Goodbye, Rabbit Ears? Not So Fast Jun 16, 2009
In fact, unlike an analog signal with its fuzzy picture, a weak digital signal can leave you seeing. well, nothing at all. (CBS News -- Sci/Tech)
The Switch-Off: Analog TV Gone For Good Jun 16, 2009
Nearly half of the nation's 1,760 full-power TV stations had already cut their analog signals even before Friday, mostly in less populated areas ... Before, there was the incentive to make sure that everyone could receive an analog signal ... My analog signal was good and consistent. (CBS News -- Sci/Tech)
Online exclusive: Algona Loses Signal to KEYC Due to Tower Work Jun 6, 2009
"Once the new antenna goes on-line, management expects the digital signals to be as strong as the former analog signal," said Jennings. This is the first time KEYC has replaced its antenna in 50 years. (Mid Iowa Enterprise, IA)
Staggering Toward DTV Deadline: Cut-Offs Vary Jun 6, 2009
According to the latest figures from the National Association of Broadcasters, the majority of TV stations cutting off their analog signals (447) will do so between 6 p.m. and 11:59:59 p.m. on Friday, June 12 ... About 100 stations -- actually 99 so far, according to the FCC -- will keep an analog signal on for up to 30 days after the transition date to transmit DTV transition information. (Multichannel News)
Rockefeller Urges DTV Stakeholders To Help Consumers Make Transition Jun 6, 2009
he asked that the group urge at least one station in all 202 eligible markets to keep an analog signal on the air as an informational nightlight. The FCC has said about 100 stations have volunteered to do so, though NAB also has said it continues to encourage other stations to join that group. (Multichannel News)
FCC Finds More Analog Signal Loss Than Initially Predicted Jun 6, 2009
Commission Required To Inform Impacted Viewers. John Eggerton -- Multichannel News, 6/5/2009 1:01:40 PM MT. (Multichannel News)
Let's Party Like It's 6/12/2009! Jun 6, 2009
There;s one station in Akron doing a flash-cut ; meaning it;s turning off the analog signal and bringing up the digital one at the same time. We think it;ll be OK but we don;t know,; Gessner says, adding that the company could pick up the feed if it had to from neighboring operators Time Warner Cable or Armstrong Cable. (Multichannel News)
End of analog TV won't affect many viewers Jun 5, 2009
KDKA and WTAE will continue to broadcast a "nightlight" analog signal for 30 days which will consist of a loop broadcast of a program about DTV conversion and a phone number for a FCC help line. Despite Nielsen's report of 98 percent preparedness rate locally, the FCC still lists the Pittsburgh market as one of its "hot spots" for concern. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
• Digital deadline next Friday Jun 5, 2009
Another chapter of television technology ends on June 12, when full-power television stations are mandated by Congress to switch to entirely digital signals and end their analog signals ... Twin Falls' CBS affiliate, KMVT-TV already ended its analog signal in February ... Since 2003, IPTV has broadcast a digital signal alongside its analog signal. (Burley South Idaho Press, ID)
Stations await June 12 digital conversion -- confident but ... May 31, 2009
We are just turning off our analog signal on June 12, Aiken said ... We have done the multiple tests where we have turned off our analog signal and only showed the digital so any necessary corrections could be made, McBride said. (Orangeburg Times and Democrat, SC)
The downward spiral of progress May 31, 2009
The government's TV-transition website assures the analog-TV holdouts that "digital broadcasting allows stations to offer improved picture and sound quality." This is debatable: where you might watch a weak analog signal on a snowy screen, a digital signal would go blank or curdle into unwatchable, unmoving pixel-chunks. And because digital signals take longer to digest, it will become impossible to flip instantly from channel to channel - a maddening lag I first encountered on digital cable,... (Boston Globe)
Analog Shutoff For KFOX On Thursday May 21, 2009
EL PASO, Texas -- As part of the national digital transition taking place June 12, KFOX will temporarily shut off its analog signal at three different times on Thursday. The initial two-minute shut down will happen at 6:20 a.m., then again at 12:25 p.m., and finally at 6:25 p.m.. (KFOXTV.com, TX)
Stations join soft test for digital TV May 21, 2009
Instead of cutting off their analog signals, broadcasters during the soft test will interrupt regular analog programming to warn viewers the interruption indicates they are not prepared for the transition, the FCC said in a news release. These viewers other than those connected to a subscription TV service such as cable or satellite, which may convert a broadcaster s analog signal must take action to avoid a complete loss of service on June 12. (Atlanta Business Chronicle, GA)
Michigan Broadcasters Join in Nationwide DTV 'Soft Test' May 21st May 20, 2009
