The Big Switch

People who have some sort of cable or satellite service connected to their TVs won’t have anything to worry about when the federally mandated change to digital television broadcasting occurs next year. However, it is still undetermined what will happen to local public, educational and government, or PEG, channels for Comcast cable subscribers… Read full … Read more

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has issued a DTV Consumer Education Order requiring television broadcasters, multichannel video programming distributors (MVPDs), telecommunications carriers, retailers and manufacturers to promote awareness of the nation’s transition to digital television. The FCC also said… Read full story at Digital Game Developer

The message about digital television is coming in with mixed signals. The Wisconsin Broadcasters Association held a press conference on Thursday in Eau Claire to talk about the switch to digital television. Read full story WQOW 18

The National Association of Broadcasters and the low-power TV lobby continue to differ over the digital-TV-education campaign, if not on the overarching goal of keeping analog viewers from losing their signals in the transition to digital. The NAB said Thursday that it will launch a Web site this month, LPTVAnswers.com, to provide information on how … Read more

Though the hard date for the switch to all-digital television broadcasting is fixed and won’t change, at least one influential lawmaker is “deeply concerned” that the result could be a trainwreck. In a luncheon speech to the Media Institute on Thursday, Rep. Rick Boucher (D-Va.), a senior member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee … Read more