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02.04.2009 5:24 pm

TV’s off-again, on-again digital switch is off again

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Forget Feb. 17; now it’s June 12 for TV’s switch to all-digital broadcasting after the House joined the Senate Wednesday in approving the delay. If the wait  were used to put more coupons into people’s hands, to make sure shelves…

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01.28.2009 2:46 pm

TV’s digital switch is back on for Feb. 17

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

The House refused today to follow the Senate in voting to delay TV stations’ mandatory switch to all-digital broadcasting, so the change is back on for Feb. 17. I think this was the correct decision. But unlike many of the people…

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01.26.2009 7:44 pm

Forget Feb. 17; digital switch may be delayed till June

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Can you even count the ways the transition to digital broadcasting has been screwed up? In the first place, the government never should have mandated it without considering unintended consequences more fully. Did they know how many analog TVs were still in homes and…

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01.08.2009 8:41 pm

Poll: Should Congress delay the switch to digital TV?

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

As you’ve heard endlessly, the switch to digital broadcasting from analog is set for Feb. 17, just five weeks away. But problems continue to come up, money for the coupon program has run out, and President-elect Obama, as detailed in…

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