Each television market in the state has worked together to coordinate a uniform time when the majority of stations will simulate (soft test) turning off their analog signal so citizens can check to see if they are ready to make the transition to digital TV. Additionally, many stations who have already transitioned or those who are technically unable to perform the simulation will run messages along the bottom of their screens to inform viewers of the test being conducted ... The federal... (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Many still not prepared for digital TV, the FCC says May 20, 2009
WFXT-TV (Channel 25) stopped broadcasting its analog signal in February. Johnny Diaz can be reached at. (Boston Globe)
Digital TV transition a struggle for some May 18, 2009
The extra time has given people a chance to get on board with digital TV, which is being broadcast exclusively by some stations and is being run alongside old analog signals by others ... She said some San Francisco seniors living in packed apartments in Chinatown are finding they can't get some of the same channels they used to get with an analog signal. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Which PC Should a College Kid Get? May 13, 2009
The green screen you describe is probably a channel transmitting the old analog signal to the digital tuner in your TV. If I'm right, the new Westinghouse will work perfectly after the conversion date. But check with the people you bought the TV from to make sure. (Fox News)
When will they broaden the band width so that motion blur can be eliminated? A... May 10, 2009
Never happened with an analog signal. September 27, 2008 In response to: What Comcast's Crunched HD Looks Like Engineer commented. (Multichannel News)
WMHT to make early digital debut Apr 9, 2009
Station will end analog signal before required June date ... Television stations have always used analog signals for over-the-air broadcasting ... Plus, operating the analog signal can cost about $15,000 monthly a big concern when the economic slowdown has brought declining advertising revenues at nearly all TV outlets. (Albany Times Union)
Cable Show 2009: Levity, Martin On Luncheon Menu Apr 4, 2009
In fact, McDowell pointed out, no market has gone all digital, and most major market stations are still broadcasting an analog signal. McDowell said he expected there would need to be a "well-organized mop-up effort.". (Multichannel News)
Shake off old way of doing things and get with the times (2) Mar 29, 2009
In the '80s and early '90s, clunky bag phones let you communicate across the airwaves from your vehicle, or anywhere it can reach an analog signal. Fast forward to the new millennium, where chatting about all of those innovations from the past can prompt laughter among family and friends. (Minnesota Farm Guide, MN)
Glitches turn up in TV's switch to digital Mar 27, 2009
It has been just over a month since KVPT (Channel 18) became the first local television station to make the complete switch from an analog signal to digital. There have been a few bumps, but no major disasters so far. (Fresno Bee)
On Your Mind Mar 22, 2009
In the changeover to digital, they are transmitting in HD, but because they still have to transmit in analog until June, the conversion from HD to the analog signal is causing problems. Exactly why they can t seem to figure out completely. (Sierra Vista Herald, AZ)
Briefs: Man hit by car at Safeway Mar 21, 2009
Friday, March 20, 2009 Edition. Published: Friday, March 20, 2009 7:35 PM MDT A Green Valley man was seriously injured last week when a car struck his grocery cart in the Continental Shopping Plaza, knocking him to the ground. (Green Valley News & Sun, AZ)
Denver stations set digital date Mar 18, 2009
On that date, the three stations no longer will broadcast analog signals. Viewers with older TV sets that receive only analog signals via an antenna will need a digital converter box to receive the two stations as of 12:01 a.m. MDT April 16 ... KMGH, branded as Denver's 7; KUSA, branded as 9News; and KTVD, KUSA's sister station, branded as My20 Denver, all already broadcast in low-power digital as well as analog, but will switch to high-power digital and drop the analog signals as of April 16. (Denver Business Journal, CO)
13WMAZ Goes All-Digital June 12 Mar 14, 2009
Because WMAZ is the only remaining analog broadcast station in the area, the station will continue to broadcast both an analog signal and a digital signal until June 12. After that date, WMAZ will provide all-digital service. (13WMAZ.com, GA)
FCC Allows Some Stations to Make Digital Switch April 16 Mar 14, 2009
The Federal Communications Commission is giving a reluctant go-ahead to a new round of early DTV switchovers, telling stations they can terminate their analog signals starting April 16, but imposing more conditions on network affiliates. The FCC said the network affiliates could switch only if at least one local network station in the market continues to air an analog signal until the national switchover June 12. (TVweek.com)
Feds Mix Signals on DTV Converter Box Mar 7, 2009
While discussing the Commerce Dept.'s converter-box coupon program in a recent interview with C-SPAN, Adelstein explained that the converter box takes the analog signal and converts it to digital so you don't have to buy a new television. . (Multichannel News)
