Feb 13, 2008
Federal Communications Commission Chairman Pushes for Carriage of Low-Power Stations on Excess Digital Capacity.
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Feb 13, 2008
Federal Communications Commission chairman Kevin Martin is pressuring the cable industry to bail out thousands of low power TV stations that could become casualties of digital TV transition policies enforced by the FCC and the Bush administration.
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Feb 12, 2008
Government and industry officials have gathered twice at the FCC this month to discuss how they can ensure that people who watch low-power TV stations keep getting their signals after the digital transition, said a half dozen participants.
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Feb 8, 2008
Six national cable television programming companies filed an appeal in federal court of a new FCC rule that requires cable operators to offer an analog version of local broadcast DTV channels.
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Feb 8, 2008
In a bid to save full-power stations from some new FCC requirements, the NAB is considering a commission plan that would have those stations carry LPTV stations on their new digital subchannels.
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Jan 28, 2008
Meeting the Digital TV Deadline. With the analog-to-digital changeover a little more than a year away, owners of rabbit-ear sets must decide: a new set, pay TV, or a converter box
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Jan 21, 2008
Imagine this… The FCC and NTIA are being short-sighted in their efforts to complete the digital television transition. One hand doesn’t seem to know what the other hand is doing. Don’t be surprised when the public ends up confused
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Jan 14, 2008
The Community Broadcasters Association (CBA), which represents some 567 licensed Class A stations, has pointed out that these Class A member stations are not mandated to go digital and, in fact, will not any time soon. Viewers receiving analog signals from these stations will not need converter boxes
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Jan 8, 2008
Owners of thousands of small television stations that reach rural populations or specialize in community affairs and minority programming are worried the digital transition is going to leave their audiences watching a blank screen
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Dec 12, 2007
The Community Broadcasters Association is stunned that some of the digital-to-analog converter boxes approved for distribution are not equipped to pass through analog signals
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Dec 7, 2007
In a complaint to the FCC, the Community Broadcasters Association says many converter boxes will not pass through analog LPTV signals in violation of FCC regulations
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May 2, 2008
The Community Broadcasters Association has filed suit in federal court, hoping to block the sale of digital TV converter boxes that do not have an "analog pass-through." The group says the converter boxes allow old analog TV sets to receive only digital signals.
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April 1, 2008
The Community Broadcasters Association (CBA) last week asked an appeals court in Washington, D.C., to force the FCC to stop distribution and marketing of NTIA coupon-qualified converter boxes without analog-receive capability. The move has the potential to derail the nation’s transition to DTV in February 2009.
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March 27, 2008
We still haven't received our DTV Converter Box coupons yet, but at least one attorney is glad we haven't. Peter Tannwald of Fletcher, Heald & Hildredth, attorney for the Community Broadcasters Association, which represents "Class A" and Low Power TV broadcasters, is the lead counsel in a lawsuit filed this week against the FCC,
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March 14, 2008
NAB and the Community Broadcasters Association, which represents low-power, Class A and translator operators, are trading charges that the other is not behaving toward the greater mission of a successful digital transition for all viewers.
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March 6, 2008
The FCC and NTIA are being short-sighted in their efforts to complete the digital television transition. One hand doesn’t seem to know what the other hand is doing. Don’t be surprised when the public ends up confused.
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March 6, 2008
The countdown clock is ticking, but will the era of analog television broadcasting really end Feb. 17, 2009?
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March 3, 2008
Low-power broadcasters doubt they can achieve expanded carriage on cable systems and requirements that all digital TV converter boxes pick up
their signals.
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Feb 29, 2008
TV's Digital Switchover Won't Affect Everyone.
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Feb 25, 2008
Low-power television stations are warning of potentially dire consequences as the federal government forges ahead with a $1.5 billion coupon program designed to ease the nation's switch to digital television but which could strand them from millions of viewers.
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Feb 21, 2008
FCC Chairman Kevin Martin wants to do something to help low power and Class A television stations, seemingly the forgotten stepchild of the DTV conversion.
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Feb 14, 2008
Here's a link to FCC Chairman Kevin Martin's letter of February 12 asking NAB, NCTA, SIA, CEA and CERC to assist in facilitating the transition of LPTV stations from analog to digital by 2012.
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Feb 13, 2008
The DTV conversion is going well, or not, depending on which stakeholder you talk to. Broadcasters, retailers and manufacturers say they will do a better than adequate job because they have to. Others, particularly consumer advocates, aren't so sure.
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On December 7, 2007, the Community Broadcasters association ("CBA") filed a complaint with the FCC showing that the converter boxes approved by the FCC that do not pass an analog signal violate the all channel receiver act. The CBA tried extensively to get the CEA and the FCC to change these boxes to add NTSC tuners but we had no luck.
Our Industry's blood is boiling over the fact that the FCC would actually allow our tax dollars to be used to make converter boxes that take our analog viewers away from us and potentially put us out of business
Comments To NTIA Complaints To The FCC Press Release DTV Points

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