After a delay of nearly 12 hours, the FCC on Tuesday night approved a regulation forcing cable operators to carry both analog and digital TV channels transmitted by some local TV stations. By Brooks ...

A federal mandate will kill analog television broadcasts early next year, but it won’t kill analog once and for all. How much longer analog will survive is largely a question for cable TV companies, ...

I am tweaking an HTPC which right now has no TV card, but I am considering getting one. However, I am a bit confused about how it will work for the next few years as far as cable TV.<BR><BR>Right now, ...

Time Warner Cable is working through the process to eliminate having to send analog signals, opening up more bandwidth that could be sent through the cord. They are not alone in this. That the Game ...

WASHINGTON – The Federal Communications Commission approved rules Tuesday night that it says will ensure that millions of cable subscribers will still be able to watch broadcast programming after the ...

One factor that’s been undefined in the U.S. digital television transition has been cable services: the mandate to convert to digital broadcasting does not apply to analog television services offered ...

Analog television owners have an extra three years of breathing room thanks to a new ruling by the FCC. On Tuesday, the government agency voted 5-to-0 to adopt rules mandating that cable providers ...

Cue the scary music. According to FCC Chairman Kevin Martin, "If the cable companies had their way, you, your mother and father, or your next door neighbor could go to sleep one night after watching ...

ALEXANDRIA, VA.—As television engineers age, those brought up in the era of analog signals and the subsequent transition to digital are retiring and talking hard-earned knowledge with them. Younger ...

Here’s a little known fact about cable TV service from Time Warner Cable: Digital cable is cheaper than analog. In Orange County, Time Warner’s digital cable package includes 200 channels, on-demand ...

Mediacom Communications Corp. will begin phasing out all but 17 channels of analog cable television service on March 1 in a nine-county area of Eastern Iowa that includes the Corridor, moving toward a ...

Mediacom Communications Corp. will begin phasing out all but 17 channels of analog cable television service on March 1 in a nine-county area of Eastern Iowa that includes the Corridor, moving toward a ...