Another 158 TV stations to kill analog early
(AP) -- Regulators have cleared 158 TV stations around the country to shut down their analog broadcast signals before June 12, when the remaining full-power stations will end theirs.
View ArticleBroadcasters keep upper hand in TV disputes
(AP) -- A recent spate of TV blackouts and the lack of government intervention suggests that broadcasters have the upper hand over TV signal providers when it comes to negotiating fees, at least until...
View ArticleFans relieved to be able to watch Outback Bowl
(AP) -- College football fans were elated that they could stay home to watch the Florida Gators play the Penn State Nittany Lions in Saturday's Outback Bowl, after Sinclair Broadcast Group Inc. and two...
View ArticleTime Warner Cable customers face another blackout
(AP) -- Once again, Time Warner Cable subscribers face the possibility of losing one of their local network TV stations.
View ArticleCourt bars streaming of TV programming online
(AP) -- In a key victory for television broadcasters, a federal court has ordered a Seattle start-up called ivi Inc. to stop distributing broadcast signals over the Internet without their consent.
View ArticleThird Galileo satellite begins transmitting navigation signal
(Phys.org)—Europe's third Galileo satellite has transmitted its first test navigation signals back to Earth. The two Galileo satellites launched last October have reached their final orbital position...
View ArticleBroadcasters display mobile TV dongles at NAB Show
The key weapon in TV broadcasters' fight with Internet video upstart Aereo is something inelegantly known as a dongle.
View ArticleKumu Networks claims its wireless full duplex technology doubles capacity
(Phys.org) —Kumu Networks, co-founded by Stanford professor Sachin Katti, has announced that the company has developed technology that allows for full duplex wireless communications—it lets, the...
View ArticleAnalog TV signals to be interrupted in 'soft test'
(AP) -- TV stations around the country will replace their analog broadcasts for a few minutes Thursday with reminders that those broadcasts will disappear completely in three weeks.
View ArticleFriday is last day to apply for digital TV coupon
(AP) -- The government program that provides $40 coupons for digital TV converter boxes is winding down.
View ArticleGadgets for free TV arrive, but will buyers bite?
(AP) -- Being able to watch live TV on the go sounds like an appealing idea. Indeed, Audiovox Corp. says its RCA-branded portable, battery-powered televisions sell well. But there's a problem: people...
View ArticleJapan goes digital after turning off analogue TV
Japan on Sunday shifted to digital terrestrial broadcasting, switching off its analogue television network in all areas except those worst hit by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, the government said.
View ArticleTV channel squeeze proposed to pay for tax cuts
(AP) -- Call it the Great Channel Squeeze.
View ArticleMicrosoft advocates new WiFi-NC to make use of white spaces in spectrum
(PhysOrg.com) -- Four years ago, the FCC began allowing limited use of the so-called white spaces in the electromagnetic spectrum that is shared by all wireless devices (in the United States). The...
View Article'Super Wi-Fi' poised for growth in US, elsewhere
Move over Wi-Fi, there's a new wireless technology coming.
View ArticleResearchers study best use of 'whitespace' spectrum
(Phys.org)—The demand for faster, more mobile Internet access for smartphones, tablets and laptops does more than strain the available space we have in our pockets and bags. There's a finite amount of...
View ArticleBBC pulls plug on world's oldest teletext service
BBC Ceefax, the world's first teletext service, ceased transmission on Tuesday after delivering 38 years of up-to-the-minute news and sports updates to the British public.
View ArticleNew Dish box sends TV shows 'hopping' to iPad
Last year, Dish revealed a new set-top box called Hopper that can send the TV signal "hopping" from room to room, covering all the TVs in the house. This year, it's upgrading the Hopper so that it...
View ArticleNielsen to begin counting broadband viewing homes
The company that measures television viewership will soon begin counting people who watch programming through broadband instead of a traditional broadcast or cable hook-up.
View ArticleZone of silence: Testing satellite antennas
(Phys.org) —Satellite engineers learn to get used to the weirdly hushed interior of the Compact Payload Test Range in ESA's ESTEC technical centre area, in Noordwijk, the Netherlands. In this zone of...
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