consumers accurate information about the transition to digital television, according to a report issued by U.S. PIRG, the federation of state-based Public Interest Research Groups.
InternetNews October 24, 2005 Roy Mark	Lawmakers Disagree on DTV Deadline, Subsidies The U.S. House and Senate are $2 billion and four months apart in their legislative efforts to finally wean Americans off analog broadcasting.
Home Theater August 27, 2007	Free Analog Cable Service Urged A coalition of small cable operators is urging Congress to let them provide free analog cable service following the switchover to digital television broadcasting.
InternetNews July 13, 2005 Roy Mark	Broadcasters Agree to Hard Date DTV Transition After nine years of aggressive lobbying to slow the digital television transition, broadcasters are dropping their objections to a Jan. 1, 2009, deadline to end U.S. analog broadcasting.
Home Theater May 22, 2007	Will Box Shortage Mar DTV Transition? TV station owners are worried that a lack of convertors may let analog sets fade to black after the transition to digital television.
Home Theater March 10, 2009	Most of DTV Transition Yet to Come The percentage of antenna-dependent U.S. households to be affected by the next phase of the transition to digital television broadcasting, scheduled for June, will be a whopping 84.5 percent.
Home Theater June 16, 2009 Mark Fleischmann	FCC Gets 900,000 DTV Panic Calls The Federal Communications Commission has fielded more than 900,000 calls since analog television broadcasting was shut down on Friday June 12.
Home Theater May 24, 2007	CEA to NAB: We Got Your Boxes Right Here In response to a public challenge from the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB), the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) says they will support the switch to digital television by timely delivery of digital-to-analog convertors.
Home Theater May 20, 2009	FCC to Do 'Soft Test' of DTV Transition Analog TV broadcasts will be interrupted three times on May 21, 2009 with a message heralding the end of analog broadcasting, coming on June 12.
Home Theater May 22, 2009	FCC Girds for Analog Armageddon The Federal Communications Commission is going into high gear to ensure that the final stage of the DTV transition goes smoothly.
AskMen.com	No More TV For Millions More than 2 million households are in danger of seeing their major broadcast TV channels disappear into a fuzz of static when analog service ends Friday, according to surveys.
Home Theater February 25, 2008	Feds Mail Analog-TV Adapter Coupons Your $40 federal subsidy designed to keep your old TV going is in the mail -- if you've requested it.
Home Theater March 19, 2009	FCC Tweaks DTV Transition Scenario The Federal Communications Commission is using what it learned in February to set down rules for the remainder of the stations that complete the transition in June.
InternetNews December 19, 2005 Roy Mark	DTV Transition Date Set The House approves the DTV transition date and the Senate expected to agree today.
Home Theater February 17, 2009	Happy DTV Transition Day, Part 1 Today is the originally scheduled date of the DTV transition. Some television stations will make the transition from antiquated analog to cool new digital broadcasting on this very date. Others will have to wait till June 12. Here's a look at the current tally.
Popular Mechanics October 2008 Rob Sabin	Everything You Need to Know About the Digital TV Transition In reality, the digital TV transition isn't all that complicated. For most people, it is a nonissue, and for everyone else, adjusting to the switch will require minimal effort and expense.
InternetNews September 8, 2008 Kenneth Corbin	Dawn of the Digital Television Era First DTV switchover today in test market Wilmington, N.C., in advance of nationwide transition in February.
Home Theater January 13, 2009	DTV Transition May Be Delayed Acting in response to consumer-group complaints, the Obama transition team has asked the Federal Communications to delay the DTV transition.
PC Magazine November 30, 2005 Sebastian Rupley	Switching to Digital TV The national transition to digital television may be upon us.
InternetNews February 11, 2009 Kenneth Corbin	DTV Snags Loom Large Despite Delay FCC chairman warns of widespread confusion as many stations plan to shut off analog signals next week.
