DTV News for 11-19-2005

[Lee Wood]

DTV News for 11-19-2005
407 Days Until the Scheduled End of Analog Television Broadcasting

House OKs earlier digital TV deadline
Switch set for December 2008, 3 months earlier than Senate bill
(Associated Press via USA Today / MSNBC / Altus, OK Times)
http://www.usatoday.com/money/media/200 ... l-tv_x.htm
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10099818/
http://www.altustimes.com/articles/2005 ... v8rjg0.txt

House, Senate Must Reconcile Differences in Competing DTV Bills
The House of Representatives voted 217-215 early Friday morning to approve a major budget bill that includes a provision that would force broadcasters to make the switch to digital TV by Dec. 31, 2008.
(TelevisionWeek)
http://www.tvweek.com/news.cms?newsId=8937

Recon Bill With DTV Deadline Squeaks Through Full House
(TV Technology)
http://www.tvtechnology.com/dailynews/one.php?id=3478

House Votes Dec. '08 DTV Deadline
The U.S. House early Friday voted to set a Dec. 31, 2008, deadline for finishing the transition to digital TV. The Senate earlier passed a similar bill that would set the transition date for April 2009, and negotiations will now take place between the chambers to reconcile differences between the me...
(MediaWeek)
http://www.mediaweek.com/mw/news/recent ... 1001524610

House OKs DTV date [Paid Subscription Required for Complete Story]
The U.S. government moved one step closer to shutting down the TV broadcast system that the nation has used to beam programming into people's homes since the medium was dominated by Lucille Ball, Sid Caesar and other pioneers.
(Hollywood Reporter)
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr/te ... 1001524637

House Passes DTV Bill [Paid Subscription Required]
The full House passed the budget reconciliation bill 217-215 in the wee hours of Friday morning. House Commerce Committee Chairman Joe Barton (R-Tex.) cast the last vote, but don't look for a final bill on a DTV hard date or converter box subsidy anytime soon.
(Broadcasting & Cable)
http://www.broadcastingcable.com/articl ... aking+News

House Passes DTV-Transition Bill [Paid Subscription Required]
The House passed a bill Friday morning that would end analog-TV broadcasting.
(Multichannel News)
http://www.multichannel.com/article/CA6 ... aking+News

House Passes Digital-TV Bill [Paid Subscription Required]
The House of Representatives on Friday approved a bill to end analog-TV broadcasting at the end of 2008 without awarding extra cable-carriage rights to digital-TV signals.
(Multichannel News)
http://www.multichannel.com/article/CA6 ... op+Stories

CEA Welcomes House Passage of Budget Bill as a Critical Step Forward toward Completing DTV Transition
Budget Reconciliation Includes Hard Date for Termination of Analog Broadcasts
(Consumer Electronics Association / Business Wire / Yahoo News)
http://www.ce.org/Press/CurrentNews/pre ... p?id=10879
http://home.businesswire.com/portal/sit ... ewsLang=en
http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/051118/20051118005607.html?.v=1


When will analog TVs go dark?
(DarkVision Hardware)
http://www.dvhardware.net/article8266.html

Transition to digital TV pulls UPN-21 off older sets
For homes with regular antennas on the TVs, it seems like UPN-21 went off the air, then it came back on, almost too fuzzy to watch.
(Shreveport, LA Times)
http://www.shreveporttimes.com/apps/pbc ... 90327/1064


FCC Committee Recommends DTV Obligations [Paid Subscription Required]
As expected, a media working group of the FCC's Consumer Advisory Committee (CAC) Nov. 18 approved recommendations for new broadcast public interest obligations in the digital age that include setting quantifiable obligations and disclosure requirements.
(Broadcasting & Cable)
http://www.broadcastingcable.com/articl ... aking+News


Iron Bowl in HDTV
(Mobile, AL Register)
http://www.al.com/tv/mobileregister/mbr ... xml&coll=3

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