New TI Delfino(TM) MCUs double floating-point performance for development of more intelligent, energy efficient high-end real-time control applications Mar 3, 2009
TI provides complementary analog signal chain and power management technology that helps enhance the system performance of applications based on Delfino floating-point controllers. TI's analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) provide resolution, speed and an interface that offers data rates from 8-bits at 100 mega samples per second (MSPS) to 32-bits at 100 SPS. In addition, TI's full range of high-efficiency power management solutions allows developers to more easily optimize their system power... (PR Newswire)
Congress cut off our free TV Mar 1, 2009
Where the traditional analog signal would produce ghost images and occasional snow depending on the weather and other factors, the digital picture may break up completely when somebody in the house makes a wrong move, if it comes in at all. The result is that because of this switch, for some people in the mid-valley watching TV will either become impossible or a hassle with antennas or much more expensive. (Albany Democrat-Herald, OR)
DTV Switch Navigator Feb 23, 2009
He said a majority of the calls dealt with re-scanning issues, after the markets CBS and PBS affiliates switched their analog signal to digital midday. A partial explanation for the rise in calls in Oklahoma City is that the CBS and PBS affiliates in the area flash cut their analog signals, Mr. Rossi said ... At 1 p.m. on Tuesday, the CBS and PBS stations stopped transmitting their analog signals, then moved their digital signals to the channels of the former analog signals. (TVweek.com)
FCC: Stations Shouldn't Pull Analog Plug Until April 16 Feb 22, 2009
Not surprisingly, the FCC moved the to the June 12 deadline, which allows stations to keep an analog signal on for another 30 past the DTV transition deadline to provide emergency information. The programming can have no ads, but can carry sponsorship credits similar to those on noncommercial stations. (Multichannel News)
491 TV Stations Want To Keep Feb. 17 DTV Transition Date Feb 21, 2009
"We'll try to work with broadcasters to make this as seemless as possible for everybody," says FCC Commissioner Robert McDowell, "but we do need to protect consumers, and part of that is to make sure that there is some analog signal in each market." Some broadcasters may wind up having to stay on even if they don't want to. "That remains to be seen," he said," but hopefully it will all be voluntary.". (Multichannel News)
Editorial: Digital TV's costly delay Feb 21, 2009
WXXI, which had three stations, has broadcast both analog and digital signals for about five years and planned in its budget to shut down the analog signal this month. The irony. (Wakefield Observer, MA)
Region adjusts to digital TV Feb 20, 2009
According to a release from the Federal Communications Commission, the agency received 28,315 calls to its help line on Tuesday, and 421 television stations nationwide terminated their analog signals ... She said one issue is that the digital signal does not reach as far as the analog signal and is more susceptible for disruption by terrain or buildings. (Pekin Times, IL)
DTV transition mostly a smooth one in western South Dakota Feb 20, 2009
South Dakota Public Broadcasting also switched off its analog signals overnight Tuesday ... Some stations shut off their analog signals early ... Broadcasters must notify viewers before shutting off the analog signal. (Rapid City Journal, SD)
A screen shot of the digital TV transition Feb 20, 2009
Although President Obama signed an extension giving stations the option to delay shutting down their analog signals until June 12th, many decided to go ahead with the switch -- most as of midnight ... MOON: Now a lot of these stations didn't switch off the analog signal until midnight though, so are you expecting a wave of calls when prime time hits. (Multichannel News)
Digital switch gets cold reception from some viewers in rural areas Feb 20, 2009
KWWL Channel 7 in Waterloo and other stations in eastern Iowa shut off their analog signals Tuesday and began broadcast ing exclusively in digital ... For those wondering if KWWL will start up the old analog signal or shift back to the channel 55 digital signal, those doors are closed ... Independent wrote on Feb 19, 2009 6:12 PM:" I have switched to channel 9, thanks KCRG for still sending the analog signal. ". (Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier)
Digital transition is smooth, but not perfect Feb 20, 2009
HDTVs are also capable of converting analog signal to digital and serve as another option for customers preparing for the full conversion by June 12 ... Williams was irritated that he received less channels with the digital conversion than with the regular analog signal ... Josh Carpenter, an employee of Smith's, said this was because of the digital "cliff effect." While an analog signal strength decreases gradually until the channel shows static, a digital box cuts off the signal once so many... (Madison Daily Leader, SD)
CHRIS HUBBUCH: Channel 8 gets static over DTV switch Feb 19, 2009