InternetNews October 14, 2005 Roy Mark	Senate Panel Eyes Vote on Digital TV Switch Tech executives urge Congress to set a hard deadline for broadcasters to shift completely to digital signals of no later than 2009. The vacated analog signals would be given to first responders and auctioned. A vote on legislation could come Wednesday.
InternetNews February 17, 2005 Roy Mark	House Considers Subsidizing DTV Transition A new proposal aims to speed broadcasters' move to digital and open spectrum for advanced wireless services.
Home Theater January 29, 2009	House Delays DTV Transition Delay The House of Representatives voted yesterday to keep the DTV transition running on schedule, defeating legislation that would have allowed some stations to delay the transition from February 17 to June 12.
PC Magazine March 19, 2009 John Brandon	Falling Off the Digital Cliff Even with a converter box, some will be left out in the cold after the DTV switchover.
InternetNews January 16, 2007 Roy Mark	Coalition Pushes For DTV Transition Tech companies, trade groups urge Congress to hold fast to Feb. 17, 2009 cut-off as the end of analog broadcasting.
Home Theater September 18, 2007 Mark Fleischmann	Satellite Problems Loom in DTV Transition Until now concerns over the transition to digital television, scheduled for 2009, have centered on broadcast-dependent viewers. But satellite viewers may be in for trouble too.
InternetNews June 17, 2005 Roy Mark	McCain Stakes Claim on DTV Transition Bill John McCain introduced legislation setting a hard date of Jan. 1, 2009, for the United States to cease analog television broadcasting.
InternetNews November 21, 2005 Roy Mark	House Approves DTV Bill Television broadcasters have three years to clear analog spectrum for wireless broadband providers and first responders.
Home Theater April 2, 2009	Volunteers to Ease DTV Transition Volunteers connected with a joint public/private service program will help ease the transition from analog to digital television broadcasting for low-income households, minorities, seniors, the disabled, those who live in rural areas, and those who don't speak English.
Home Theater June 5, 2009 Mark Fleischmann	DTV Transition One Week Away On June 12, 2009, more than half of the nation's television broadcasters will make the final switch to digital signals, shutting off analog forever.
InternetNews December 21, 2005 Roy Mark	DTV Bill Heads to President's Desk With President Bush's signature, over-the-air analog broadcasting will go dark in three years.
Home Theater July 11, 2005 Darryl Wilkinson	Money for Nothing (to Watch) How many analog TV viewers are there and should they get a DTV tuner subsidy when there's nothing to watch?
InternetNews March 4, 2008 Kenneth Corbin	FCC Requirements Aimed at Smooth DTV Transition The Federal Communications Commission yesterday announced requirements for broadcasters to air informational messages to educate viewers about the digital television transition, taking effect Feb. 17, 2009.
Home Theater February 4, 2009	It's Official: DTV Transition Botched The on-again, off-again effort to delay the DTV transition from February 17 to June 12 has overcome its biggest obstacle.
Home Theater March 20, 2009	More Stations to Make Early DTV Transition The DTV transition scenario continued to develop this week when the Federal Communications Commission announced that 158 more stations plan to complete their switch from analog to digital broadcasting before June 12's final drop-dead deadline.
Home Theater January 16, 2009	Three-Month DTV Delay Urged Sen. John Rockefeller has introduced a bill that would delay the switchover from analog to digital broadcasting from the currently scheduled February 17th to June 12th.
Home Theater January 22, 2009	Hawaii Enters DTV Age Early Hawaii became the first state in the union to turn off analog television signals, thus entering the age of DTV at least a month earlier than the deadline for the other 49 states.
Home Theater January 27, 2009	Senate Partly Delays DTV Transition The drive to delay the DTV transition cleared the Senate last night. However, the legislation now has a new twist - the delay is voluntary.
Home Theater September 11, 2008	Wilmington, NC Lives the DTV Future Now Folks in Wilmington, North Carolina are getting digital signals exclusively in a trial run for the overall U.S. DTV transition.