US Digital TV Switchover Delayed Until June

necro81 writes "The Delay DTV Act was passed first by the Senate, now by the House, and will be signed by the President. The hard cutoff for turning off analog TV broadcasts in the US has been pushed out to June 12th. The act had earlier failed to gain a 2/3rds majority in the House, but passed this afternoon with a simple majority. The bill allows stations to cease analog transmissions at any point between Feb 17th (the old cutoff) and June 12th, and many have signaled they will do so."

Re:Many stations switchin anyway...

[Anonymous Coward]

They should have cut the analog signal 1 hour before the superbowl

Then take everybody who are wondering why "tv no work" and just shoot them.

Washington comes together...

[korney]

Washington comes together, bails out the bunny ear industry.

Re:Washington comes together...

[geekoid]

Playboy is in trouble? Better renew my subscription~

In other news...

[RockMFR]

Trials for Gitmo prisoners delayed until they are no longer a threat to the United States.

Paying back the national debt delayed until someone can force us to do so.

Fixing social security delayed until Baby Boomers die.

Puppy for Obama children delayed until after the next election.

Re:Deja vu

[Curunir_wolf]

The final date will be December 21, 2012 [amazon.com].

Democrats have nothing better to do

[Anonymous Coward]

They know that they have no clue about how to fix the economy, so they do this instead.

So vote for Democrats,
They are really swell;
They'll screw up the country,
And tax us to hell!
But you knew all that
When you voted for them.
It's because you hated Bush!

They should just do it like a Band-Aid

[marshalium]

One motion! Right off!

Re:Democrats have nothing better to do

[Zak3056]

So vote for Democrats,
They are really swell;
They'll screw up the country,
And tax us to hell!
But you knew all that
When you voted for them.
It's because you hated Bush

Burma-Shave!

Re:Deja vu

[ColdWetDog]

This legislation is just a waste of time and money.

And nothing of value was lost...

Re:Deja vu

[diggsIt]

In June, there won't be ice on my roof. It wasn't very smart to schedule this in February. Wait until the stories of people falling off their roof while trying to mount a better antenna, start coming in.

Re:Deja vu

[commodore64_love]

If the government was a corporation, they'd quickly go bankrupt through ineptitude. They provide even worse customer service than Comcast.

Re:Washington comes together...

[Anonymous Coward]

Needed a little help for the conception huh? :)

Re:Deja vu

[Ogman]

"The politicians love to screw us." Sounds like Dad is thinking straighter than most of us.

Re:Confusion

[commodore64_love]

No.

The Republicans wanted to PROVIDE MORE FUNDS to restart the coupon program. I thought that was clear in my previous statement ("handing-out more coupons"), but maybe I over-estimated some of my readers intelligence.