The Obama transition team asked Congress and the FCC to delay the digital television transition because the Feb. 17 deadline would cause too much confusion—and because converter coupon problems could keep millions of households from making the switch. That turned out to be a great way to sow even more…

The major TV networks, such as CBS (NYSE: CBS), NBC and ABC, say they’ll wait to turn off their analog signals until the new June 12 voluntary deadline, giving new meaning to the bill passed by Congress yesterday, reports Reuters. Yesterday, the U.S. House passed a bill from the Senate…

On its second try, the House voted today to delay the transition to digital TV until June 12. The vote comes less than two weeks before broadcasters were supposed to turn off their analog signals and move over to digital, reports The Washington Post. The complicated part about the bill…

The U.S. Senate unanimously passed a second bill on Thursday that would allow broadcasters to drop their analog signals on Feb. 17 as originally planned—or not. The first bill passed on Monday would require all broadcasters to wait until June 12 to move over to the digital signals exclusively, but…

The debate over the date of the switch to digital TV continues: The House defeated the bill passed by the Senate on Monday, which would have delayed the transition from Feb. 17 to June 12. (Via the Baltimore Sun.) The Obama transition team called for the delay partly to give…

My living room TV passed—and failed—a five-minute test of the Feb. 17 transition to digital television. The exercise on local TV stations across the U.S. was conducted in my area tonight (the tests are being done on different days) to let consumers see if they need converters for the February…