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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

NEW YORK ? 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 ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. This week's RF Report looks back at the major RF-related stories in 2009: the analog shutdown, ...

NEW YORK -- 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 ...

Analog broadcasting, as we now know it, will end by February 2009. When the time comes, your TV has to be capable of receiving digital signals or you will end up with a very large paperweight. If you ...

They've finally set a date -- Feb. 17, 2009. That's the last day the over-the-air analog signals that have brought television programs into Americans' homes for decades will be broadcast, leaving only ...

If you already have cable to all these TVs and not rabbit ear or other over-the-air antennas, then you don't need to change anything at all.