DTV News for 8-24-2006

[Lee Wood]

DTV News for 8-24-2006
908 Days Until the Scheduled End of Analog Television Broadcasting

Dan Rather and David Hill to Keynote HD World Conference
HD World Conference & Exposition Announces Broadcast Veterans as Keynote Speakers for 2006 Event
(Business Wire / Yahoo News / Broadcast Newsroom)
http://home.businesswire.com/portal/sit ... ewsLang=en
http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/060823/20060823005732.html?.v=1
http://www.broadcastnewsroom.com/articl ... p?id=59609

HD's killer app? [Craig Birkmaier]
The era of HDTV broadcasting in the United States began near the end of 1998. Nearly a decade later, many industry pundits are still looking for the killer app that will drive consumers to replace their old analog TVs, hopefully by the time NTSC broadcasts are scheduled to end in 2009.
(Broadcast Engineering)
http://broadcastengineering.com/beyond_ ... iller_app/


News First unveils most powerful HDTV signal in Colorado
(KOAA-TV Colorado Springs, CO)
http://www.koaa.com/news/view.asp?ID=5549

Verizon TV Viewers Love HDTV [Phillip Swann]
The telco says 60 percent of its subscribers are leasing High-Definition TV boxes.
(TVPredictions.com)
http://www.tvpredictions.com/verizonhdtv082406.htm

Tube Picks Up Cablevision Systems
Digital music network The Tube, which is carried on local broadcasters' secondary digital channels and via cable, is launching on three major Cablevision systems, bringing the network's distribution to 13 million homes.
(Broadcasting & Cable)
http://www.broadcastingcable.com/articl ... aking+News

The Tube Floats on Cablevision
Cablevision Systems added more than 2 million digital subscribers to The Tube Music Network