Not so, said WKBT viewers who lost their picture Tuesday afternoon when the station killed its analog signal and replaced it with a digital broadcast. Because WKBT had been sending a digital signal over UHF channel 41, people needed to reprogram their receivers to find the new signal on VHF channel 8. (La Crosse Tribune, WI)
DTV Switch: WRSP Hitches 'Minimal' Feb 19, 2009
Currently, WRSPs analog signal is running at low power, and broadcasting a nine-minute National Association of Broadcasters-provided video in English and Spanish about how to make the digital switch. He said the analog signal will run the video for the next 10 days. (TVweek.com)
Vt. TV Goes Digital Feb 19, 2009
" Analog viewers are not totally losing their signal -- yet. Locally produced programming, such as local news, will continue to be broadcast on Channel 3's analog signal for 60 days. When local news is not on, that station will have information about the switch to digital. The call center phone number is 1-866-424-5483. It's open until 9:00 p.m. Wednesday; Thursday from 5:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m.; and again on Friday from 5:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. - WCAX News Related Stories: Click here for recent web... (WCAX.com, VT)
Fresno's KVPT successfully makes transition to digital Feb 19, 2009
The station put an informational slide on the analog signal to direct viewers who had questions to call either the station or Comcast ... San Diego is the largest market where three of the biggest affiliates are turning off analog signals ... That's because the switch from analog signals to digital, no matter when it happens, has no effect on cable and satellite subscribers. (Fresno Bee)
DTV Switch: Sinclair's Vegas Stations Get Few Calls Feb 19, 2009
Mike Brown, director of engineering for Sinclair duopoly KVCW and KVMY, said that as of 3 p.m. local time, the station had gotten very few calls about the loss of its analog signal ... KVCW and KVMY had been running crawls on their analog signals for weeks, prompting about 10 calls a day from viewers unsure of what to do or how to tune in to a digital signal. (TVweek.com)
U.S. stations get ready to cut analog signal Feb 18, 2009
February 17, 2009 at 9:59 AM EST. NEW YORK In theatre superstition, a bad dress rehearsal is supposed to foretell a good opening night. (Globe and Mail)
600+ Stations Switching To Digital On Time Feb 18, 2009
In a few months no TV station or network will be sending out an analog signal. Options about for how you will receive television in the digital era. (KCRA 3, CA)
Feds: New DTV coupons available soon Feb 18, 2009
But the networks own only about 100 of the 1,800 or so broadcast television stations in the United States, according to an industry group, and 421 already will have stopped broadcasting in analog signals, or will by next week, the Federal Communications Commission said Monday ... In areas where viewers have few to no choices when analog ends, the FCC is requiring the top-four network affiliates to keep at least one analog signal on the air to provide programing that includes, at a minimum, local... (MSNBC -- Technology)
4 Bay Area stations drop analog signal Feb 18, 2009
Tuesday, February 17, 2009. (02-16) 16:42 PST -- Four Bay Area television stations will cease analog transmissions today, almost four months ahead of the June 12 deadline for broadcasters to go all-digital. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Older TV sets may not get WGTV after Tuesday Feb 18, 2009
Cutting off the analog signal will also strengthen the digital one, she said ... Stations that go ahead and shut down the analog signal before that time are not circumventing the new law, said Matt Wigfield, a spokesman for the FCC. ... A network of nine Georgia Public Broadcast stations have asked the FCC to shut off their analog signal Wednesday, keeping with the original date that all TV stations were to go all-digital. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Business)
Despite DTV delay, some Oregon stations switch Feb 18, 2009
Despite the "DTV Delay Act" signed into law by President Obama last week, hundreds of TV stations across the country planned to turn off their analog signal by midnight Tuesday, including several TV stations in smaller markets in Oregon. All the major local network affiliates in Portland were honoring the delay, and planned to keep broadcasting an analog signal through June 12th. (KGW Northwest NewsChannel 8, OR)
Washington TV stations divided on analog cutoff Feb 18, 2009
SEATTLE - Television viewers across Washington state faced a confusing picture of analog signal cutoffs Tuesday. Some stations acted early, some were on time and others, including virtually all in Seattle, decided to wait until June 12. (Longview Daily News, WA)
No digital delay for some Feb 18, 2009
CW 15, owned by Clear Channel, will continue throughout the day and drop its analog signal at midnight. As a locally owned and managed media organization, WITF is able to act on local conditions and information and has decided to stick with the Feb. 17 transition date, the station said in a statement. (Carlisle Sentinel, PA)
DTV Switchover on Track Feb 18, 2009
