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Allen Weiner is a research vice president for Gartner's Media IAS service. Mr. Weiner has more than 25 years of experience as an analyst, writer, editor, publisher and broadcaster. He has written about media trends in daily newspapers and magazines as well as serving as a chief analyst and… Read Full Bio

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Digital Transition Delay Shot Down

by Allen Weiner  |  January 28, 2009  |  2 Comments

This just in: the House failed to pass legislation approved by the Senate that would delay the digital transition (shut down of analog broadcast in the U.S.) The house vote required a two-thirds majority and fell short thus blocking President Obama’s effort to serve the approximately 6.5 million households not ready for the Feb. 17 cut over.

Observers believe there will be additional efforts to delay the transition with a new bill making its way to the legislature containing a number of amendments.

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  • 1 Allen Weiner: Digital Transition Delay Shot Down   January 28, 2009 at 5:57 pm

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  • 2 John Pescatore   January 29, 2009 at 12:23 pm

    My mother-in-law lives in a senior’s apartment and really only watches network television on the rabbit ear antenna on her older analog TVs. Since that will get knocked off the air after the digital transition, I’ve been working to get her converted – what a disaster.

    The problem is all about the antenna for most people. Digital needs more signal strength or it is unusable – outdoor antennas are going to be needed for many, the $35-70 amplified antennas being sold like crazy are only going to help those that are very close to the antenna.

    This will basically force a lot of people to pay for basic cable who didn’t really need it – I guess that is better for the US economy than spurring them to buy foreign made new digital TVs, though.