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 ...

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 ...

NEW YORK (AP) -- TV stations across the U.S. started cutting their analog signals this morning, ending a 60-year run for the technology and likely stranding more than 1 million unprepared homes ...

A few weeks ago, Washington woke up and realized that February 17, 2009 was less than two years away. This wouldn't matter except that it's the day the government has chosen to be the end of analog ...

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 ...

Congress passed a federal law, the Digital Television Transition and Public Safety Act of 2005, mandating the last day of full-power analog television broadcasting be Feb. 17, 2009. The purpose was to ...

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 ...

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TV stations across the U.S. started cutting their analog signals Friday morning, ending a 60-year run for the technology and likely stranding more than 1 million unprepared homes without TV service.