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- McCain aims to end DTV transition by '09.(News)
- Byline: HEATHER FORSGREN WEAVER Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), former chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee and frequent critic of the TV broadcast lobby, plans to introduce a bill Tuesday that would end the transition to digital TV at Jan. ...
- Research articles 2005-06-13
- More channels, power for DTV: FCC's revised digital assignments include more core spectrum, higher limits for UHFs.(digital television, Federal Communications Commission, ultra-high frequency)(includes related article on digital television requirement)
- UHF broadcasters won their battle for more power and the industry won extra spectrum last week when the FCC released its revised plan for matching each TV station with a channel for digital television. UHF broadcasters won their battle for more power...
- Research articles 1998-02-23
- Washington's big week.(Brief Article)
- Hill wants answers on DTV rollout; FCC to get an earful on AOL-TW merger Washington policymakers will meet on two of the TV industry's hottest issues this week. At a Capitol Hill hearing on Tuesday (July 25), House lawmakers will try...
- Research articles 2000-07-24
- House goes with Dec. 31, 2008, after seven hour debate on DTV.(News)
- Byline: HEATHER FORSGREN WEAVER After more than seven hours of debate, the House Commerce Committee last week passed a bill to complete the digital TV transition by Dec. 31, 2008, and earmark $500 million for public-safety interoperability. ...
- Research articles 2005-10-31
- Public safety gets fed's full attention; Wireless bureau likely to take smaller role.
- Byline: HEATHER FORSGREN WEAVER In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, FCC Chairman Kevin Martin said that he intends to create a new Homeland Security and Public Safety Bureau. Likewise, the issue of public-safety interoperable communications-inc Byline: HEATHER FORSGREN...
- Research articles 2005-09-19
- Senate sets TV transition date three months after House bill.(News)
- Byline: HEATHER FORSGREN WEAVER The Senate late Thursday agreed to set the date to complete the digital TV transition at April 7, 2009, after a failed attempt to move the date to April 2008. "We have...
- Research articles 2005-11-07
- 700 MHz spectrum could be freed up in '09.
- Byline: HEATHER FORSGREN WEAVER Now that TV broadcasters have accepted a hard date for the transition to digital TV, lobbying for parts of the spectrum probably will ratchet up. Indeed, 20 megahertz of the spectrum being...
- Research articles 2005-07-18
- Digital deal diminishes auction opposition; McCain still likely to raise issue at Senate Commerce.(auction of digital TV channels)(US Senator John McCain)
- McCain still likely to raise issue at Senate Commerce Broadcasters may be forced into another battle on Capitol Hill next year over digital TV spectrum auctions, but at least they'll face less opposition. As part of...
- Research articles 1996-12-02
- NAB bests McCain on DTV transition: broadcaster clout kills Senator's bill to take back analog spectrum by '09.(Policy)(National Association of Broadcasters)(McCain, John)(Digital Television)
- WASHINGTON -- Watching Senate Commerce Committee chairman John McCain (R-Ariz.) tangle with the National Association of Broadcasters is a little like watching the Washington Generals shoot hoops with the Harlem Globetrotters: the outcome is preorda WASHINGTON -- Watching Senate Commerce Committee chairman John ...
- Research articles 2004-09-27
- Plea: take back DTV spectrum. (Policy).(Brief Article)
- WASHINGTON -- A prominent consumer group last week called on the government to seize TV broadcasters' digital spectrum as a wasting resource that should be transferred to the more dynamic wireless highspeed data industry. "It is time for ...
- Research articles 2003-04-28
- Broadcasters don't want to share. (Capital Watch).(the broadcast spectrum until the digital television transition is complete)(Brief Article)
- The FCC should not allow unlicensed or other new services to use broadcast spectrum until the DTV transition is complete, NAB and MSTV say. Commenting on an FCC spectrum-policy report that raised the idea, the groups maintained that adding se ...
- Research articles 2003-02-03
- Redistributing channels 60-69. (Federal Communications Commission)(Brief Article)
- FCC commissioners last week wrapped up their effort to reallocate UHF spectrum m the channel 60-69 band. As the commission had proposed in July, channels 62, 63, 68 and 69 were allocated to public safety applications such as police and ambulance c FCC...
- Research articles 1998-01-05
- Hill poses digital dilemma for broadcasters. (Congress members propose that broadcasters pay for digital spectrum)(Brief Article)
- Until two weeks ago, broadcasters thought they had a deal with Congress that laid the foundation for the industry's entry into the digital television business. But when the new year came without the enactment of a new telecommunications bill, eve Until two...
- Research articles 1996-01-22
- Granite calls for DTV pool.(auction channels 2-59)
- TV group urges broadcasters to band together to lease out spare digital spectrum As broadcasters grope for ways to recoup their heavy investment in digital television, they may want to give Granite Broadcasting President Stuart Beck a call. ...
- Research articles 2000-02-07
- McCain wants to work with Stevens on DTV bill.(News)
- Byline: HEATHER FORSGREN WEAVER Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) said he hopes to work with Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) to craft a bill that would end the uncertainty on the transition to digital TV. ...
- Research articles 2005-06-20
- Broadcasters score big in digital. (digital TV broadcasting bill)
- Lost amid the tabulation of industry wins and losses in the House telecom bill last week was a largely unopposed victory for broadcasters that is likely to have a profound and, some say, delaying impact on the rollout of digital TV in the United Stat Lost...
- Research articles 1995-05-29
- 700 MHz auctions, take 6: House Energy and Commerce leaders introduce bill to delay auctions yet again. (Washington).(Brief Article)
- It looks like the five-times delayed auction of the 700 MHz spectrum could be going for an even half-dozen. The House Energy and Commerce Committee nearly unanimously agrees that the FCC should delay the auction indefinitely--it is currently ...
- Research articles 2002-04-29
- ABC's Iger says auction could kill free TV. (Robert Iger, auction of digital TV spectrum)(Brief Article)
- CapCities/ABC President Robert Igor told a group of Washington communications lawyers last week that the broadcasting industry may not survive if Congress decides to auction spectrum now set aside for the transition to digital television. "A CapCities/ABC President Robert Igor told a...
- Research articles 1996-02-26
- Congress disses datacasting.(Brief Article)
- Tells broadcasters they had better concentrate on HDTV first--or else When it comes to digital TV, broadcasters shouldn't bank on the law that permits them to offer datacasting and other additional services. At least, that seems to be the mes ...
- Research articles 2000-07-31
- NCTA might back digital TV auction policy. (National Cable Television Association)
- WASHINGTON -- The cable industry is giving conditional support for digital TV auctions, saying broad use of the digital airwaves would give TV stations an unnecessary $11 billion to $70 billion subsidy. In the past, the cable industry has do ...
- Research articles 1996-12-02
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