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ON MARYLAND'S RURAL eastern shore, veteran broadcaster Tom Draper describes himself as living with one foot in the old world and one foot in the new, moving along in a [...]

FCC validates 8-VSB, investigates ITV, but ducks must-carry The winners and losers in the digital-TV transition began sorting themselves out last week, thanks to decisions by the National Association of [...]

Agency requests comments on set labeling, digital copyright issues Nudging forward the slow-moving (but 'inevitable,' as FCC Chair Bill Kennard called it) transition to digital TV, the commission last week [...]

Amid raging debates on how best to deploy digital TV, not much is getting done Things fall apart/The center cannot hold. When he wrote that famous couplet 70 years ago, [...]

Battles over real estate and environmental issues and a hands-off FCC are holding up digital rollouts When digital television made its first big splash at the National Association of Broadcasters [...]

Action by the Republican-dominated House Commerce Committee has broadcasters fearing the digital TV transition could leave them with a reduced audience watching degraded pictures. The gloomy scenario follows the committee's [...]

Broadcasters reluctant to surrender their traditional analog channels are urging Congress to reject arguments from high-tech companies that want a firm date for switching to digital TV. 'The corporate financial [...]

The Federal Communications Commission will render its verdict this year on how much of broadcasters' digital TV signals cable operators must carry. FCC chairman Michael Powell last week said he [...]

Beyond partisan hand-wringing over tentative plans to make most current TV sets obsolete by 2006, last week's congressional hearing--aimed at spurring the transition to digital TV--may have intensified official focus [...]

Tracking the status of legislation to delay the digital TV transition has been a difficult feat. For now, the deadline is still Feb. 17, 2009. But that could change this [...]

Senate Democrats and Republicans on Jan. 23 reached a compromise on a bill to delay the transition to digital TV from Feb. 17 to June 12. The compromise allows broadcasters [...]

One month out from the Congress-mandated Feb. 17 transition to digital broadcast, the debate over delaying the date continues without resolution. Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-W. Va.), incoming chairman of the [...]

A victory in the Nov. 7 elections could give Democrats power to block Republican-led attempts to relax media ownership regulations. Democrats also might seek legislation requiring cable operators to carry [...]

Republican leaders in the U.S. House say they'll try again this week to pass a big budget package that includes a bill setting Dec. 31, 2008 as the date for [...]

The Federal Communications Commission on Nov. 3 is to begin considering whether it should help telephone companies surmount local franchising requirements for providing TV service. The proposed action follows comments [...]

The Senate Commerce Committee on Oct, 19 will vote on legislation that would set April 7, 2009 as the date for ending traditional analog TV service and Completing the switch [...]

With U.S. lawmakers about to cast important votes on digital TV, a key member of Congress is dropping hints about the road ahead--and raising fears among broadcasters that they could [...]

Cable representatives say they'll push back--and hard--at efforts by broadcasters to have Congress pass a law forcing cable to carry all digital TV broadcasts. 'It's not right,' Kyle McSlarrow, president, [...]

Broadcasters want everybody to know they're not about to get outmaneuvered in the quickening struggle over digital TV in Washington, where they want policy that forces cable operators to carry [...]

Rep. Joe Barton (R-Texas) last week said he soon would introduce legislation to set a firm date for ending analog TV service and finishing the transition to digital TV. Barton [...]

Republican leaders in the House want to set a hard cutoff date for analog TV transmissions and plan to move a bill through committee and on to the full House [...]

Federal regulators last week moved toward approving a way to thwart computer-driven piracy of digital TV broadcasts, a step networks and Hollywood say is needed if high value entertainment is [...]

The Federal Communications Commission, eager to speed the transition to digital TV, says it wants to rule quickly on a standard aimed at easing cable customers adoption of digital sets. [...]

A House Judiciary panel last week became the latest body to assume a role in deciding how to protect digital TV from Internet piracy, stepping into a process recently dominated [...]

The Federal Communications Commission should consider mandating that digital TVs be capable of receiving digital signals via cable, just as the agency has required digital tuners for over-the-air signals, according [...]

What to do if you're a big network exec and your local affiliate isn't passing through all the digital programming your company sends out? CBS executive vp Marty Franks went [...]

Congress recessed last week to campaign for next month's elections, leaving most bills aimed at the broadcast or cable industries half-baked or undone. Lawmakers say they will try again next [...]