said it received only a half-dozen calls within the first hour of digital-only broadcasting after it shut off its analog signal at 12:10 p.m. EST. ... At that time, WCAXs analog signal will switch over to 60 days of enhanced night-light service, with news and a repeating broadcast that will inform viewers why they are seeing the message as opposed to standard programming and how to correct that. (TVweek.com)
Bozeman stations delay TV change Feb 18, 2009
Although the deadline for television stations to make the switch from analog to digital signals was delayed from this week until June 12, many stations nationwide with digital capabilities are dropping their analog signal, leaving some viewers in the dark ... None of the local broadcast affiliates are planning to drop analog signals that broadcast through the airwaves although most of them have the digital capabilities that would allow them to do so ... KBZK (CBS and CW), KTVM (NBC) and KUSM... (Bozeman Daily Chronicle)
Mostly business as usual for MPW Cable subscribers Feb 18, 2009
MUSCATINE, Iowa Most homes in MPW Cable s service area will not lose the CW Network when KGCW-TV switches off its analog signal at noon today ... June 12 is a deadline to shut down the analog signal, he said. (Muscatine Journal, IO)
CITY PREPS FOR SWITCH, THOUGH SOME STATIONS WILL DELAY Feb 17, 2009
By signing off the analog signal on Feb. 17, it will allow us to do a full-power, digital upgrade for KARZ.. KLRT (Fox and CW) initially planned to switch on Feb. 17, said Vice President and General Manager Chuck Spohn, but public feedback led to a change of plans. (Pine Bluff Commercial, AR)
Ready or not, digital TV transition begins today Feb 17, 2009
Today is the day stations serving the La Crosse and Eau Claire area will stop broadcasting analog signals ... WXOW in La Crosse and sister station WQOW in Eau Claire will continue broadcasting very limited analog programming for 60 days a decision that came after the Federal Communications Commission last week identified 123 stations that won t be allowed to shut off their analog signal unless they meet certain conditions. (La Crosse Tribune, WI)
Today is the day for digital TV switch Feb 17, 2009
ABC affiliate KCAU, CBS affiliate KMEG and FOX affiliate KPTH all turn off their analog signals at noon, while NBC affiliate KTIV follows at 1:30 p.m. ... KCAU, which has been broadcasting its digital signal on UHF channel 30, will move it to channel 9 on the VHF band after shutting off its analog signal. (Sioux City Journal)
FCC: 36% Of Stations Will Make Switch By Original DTV Hard Date Feb 17, 2009
421 Stations Pulling Analog Signals Tonight ... The FCC released its latest digital TV transition figures Monday and 421 stations will terminate their analog signals as of midnight Feb. 17 ... That's in addition to the 220 that have already cut their analog signals off or will today. (Multichannel News)
Rabbit ears will work for another four months Feb 17, 2009
The switch will affect viewers with older sets that receive broadcast analog signals and do not get cable or satellite television ... WEEK-TV in Peoria has said it will shut down the analog signal as scheduled. (Princeton Bureau County Republican, IL)
Digital switch ready? Feb 17, 2009
David Woods, station owner of WCOV Fox 20 in Montgomery, said the station will be cutting their analog signal at midnight Tuesday, Feb. 17, meaning all broadcasts beginning Wednesday, Feb. 18 will be digital ... Both ABC 33/40 in Birmingham and WSFA NBC 12 in Montgomery have been carrying both digital as well as analog signals and will continue to carry both until the June 12 deadline ... No one is going to be harmed by not turning the analog signal off, but some could be harmed if we did. (Alexander City Outlook, AL)
Law pushes back national switch from analog to digital broadcasting Feb 17, 2009
Public service announcements have been cramming the airwaves for months, warning viewers that on Feb. 17, stations will stop broadcasting in analog signal and use solely digital ... The government offers a limit of two $40 coupons per household to fund the purchase of a converter box, which translates an analog signal into a digital one ... Al Gillette, an engineer for FOX 68 WSYT, said the station will be transitioning to an exclusively digital broadcast 00001EC5 as soon as possible because of... (Daily Orange, NY)
Local TV Stations Go Digital Feb 17, 2009
4 Bay Area stations drop analog signal. Article:4 Bay Area stations drop analog signal:/c/a/2009/02/16/BUDD15TP5Q.DTL Article:4 Bay Area stations drop analog signal:/c/a/2009/02/16/BUDD15TP5Q.DTL ... 4 Bay Area stations drop analog signal. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Business)
DTV Transition: WINK Throws the Switch Feb 17, 2009
Wink has also conducted a number of soft tests, removing the analog signal for a minute or two at a time. After the first two-minute test in December, the station received about 35 calls from viewers. (TVweek.com)
Local briefs Feb 17, 2009
WEAU switching off analog signal Monday. WEAU-TV (Channel 13) is switching off its analog broadcast signal Monday, a day ahead of its commercial TV competitors. (Chippewa Falls Chippewa Herald, WI)
