The Big Switch

The Senate Commerce Committee rescheduled its digital-TV-transition oversight hearing for April 8. The hearing was initially scheduled for Feb. 14, in advance of the one-year countdown to the Feb. 17, 2009, switch to digital, but… Read full story by John Eggerton of Broadcasting & Cable

More than one in five television-set owners in the Visalia-Fresno area — the ones without cable or satellite service — have a year to decide how they’re going to get television signals. These viewers tune into broadcast stations the old-fashioned way, with set-top “rabbit ears” or a rooftop antenna aimed at a… Read full storyby … Read more

“We are doing well. By the end of 2007, more than 50 percent of American households owned a digital television,” Shapiro said…. Read full story

Darren Murph over at EndGadget wrote a short blurb about the HDTV Converter Coupons arriving, plus a photo of the coupon card,that I thought you might be interested in: We’re seeing the first reports of early appliers receiving their pair of coupons in all of their credit card-sized glory. Nothing too special here — just … Read more

(Washington, DC) In a little less than a year, the nation’s analog TV sets won’t work without some kind of digital converter, a prospect fueling fears that clueless citizens won’t know what to do when their analog-only sets go dark. But Gary Shapiro, CEO of the Consumer Electronics Association, thinks those fears are overblown… Read … Read more