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Digital TV: Org to sponsor David Gilliland's No. 38 car -- How do you get word out about the coming switch to all-digital TV? If you're the Federal Communications Commission, you sponsor NASCAR, the biggest spectator sport in the country.
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Digital TV: FCC frets over upcoming digital transition -- Despite some success in a recent test-market switch to all-digital television signals, lawmakers remain concerned about a possible million-plus viewer complaints flooding stations and the FCC in the initial days after broadcasters flip the switch for good on Feb. 17.
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Digital TV: Broadcasters turning off analog days before -- At least a few viewers tuning into the 81st Annual Academy Awards may find static instead.
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Digital TV: Apple missing from tech consortium -- Five out of the six majors have banded together on a tech consortium to help standardize digital media for maximum portability.
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Digital TV: Co. reportedly being courted by local tycoons -- Television Broadcasts, Hong Hong's dominant commercial TV group, upped revenues 8% to HK$2.07 billion ($265 million) as net profits edged ahead 1% to $64.5 million in the first half, compared to the previous year.
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Digital TV: NBJ has invested $92,865 in the company -- News Corp.-owned News Broadcasting Japan is launching digital broadcasting start-up BS Fox, the company announced on Tuesday.
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Digital TV: Troubles may foreshadow nationwide difficulties -- Problems with old-fashioned television antennas were the most common issue among residents of Wilmington, N.C., a city that volunteered to switch to digital broadcasting more than five months before the rest of the country.
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Digital TV: Southern city first in U.S. to make the switch -- With the flick of an eight-foot switch at midday Monday, this Southern city became the first market in the U.S. to make the change to digital-only broadcasting.
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Digital TV: Staff to visit cities with 15% analog TV users -- Coming soon to a town hall near you: the Federal Communications Commission with a message about how to survive the impending switch to all-digital television.
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Digital TV: Deputy PM says no to subscription channels -- Spain's deputy prime minister, Maria Teresa Fernandez de la Vega, has nixed pay TV channels on the new digital terrestrial TV platform.
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Digital TV: Report: Half of households will be connected -- Chinese households will account for half of all digital TV connections in Asia within five years, according to "Asia Pacific TV," a new report by the Informa Telecoms and Media group.
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Digital TV: CSA issues licenses to TF1, M6 -- France's broadcasting authority the CSA has issued HD digital terrestrial television licenses to private networks TF1 and M6 plus pubcasters France 2 and Arte.
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Digital TV: Industry toppers dig digital at confab -- The answer to digital piracy isn't simply fighting it -- find new business models or prepare to die.
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Digital TV: Network talks 'Hills' at upfront presentation -- MTV Networks is leaving no stone unturned in its efforts to embed advertising messages into its TV shows and digital content.
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Digital TV: City acts as a test market for upcoming change -- The city of Wilmington, N.C., has volunteered to be a test market as an indicator of how well -- or poorly -- the nationwide switch to all-digital television may go next year, Federal Communications Commission chairman Kevin Martin announced Thursday.
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Digital TV: Confab puts focus on upcoming switch -- The sprawling National Assn. of Broadcasters confab has long had the feel of an auto show, with product demonstrations and a high-tech hucksterism drawing crowds of gearheads eager to test-drive the latest in broadcast and production equipment.
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Digital TV: Sets now in stores; content on the way -- The motion picture industry is making a big bet on 3-D, in part because it's supposed to promise an experience that can't be duplicated on television.
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Digital TV: Many households might not receive signal -- Days after top lawmakers expressed serious concerns that the impending switch to all-digital television may not go smoothly, a new report states that possibly half of over-the-air dependent households might not receive a picture even if they do everything the Federal Communications Commission advises.
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Digital TV: Lawmakers worry about TV change -- Less than two months since his last appearance on Capitol Hill, Federal Communications Commission chairman Kevin Martin on Tuesday once again assured hand-wringing lawmakers that the nation?s transition to all-digital television is on track.
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Digital TV: Transition causes fighting over 'white spaces' -- Ten months before the nation flips to digital television, technology companies and TV broadcasters are fighting over the virtual remote, with different ideas of what to do with the unused airwaves.