The FCC is reporting that Friday’s transition from analog to digital TV transmissions was largely uneventful. No major outages or problems were reported. Their toll free helpline was flooded with calls – over 317,000 – from people who couldn’t figure out how to operate their new converter boxes, but the FCC said most problems were more »

The U.S. Senate has voted to delay the upcoming digital TV transition by 4 months to June 12. Congress is expected to pass the proposal today amid loud protests from broadcasters and Republican lawmakers. The Obama administration has been pushing for a delay ever since the government program set up to distribute coupons for the converter boxes consumers who rely on analog signals will need to continue receiving broadcasts ran out of money. It now has a waiting list of over 2 million.

I have often passed a parcel of property that I’d love to buy knowing that sometime or another it would be a great investment. Immediate timing is not always right for an acquisition but down the road it could be perfect. This is just the position that Dish Network has found itself in. Was it by chance or was it a calculated bet?

Recently, blocks of wireless airwaves came up for auction since the analog TV will soon go all digital. In a surprising turn of events Dish Network partnered with Frontier Wireless won a block of one-way communication licenses.

All that’s left is Bush’s John Hancock to put in stone the deadline for all American televisions to go digital. The date will be February 17, 2009, where all US TVs will either need to be digital or have a digital to analog converter. Luckily for consumers prices are falling too. This past holiday buying more »