Noticias y Multimedia

Informasen de las noticias más recientes sobre la transición a televisión digital en los estados unidos. El 17 de febrero de 2009, usted recibirá mejores imágenes, mejor sonido y más canales gratuitas. Aún algunas personas no necesitarán hacer nada antes del cambio a digital, es probable que usted conozca a alguien que tendrá que prepararse para el cambio con una de las tres opciones. Le hemos proveído con recursos debajo para ayudarle informar a su familia y a sus amigos sobre la transición a digital.

Multimedia

• DTV Q&A in Other Languages
  Download PDF-version DTV Q&A documents in many foreign languages.
  Please choose a language Ahmaric Arabic Armenian Assamese Basque Bengali Bosnian Bulgarian Canadian French Chinese Simplified Chinese Traditional Cornish Croatian Czech Danish Dutch Estonian Farsi Finnish Flemish French Georgian German Greek Guj Haitian Creole Hausa Hindi Hmong Hungarian Index2.php Indonesian Italian Japanese Kannada Kashmiri Khmer Korean Kurdish Malayalam Malaysian Marathi Mongolian Nepali Polish Portuguese Punjabi Romanian Russian Samoan Sanskrit Somali Spanish Swahili Tagalog Tajik Tamil Telugu Urdu Vietnamese Welsh
• DTV Action Spots
  Watch our television spots concerning the DTV transition.
• DTV transition downloadable flyer
  The switch to digital television (DTV) is coming. Get ready for dramatically better television.
• DTV transition downloadable one-pager (English)
  February 17, 2009 is right around the corner. Are you ready for DTV?
• DTV transition downloadable one-pager (Spanish)
  February 17, 2009 is right around the corner. Are you ready for DTV?
• Know Your Options Fact Sheet
  Decision tree to help understand your options
  En Espanol
• Coupon Program Fact Sheet
  Information on how to apply for TV converter box coupons
  En Espanol

DTV in the News

• 850,000 Ask Government For TV-Converter Coupons
  Washington Post, Jan 4th, 2008
  More than 850,000 people requested $40 coupons for converter boxes with which old television sets can receive digital signals after the United States abandons analog broadcasts next year.
• Got an older TV? Read this
  Consumer Reports, Jan 1st, 2008
  If you get TV reception through an antenna, as roughly 42 million U.S. homes do, things will change for you in February 2009. That's when television broadcasters will stop sending analog signals and will switch to all-digital broadcasting.
• TV looks toward a digital future
  Daily Emerald, Dec 3rd, 2008
  People thinking of purchasing a television this holiday season may want to consider whether they will want to watch free, over-the-air programming. On Feb. 17, 2009 all television stations in the U.S. will stop broadcasting in analog and will begin broadcasting digitally.

Press Releases

• NAB Expands DTV Consumer Education Efforts with Release of
  NAB, Mar 28th, 2008
  In a continuing effort to reach diverse audiences with information about the digital television (DTV) transition, National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) has produced DTV educational literature in 20 languages. The literature, which is available online at www.dtvanswers.com, complements a wide variety of educational materials already provided by NAB.
• Nab Urges Converter Box Coupon Program Eligibility for Seniors in Assisted Living Facilities and Nursing Homes
  NAB, Mar 11th, 2008
  NAB President and CEO David K. Rehr sent the following letter to Assistant Secretary Meredith Attwell Baker urging her to revisit the National Telecommunications and Information Administration’s policies that may be preventing thousands of eligible seniors from participating in the digital television transition converter box coupon program.
• Consumer Awareness of Digital Television (DTV) Transition Reaches 79 Percent
  NAB, Jan 31st, 2008
  Consumer awareness of the federally-mandated transition to digital television (DTV) has grown substantially over the past year, reaching 79 percent according to a survey commissioned by the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB).

Related Resources

• DTV Transition Coalition
  More than 200 business, trade, industry and grassroots organizations have joined together to spread the word about the digital television transition.
• DTV Speakers Bureau
  The nation's largest speakers bureau of television station representatives will reach 8,000 audiences by the switch date.
• DTV Road Show
  Two trucks designed to look like giant TV sets have hit the road to bring information about the transition to communities across the country.
• LPTV Answers.com
  NAB has created a comprehensive guide to help you continue receiving programming from low-power stations that are not required to go all-digital.
• National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA)
  A bureau of the U.S. Commerce Department, the NTIA administers the TV converter box coupon program.
• Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
  This independent U.S. government agency oversees various aspects of the media and communications industries, including the digital television transiton.

For reporters or broadcast station members seeking additional information, please contact us at dtvanswers@nab.org.