Archive for March, 2008

DTV News: Rural areas gear for digital TV

| March 21, 2008 | 1 Comments

Source: Capital Press Low-power stations, Class A television stations and translator stations that rebroadcast the signal from full-power stations in many rural areas will not be affected at first when the digital switchover occurs according to the article, but eventually will be upgraded after the February 17th, 2009 date.   There’s also a little blurb [...]

Filed Under: DTV | HD News

Who Can Requst a Coupon?

| March 14, 2008 | 0 Comments

According to the NTIA, all households in the U.S. and its territories are eligible. The Department of Commerce’s National Telecommunications and NTIA administers the TV Converter Box Coupon Program (Coupon Program), as authorized in the Digital Television Transition and Public Safety Act of 2005. If the DTV converter coupon program exhausts its $890 million coupon [...]

Filed Under: DTV Coupon Questions