. Do you watch cable news? Is it necessary to pay for cable tv to get 24 hour news channels? Using a tv antenna to pick up free over-the-air tv allows me to pick up: NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams ABC World News with Diane Sawyer CBS Evening News with Katie Couric PBS Newshour [...]
Last year, I wrote a post illustrating that while most people spend a lot of money on cable or satellite TV, the most popular shows are broadcast over-the-air (OTA) for free. That is still true today as indicated by last week’s ratings. The top 10 over-the-air shows each had over 13 million viewers, while the [...]
The U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill to delay the conversion to digital TV until June 12th. The conversion had been scheduled for February 17th. Just last week, the House rejected a bill to delay the conversion. The Senate has already passed the bill to delay the conversion and President Obama is certain to [...]
Despite President Obama’s desire to delay the conversion to digital TV, the House of Representatives stopped a bill that would have delayed the conversion until June 12, 2009. Despite the Senate unanimously agreeing earlier this week to dealy the conversion, 13 Democrats were joined most Republicans in the House effort to disallow the delay. Kara [...]
While Congress may delay the February 17th conversion to digital TV, you still need to use any coupons you already have before they expire. I noticed that my digital tv coupons were expiring on 1/29 so I went out during lunch today to pick up my second converter box. Target had a $49.99 model and [...]