DTV News for 10-27-2005
Posted: Thu Oct 27, 2005 6:08 am
DTV News for 10-27-2005
430 Days Until the Scheduled End of Analog Television Broadcasting
DTV Station Status per FCC CDBS - Oct. 23, 2005
(TV Technology)
http://www.tvtechnology.com/dlrf/one.php?id=1051
All TV digital by end of 2008: panel
The House Energy and Commerce Committee on Wednesday approved a measure ordering the switch to higher-quality digital broadcasts be finished by the end of 2008, setting up a clash with the Senate.
(Reuters)
http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArtic ... ived=False
House Committee OKs Digital TV Switch Bill
House lawmakers want all-digital TV broadcasts to kick in sooner than a Senate bill requires, and they want to spend about a third less on the conversion.
(Associated Press via Fox News)
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,173637,00.html
U.S. House panel backs end-2008 digital TV switch
(Reuters / Yahoo News)
http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArtic ... ived=False
http://today.reuters.com/investing/fina ... BT004123:1
http://au.news.yahoo.com/051026/11/wj5s.html
Switch to digital polarizes lawmakers
The legislative battle over the switch to digital TV became a marker in Democratic attempts to paint the GOP as a party beholden to the rich as liberal lawmakers on Wednesday forced a string of party-line votes on a series of issues over the move to turn off the current analog signal.
(Hollywood Reporter via Reuters / Yahoo News / Williston, SD Herald)
http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArtic ... TAL-DC.XML
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20051027/med ... gital_dc_1
http://www.heraldnewsdaily.com/stories/ ... 91285.html
Switch to digital polarizes pols [Paid Subscription Required for Complete Story - or click above]
The legislative battle over the switch to digital TV became a marker in Democratic attempts to paint the GOP as a party beholden to the rich as liberal lawmakers on Wednesday forced a string of party-line votes on a series of issues over the move to turn off the current analog signal.
(Hollywood Reporter)
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr/te ... 1001390834
Your TV Could Go Dark In 2009
Congress tries to figure out how much federal help people should get when the way tv signals are broadcasted changes.
(Reuters via WFMY Greensboro, NC)
http://www.wfmynews2.com/2wtk/article.a ... ryid=50825
House votes to give out $40 coupons to convert analog TVs
(USA Today)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/usatoday/200510 ... tanalogtvs
House Panel Nixes Set-Top Subsidy
The House Energy and Commerce Committee rejected a Democratic-sponsored proposal to provide an estimated $3.5 million to subsidize set-tops for analog-TV sets.
(Multichannel News)
http://www.multichannel.com/article/CA6 ... erral=SUPP
House Committee Approves Date for DTV Transition Deadline
The House Energy and Commerce Committee approved legislation late Wednesday that would set the deadline for the digital TV transition at Dec. 31, 2008, and provide up to $990 million to subsidize digital-to-analog converter boxes for analog-only sets.
(TelevisionWeek)
http://www.tvweek.com/news.cms?newsId=8794
House Panel Rejects Generous DTV Converter Subsidy
The House Energy and Commerce Committee voted 28-21 along party lines Wednesday to reject a package of legislative amendments by committee Democrats that would have provided whatever it cost -- estimated by Democrats to be up to $4 billion -- to subsidize the acquisition of digital-to-analog converter boxes for all 73 million analog-only TV sets in the United States.
(TelevisionWeek)
http://www.tvweek.com/news.cms?newsId=8792
House Commerce Approves DTV Bill [Paid Subscription Required]
By a vote of 33 to 17, the House Energy and Commerce Committee Wednesday approved a bill to set a DTV transition hard date of Jan. 1, 2009, and provide $990 million for digital-to-analog converters.
(Broadcasting & Cable)
http://www.broadcastingcable.com/articl ... aking+News
April 7, 2009--End of Analog TV?
(TV Technology)
http://www.tvtechnology.com/dlrf/one.php?id=1041
Border Stations Don't Get DTV Waiver [Paid Subscription Required]
Texas Republican Rep. Charles Gonzalez withdrew an amendment Wednesday that would have given U.S. TV stations within 50 miles of the Mexican border until 2015 to make the transition from analog to digital--the national hard date is expected to be in 2009.
