Breitbart reports: Adult Americans spend an average of more than eight hours a day in front of screens — televisions, computer monitors, cellphones or other devices, according to a new study. For office workers, that does not seem surprising given laptop or desktop computer usage. The article continues: The study also found that live television [...]
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 [...]
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
I posted earlier about how to obtain coupons for digital converter boxes. Brian Stelter of the New York Times reports that President Obama wants to delay the conversion: …President-elect Barack Obama urged Congress to pass a bill delaying the transition by three months. Lawmakers are weighing whether to push back the scheduled Feb. 17 transition [...]
Monday, November 17, 2008
As regular readers of this site know, I am a big fan over free over-the-air television. Why pay for an expensive subscription service when so much is broadcast free of charge? Just tonight, President-elect Barack Obama’s first post-election interview was on 60 minutes, the Washington Redskins vs Dallas Cowboys football game was on, and the [...]
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Michael Learmonth at Silicon Valley Insider writes an article entitled NBC Olympics Web Video Proves TV Not Dead Yet: Reality check: NBC U has generated some impressive Web traffic from the Olympic Games, but 99.7% of the actual viewing of the Games is still happening on TV. I wonder how much of the TV viewing [...]
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