It's finally official: American households must ensure their televisions are equipped to receive solely digital TV broadcasts by Feb. 17, 2009. The U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday cleared ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The big news in 2005 was agreement in Congress to set a firm date of Feb. 2009 for shutting down ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Based on testimony at the House Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet hearing last ...

NEW YORK — About a quarter of the nation’s TV stations cut off their analog signals Tuesday, causing sets to go dark in households that were not prepared for digital television despite two years of ...

(AP) -- The last major TV stations that are still broadcasting in analog will turn those signals off Friday and go all digital. And this time, they really mean it. The original Feb. 17 deadline for ...

From sister publication TV Technology: President Bush has signed the budget reconciliation bill that sets Feb. 17, 2009 as the day analog television broadcast signals go away forever. The bill also ...

Ready or not, the end of analog television reception comes Friday. Four stations in the Mobile-Pensacola market -- ABC affiliate WEAR-TV3, CBS affiliate WKRG-TV5, Fox affiliate WALA-TV10 and NBC ...

Television stations across the U.S. began cutting their analog signals Friday, marking the final signoff for a 60-year-old technology and likely stranding more than 1 million unprepared homes without ...

The U.S. has planned for more than a decade to have TV broadcasters turn off their analog signals, yet when the Feb. 17 deadline loomed, it flinched, delaying the mandatory shutdown for four months.

Some stations are simply letting the equipment sit while they ponder its fate. But that can take a huge amount of space: Many analog TV transmitters are the size of three refrigerators in a row, ...

WEST MICHIGAN -- Don't throw out that old pair of rabbit ears just yet. As the nation adjusts its TV sets for digital broadcasting, some Muskegon-area residents can still catch their favorite programs ...