Sanjay Talwani

Broadcasters seek DTV flexibility

FCC readies rules for unlicensed devices

They see themselves less as guinea pigs and more as pioneers taking a giant leap into the digital future at noon on Sept. 8.

Many broadcasters have had just about enough with all the digital and the upgrading and the government mandates. But there’s another major transition ahead, and this one could save lives.

The FCC has laid down the law for television broadcasters still dragging their heels on the road toward full-power DTV.

The first coupon-eligible converter boxes hit stores in February, and word of the transition seems to have gotten out to the public.

If disaster or terror strikes Las Vegas, the city’s public broadcaster figures its DTV signal will be part of the response.

Broadcasters fear this chill may last

ND broadcaster jumpstarts DTV after freak storm devastates transmission facilities

New facilities mean 'functionally, we can do anything'

ROCHESTER, N.Y.: One night about two years ago, Lt. Dan Bender of the Rochester (N.Y.) Fire Department, was watching HBO on-demand, and got an idea.

In an otherwise sketchy financial landscape, revenue from retransmission rights is helping broadcasters make it to the promised land of 2008, with its elections and Olympics.

The new CNN Election Express hit the road last month, bringing the news network’s newest, most powerful HD tool to the candidates.

Virginia Massey, who watches WRAL in Raleigh, N.C., doesn’t know exactly how she’ll get television after the digital transition.