Cable Industry Issue Spotlight

Texas Disaster Relief Fund
In times of trial, Texans are known to drop everything, roll up their sleeves and do what it takes to help their neighbors. In that spirit, Gov. Rick Perry established the Texas Disaster Relief Fund, A Non-Profit Corporation, to provide a rapid conduit between donors and communities in need.

Digital Television Transition

By law, American television stations will end all analog broadcasts on February 17, 2009 and begin broadcasting exclusively in a digital format. This frees up spectrum for police and other emergency personnel, plus provides better video and sound quality, more channels and choice. Television sets connected to cable, satellite or a telephone company video service provider should not be affected, but TV sets that are not connected to cable or satellite, or do not have a built-in digital tuner, will need a converter box. Learn More +

Read the latest TCA DTV Newsletter: 3 Months Until the Digital Television Transition (Dec. 17, 2008)


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The problem with FiOS, and AT&T's U-Verse, is that the deployments aren't large enough to offset the losses in the other areas they serve, Moffett said. Qwest has fended off some cable competition through fiber-optic upgrades of its network, but the rollout has gone slowly. Cable is taking share in the areas where the telcos aren't upgrading.

October 30, 2008, Wall Street Journal

84% of all adults had heard of the digital transition next February, nearly double the rate from six months earlier. However, about 34% of all U.S. households are at risk of losing broadcast reception to at least one TV set as a result of the transition.

Leichtman Research Group, June 10, 2008

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