An unexpected spike in requests has sapped all the money from the federal program that offers coupons for digital TV converter boxes. On Sunday, the program received requests for the last of the 51.5 ...

Today's column will address the problems created for those who do not qualify for the government's free TV converter-box coupons. First, we must look at an overview of the program for those who do ...

A U.S. government program providing vouchers for digital television converters to people whose TV sets will stop working on Feb. 17 has run out of money. The U.S. National Telecommunications and ...

America has handed out the last coupons to be used towards the purchase of a digital terrestrial TV converter box. Congress had allocated $1.34bn to be distributed as coupons worth $40 each. Every US ...

With the deadline only six months away, demand for digital TV conversion boxes - and the coupons to help pay for them - is surging. On Feb. 17, 2009, almost all television broadcasts in the United ...

Pearl TV, a consortium comprised of local television broadcasters and other stakeholders in that industry, is launching a new program that aims to make it easier for Americans to purchase converter ...

NEW YORK -- The agency that mails out coupons for digital TV converter boxes expects to eliminate its wait list in two and a half weeks, an official said Thursday. Helped by $650 million from the ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. consumers who wait too long to request government coupons to subsidize converter boxes for the digital television transition in February may come up empty-handed, a ...

The transition to digital broadcast television has been delayed until June, causing confusion because some broadcasters already switched as scheduled on February 17. One company is helping consumers ...

David Simmons, of Trumbull, still gets his TV shows the old-fashioned way ---- from an antenna. For him and millions of other viewers nationwide, June 12 was a dark day, for it was the day that all ...