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The digital television transition involves a new policy paradigm for over-the-air (OTA) broadcasters, broadcasting distributors (BDUs), pay and specialty channels, as well as the introduction of high-definition television (HD) into the greater broadcasting system. ... In early 2009, Congress made changes to the 2005 Digital Television ...

Technology TV industry making big changes to the way stations transmit over-the-air signals By Matt Sepic More than a decade after TV stations shut down analog broadcasts and fully transitioned to digital, the industry is once again making major changes to the way stations transmit over-the-air signals. NextGen is the biggest change to broadcast TV since 2009, when stations shut down the analog signals that they'd been transmitting since the 1940s and transitioned fully to digital. Consumer Reports electronics editor James Willcox says NextGen promises big upgrades for over-the-air TV, but he fears stations could limit viewers' ability to time delay shows and save recordings, which they've done for decades. Given the challenges with NextGen rollout, Willcox and other observers expect the FCC to extend that sunset date. If you tune in - try to tune in one of the other ones, we get unable to play channel; content protection required.

Television sets that were not ready for the digital transition were viewed about one-third of the time compared to ready sets. Unready sets were viewed 1.5 hours a day on average, while ready sets were viewed 5.1 hours per day. ... Stations that changed channel positions from UHF (ultra high frequency) to VHF (very high frequency) were more ...