(Broadcasting & Cable)
http://www.broadcastingcable.com/articl ... aking+News
House panel gives New York $30 million for TV transition
(New York, NY Newsday)
http://www.nynewsday.com/news/local/man ... -headlines
NY DTVs Could Get $30 Million [Paid Subscription Required]
The House Commerce Committee has approved an amendment, introduced by Eliot Engel (D-N.Y.) and two other New York reps, to give New York TV stations $30 million to help them make the 2009 hard date of converting to digital.
(Broadcasting & Cable)
http://www.broadcastingcable.com/articl ... aking+News
Barrett Promotes Telco/Broadcast Partnership [Paid Subscription Required]
In a speech to the U.S. Telecom Association in Las Vegas Tuesday, Hearst-Argyle CEO David Barrett said that broadcasters will welcome telcos into the TV family, particularly if they will help them secure mandatory multichannel video carriage of their multicast DTV signals.
(Broadcasting & Cable)
http://www.broadcastingcable.com/articl ... aking+News
Commerce Delays Considering Broadcast Flag [Paid Subscription Required]
Commerce Committee Chairman Joe Barton (R-Tex.) said he would work with Rep. Mary Bono (R-Calif.) and others on the issue of codifying the broadcast flag in the context of a "fair use" bill.
(Broadcasting & Cable)
http://www.broadcastingcable.com/articl ... aking+News
FCC Wants Appeals Court to Toss Disney Request on Kids Rules
The Federal Communications Commission late Tuesday asked the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington to throw out a request by The Walt Disney Co. seeking a stay of the agency's new children's TV rules or an order forcing the agency to act by Nov. 15 on a series of long-pending industry petitions urging the agency to dramatically ease the regulations.
(TelevisionWeek)
http://www.tvweek.com/news.cms?newsId=8793
FCC Defends Kids Rules [Paid Subscription Required]
The FCC has asked the D.C. Circuit to reject Disney's writ of mandamus regarding the commissions digital children's TV rules.
(Broadcasting & Cable)
http://www.broadcastingcable.com/articl ... aking+News
Retail channel makes push for LCD TVs, says DisplaySearch
(DigiTimes)
http://www.digitimes.com/displays/a20051027PR203.html
LCD TVs Boost Sharp Overseas CE Biz Sales 4.1%
Osaka, Japan
430 Days Until the Scheduled End of Analog Television Broadcasting
DTV Station Status per FCC CDBS - Oct. 23, 2005
(TV Technology)
http://www.tvtechnology.com/dlrf/one.php?id=1051
All TV digital by end of 2008: panel
The House Energy and Commerce Committee on Wednesday approved a measure ordering the switch to higher-quality digital broadcasts be finished by the end of 2008, setting up a clash with the Senate.
(Reuters)
http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArtic ... ived=False
House Committee OKs Digital TV Switch Bill
House lawmakers want all-digital TV broadcasts to kick in sooner than a Senate bill requires, and they want to spend about a third less on the conversion.
(Associated Press via Fox News)
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,173637,00.html
U.S. House panel backs end-2008 digital TV switch
(Reuters / Yahoo News)
http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArtic ... ived=False
http://today.reuters.com/investing/fina ... BT004123:1
http://au.news.yahoo.com/051026/11/wj5s.html
Switch to digital polarizes lawmakers
The legislative battle over the switch to digital TV became a marker in Democratic attempts to paint the GOP as a party beholden to the rich as liberal lawmakers on Wednesday forced a string of party-line votes on a series of issues over the move to turn off the current analog signal.
(Hollywood Reporter via Reuters / Yahoo News / Williston, SD Herald)
http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArtic ... TAL-DC.XML
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20051027/med ... gital_dc_1
http://www.heraldnewsdaily.com/stories/ ... 91285.html
Switch to digital polarizes pols [Paid Subscription Required for Complete Story - or click above]
The legislative battle over the switch to digital TV became a marker in Democratic attempts to paint the GOP as a party beholden to the rich as liberal lawmakers on Wednesday forced a string of party-line votes on a series of issues over the move to turn off the current analog signal.
(Hollywood Reporter)
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr/te ... 1001390834
Your TV Could Go Dark In 2009
Congress tries to figure out how much federal help people should get when the way tv signals are broadcasted changes.
