An unexpected spike in requests has sapped all the money from the federal program that offers coupons for digital TV converter boxes. On Sunday, the program received requests for the last of the 51.5 ...

A U.S. government program providing vouchers for digital television converters to people whose TV sets will stop working on Feb. 17 has run out of money. The U.S. National Telecommunications and ...

With the deadline only six months away, demand for digital TV conversion boxes - and the coupons to help pay for them - is surging. On Feb. 17, 2009, almost all television broadcasts in the United ...

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin said at the International Consumer Electronics Show today that Congress should authorize more funds for converter box discounts so that more ...

I've got a Series 2 Tivo and I just get OTA TV. Tivo has finally released a list of supported digital converter boxes as well as the software upgrade to support their use. Has anyone used any of these ...

It's a conversion that won't take place until February, but Siouxlanders are sure shopping for converter boxes that enable older analog televisions to handle digital transmission. Months out from the ...

Last month, Discount Diva Samantha Christmann reported that some Spectrum Cable customers in the City of Buffalo would start seeing their bills increase. The cable ...

Setting up a converter box to receive digital signals is easier than you think. — -- Most of the U.S. television audience won't have to do a thing to prepare for the coming demise of analog TV.

NEW YORK -- The agency that mails out coupons for digital TV converter boxes expects to eliminate its wait list in two and a half weeks, an official said Thursday. Helped by $650 million from the ...

This is WEEKEND EDITION from NPR News. I'm Scott Simon. Coming up, a writer who finds humor in life's darkest moments, but first in less than 10 months, television stations across the country will ...

WASHINGTON — President-elect Barack Obama is urging Congress to postpone the Feb. 17 switch from analog to digital television broadcasting, arguing that too many Americans who rely on analog TV sets ...