Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 187. Chapters: Telecommunication, Digital television, Analog television, John Logie Baird, Lime Grove Studios, Color television, Digital television transition in the United States, History of World Championship Wrestling, Video camera tube, History of ITV, History of professional wrestling in the United States, History of The Simpsons, History of World Wrestling Entertainment, List of experimental television stations, Trinitron, WRNY, History of MSNBC: 1996-2007, Timeline of the BBC, Alexandra Palace, WRGB, History of CNN, Association of Moving Image Archivists, Timeline of the introduction of color television in countries, Mechanical television, Beam-index tube, History of MSNBC: 2008-present, Elstree Studios, Timeline of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, 405-line television system, Iconoscope, Chromatron, Television networks preceding ABC Family, Paley Center for Media, Timeline of the introduction of television in countries, Archive of American Television, Penetron, History of television in Atlanta, Geer tube, RCA Dimensia, Telectroscope, BBC Archives, Aiken tube, Image dissector, National Media Museum, Early television stations, Nipkow disk, Phonevision, Golden Age of Television, 441-line television system, Porta-Color, Northern Region Film and Television Archive, Museum of Broadcast Communications, Plasmatron, Television systems before 1940, A.C. Cossor, O2 Shepherds Bush Empire, Guillermo González Camarena, Narrow-bandwidth television, Ladram Bay, Kenjiro Takayanagi, Walter Bruch, Hybrid digital TV, MPEG Industry Forum, Toddlers' Truce, Timeline of broadcast in Turkey, Media Archive for Central England, Midwest Program on Airborne Television Instruction, Scophony, W1WX, Frith Street, Fernsehsender Paul Nipkow, KC2XAK, DuMont Laboratories, W6XAH, Einheitsempfänger, EUscreen, BBC Television Orchestra, W5XA, KVN-49, Video Active, Stooky Bill, Television news of the civil rights era 1950-70, W3XK, W2XCR, Guerrilla TV, 180 lines, The World Is Yours, Early Television Museum, Georges Valensi, Sony TV8-301, Quintrix, W1XAY, Least offensive programming, DTV Border Fix Act, Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, Charles Jenkins Laboratories. Excerpt: The DTV (an abbreviation of digital television, also called digital broadcast) transition in the United States was the switchover from analog (the traditional method of transmitting television signals) to exclusively digital broadcasting of free over-the-air television programming. The transition from analog to digital television has been described by David Rehr, president and CEO of the National Association of Broadcasters, as representing "the most significant advancement of television technology since color TV was introduced." For full-power TV stations, the transition went into effect on Friday June 12, 2009, with stations ending regular programming on their analog signals no later than 11:59 p.m. local time that day. Under the Digital Transition and Public Safety Act of 2005, full-power broadcasting of analog television in the United States would have ceased after Tuesday February 17, 2009. To help U.S. consumers through the conversion, the Act also established a federally-sponsored DTV Converter Box Coupon Program. The DTV Delay Act changed the mandatory analog cutoff date to June 12, although stations were permitted to cease analog transmissions before the new mandatory cutoff date. The legislation was enacted on February 4, 2009, and on February...