(Reuters via WFMY Greensboro, NC)
http://www.wfmynews2.com/2wtk/article.a ... ryid=50825
House votes to give out $40 coupons to convert analog TVs
(USA Today)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/usatoday/200510 ... tanalogtvs
House Panel Nixes Set-Top Subsidy
The House Energy and Commerce Committee rejected a Democratic-sponsored proposal to provide an estimated $3.5 million to subsidize set-tops for analog-TV sets.
(Multichannel News)
http://www.multichannel.com/article/CA6 ... erral=SUPP
House Committee Approves Date for DTV Transition Deadline
The House Energy and Commerce Committee approved legislation late Wednesday that would set the deadline for the digital TV transition at Dec. 31, 2008, and provide up to $990 million to subsidize digital-to-analog converter boxes for analog-only sets.
(TelevisionWeek)
http://www.tvweek.com/news.cms?newsId=8794
House Panel Rejects Generous DTV Converter Subsidy
The House Energy and Commerce Committee voted 28-21 along party lines Wednesday to reject a package of legislative amendments by committee Democrats that would have provided whatever it cost -- estimated by Democrats to be up to $4 billion -- to subsidize the acquisition of digital-to-analog converter boxes for all 73 million analog-only TV sets in the United States.
(TelevisionWeek)
http://www.tvweek.com/news.cms?newsId=8792
House Commerce Approves DTV Bill [Paid Subscription Required]
By a vote of 33 to 17, the House Energy and Commerce Committee Wednesday approved a bill to set a DTV transition hard date of Jan. 1, 2009, and provide $990 million for digital-to-analog converters.
(Broadcasting & Cable)
http://www.broadcastingcable.com/articl ... aking+News
April 7, 2009--End of Analog TV?
(TV Technology)
http://www.tvtechnology.com/dlrf/one.php?id=1041
Border Stations Don't Get DTV Waiver [Paid Subscription Required]
Texas Republican Rep. Charles Gonzalez withdrew an amendment Wednesday that would have given U.S. TV stations within 50 miles of the Mexican border until 2015 to make the transition from analog to digital--the national hard date is expected to be in 2009.
(Broadcasting & Cable)
http://www.broadcastingcable.com/articl ... aking+News
House panel gives New York $30 million for TV transition
(New York, NY Newsday)
http://www.nynewsday.com/news/local/man ... -headlines
NY DTVs Could Get $30 Million [Paid Subscription Required]
The House Commerce Committee has approved an amendment, introduced by Eliot Engel (D-N.Y.) and two other New York reps, to give New York TV stations $30 million to help them make the 2009 hard date of converting to digital.
(Broadcasting & Cable)
http://www.broadcastingcable.com/articl ... aking+News
Barrett Promotes Telco/Broadcast Partnership [Paid Subscription Required]
In a speech to the U.S. Telecom Association in Las Vegas Tuesday, Hearst-Argyle CEO David Barrett said that broadcasters will welcome telcos into the TV family, particularly if they will help them secure mandatory multichannel video carriage of their multicast DTV signals.
(Broadcasting & Cable)
http://www.broadcastingcable.com/articl ... aking+News
Commerce Delays Considering Broadcast Flag [Paid Subscription Required]
Commerce Committee Chairman Joe Barton (R-Tex.) said he would work with Rep. Mary Bono (R-Calif.) and others on the issue of codifying the broadcast flag in the context of a "fair use" bill.
(Broadcasting & Cable)
http://www.broadcastingcable.com/articl ... aking+News
FCC Wants Appeals Court to Toss Disney Request on Kids Rules
The Federal Communications Commission late Tuesday asked the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington to throw out a request by The Walt Disney Co. seeking a stay of the agency's new children's TV rules or an order forcing the agency to act by Nov. 15 on a series of long-pending industry petitions urging the agency to dramatically ease the regulations.
(TelevisionWeek)
http://www.tvweek.com/news.cms?newsId=8793
FCC Defends Kids Rules [Paid Subscription Required]
The FCC has asked the D.C. Circuit to reject Disney's writ of mandamus regarding the commissions digital children's TV rules.
(Broadcasting & Cable)
http://www.broadcastingcable.com/articl ... aking+News
Retail channel makes push for LCD TVs, says DisplaySearch
(DigiTimes)
http://www.digitimes.com/displays/a20051027PR203.html
LCD TVs Boost Sharp Overseas CE Biz Sales 4.1%
Osaka, Japan