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- Title
The Transition to Digital Television in the United States: The Endgame.
- Authors
Hart, Jeffrey A.
- Abstract
The switching off of analogue television on 12 June 2009 and the delays that led up to it are the focus of the analysis here. All digital transitions are difficult but the US transition was successful in the end, in spite of a number of decisions and policies that made life confusing and overly complicated at one time or another for all concerned. The decision to delay the analogue switch off from 17 February to 12 June 2009 was one of the first initiatives undertaken by the newly elected Obama administration. The delay was necessary because of the under-funding of a programme to provide coupons for analogue-digital converter boxes to those still dependent on over-the-air broadcasts.
- Subjects
UNITED States; DIGITAL preservation; DIGITAL television; ANALOG-to-digital converters; RADIO broadcasting; TELEVISION broadcasting; UNITED States. Federal Communications Commission; NATIONAL Association of Broadcasters; CONSUMER Electronics Association
- Publication
International Journal of Digital Television, 2010, Vol 1, Issue 1, p7
- ISSN
2040-4182
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1386/jdtv.1.1.7/1