1996 (38)
Robert K. Graves, representing the Digital HDTV Grand Alliance and chairing the Advanced Television Systems Committee, testified before the House Commerce Subc…
NTIA Assistant Secretary Larry Irving testified before the Senate Budget Committee in March 1996, outlining the Administration's proposal to loan existing broa…
Warren P. Williamson III of WKBN-TV testified before the House Telecommunications Subcommittee in March 1996, arguing that a successful ATV transition requires…
Robert K. Graves, representing the Digital HDTV Grand Alliance and ATSC, testified before the House Commerce Subcommittee on Telecommunications and Finance in …
The FCC granted the nation's first experimental HDTV license to WRAL-TV Channel 5 in Raleigh, NC on June 19, 1996, with the new station designated WRAL-HD oper…
With the FCC HDTV standard set in December 1996, Dale Cripps examines the massive commercial and cultural transition required to move American consumers from N…
MSTV and CEMA jointly announced the formation of the Model HDTV Station Project, Inc. in April 1996, selecting Washington D.C. as the location for the first fu…
Former FCC Advisory Committee Chairman Richard Wiley traces the United States' transformation from a non-player in advanced television technology to a potentia…
In a June 1996 letter signed by Newt Gingrich, Trent Lott, and senior Commerce Committee leaders, Congress urged FCC Chairman Reed Hundt to finalize digital br…
Dale Cripps argues that cost-driven compromises in the DTV transition risk alienating consumers and dooming the shift to digital. He proposes a shared-risk, sa…
Publisher Dale Cripps argues that HDTV's commercialization has stalled due to fragmented standards, absent economic incentives for broadcasters, and a lack of …
In a 1996 interview with HDTV Newsletter editor Dale Cripps, FCC Chairman Reed Hundt outlined his market-oriented approach to the emerging DTV transmission sta…
The Advanced Television Systems Committee welcomed a November 1996 agreement among broadcast, consumer electronics, and computing industries urging the FCC to …
The Model HDTV Station Project selected NBC-owned WRC-TV in Washington, D.C. as the host station for the industry's first operational HDTV broadcast facility, …
In November 1996, FCC Chairman Reed Hundt had yet to act on the ATSC DTV standard submitted months earlier, as broadcasters and computer companies clashed over…
A 1996 Yankelovich Partners survey of 1,000 Americans found that 52 percent of consumers without Internet access would prefer to browse online via television r…
FCC Fifth Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on ATSC DTV Standard Adoption (MM Docket No. 87-268)
The FCC released its Fifth Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking in May 1996, formally considering adoption of the ATSC digital television broadcast standard a…
CBS Senior Vice President of Technology Dr. J.A. Flaherty traces the origins of modern HDTV from NHK's 1970 research through the formation of the FCC's Advisor…
Dale Cripps examines the competing interests of broadcasters, manufacturers, and consumers in the HDTV transition, arguing that SDTV alone may not compel consu…
Dale Cripps argues that HDTV has survived 12 years of naysayers, industry dampening, and political obstruction to finally reach its commercial starting blocks.…
Fisher Broadcasting VP Don Wilkinson confirms plans to launch HDTV on KOMO-TV and KATU in Seattle and Portland as quickly as possible, prioritizing free over-t…
Capitol Broadcasting Co. filed with the FCC for an experimental HDTV license for WRAL-HD on Channel 32 in Raleigh, NC, making it the first television station i…
A broad coalition of Hollywood directors, technology companies, and consumer groups called on broadcasters to revise the Grand Alliance digital television prop…
The Consumer Electronics Manufacturers Association joined broadcasters, union officials, and consumer advocates in calling on the FCC to adopt the digital HDTV…
This document argues that the FCC must accept the ATSC digital television standard to preserve free over-the-air broadcasting and enable the massive investment…
This 1996 editorial defends the ACATS-derived DTV standard against computer industry proposals to strip out high-definition widescreen elements in favor of a r…
Tribune Broadcasting Company has contracted Harris Corporation to provide digital and analog television transmitters for its owned stations covering roughly on…
Fisher Broadcasting's KOMO TV filed with the FCC for an experimental high-definition digital television license, becoming the first station west of the Mississ…
The Clinton administration, through Commerce Department official Larry Irving, urged the FCC to adopt only essential elements of the digital TV standard rather…
Hitachi Ltd. received U.S. Patent 5572264 in November 1996 for an HDTV signal receiver using a triple-conversion double super-heterodyne architecture with QAM …
Scala Inc. Partners with General Instrument to Power 4DTV Satellite Receiver GUI and Playback Engine
Scala Inc. and General Instrument announced a joint agreement embedding Scala's BackBone software, Human Touch GUI, and Multimedia Operating System into GI's 4…
Zenith Electronics Corporation received U.S. Patent 5574509 for an antenna adjustment system that displays real-time signal quality on-screen, allowing viewers…
CableLabs President Richard Green argues that the cable industry is better positioned than broadcasters to launch HDTV, citing lower infrastructure costs, exis…
CableLabs President Dr. Richard Green discusses the cable industry's push toward high-speed internet access at ethernet rates of 10 Mb/s, describing it as the …
Dale Cripps argues that HDTV cannot be forced into existence by FCC mandate alone, as broadcasters lack financial incentive and no major communications company…
The FCC proposed requiring U.S. terrestrial broadcasters to adopt the ATSC DTV Standard, the culmination of over eight years of work by ACATS, the Grand Allian…
The Computer Industry Coalition on Advanced Television Service (CICATS) proposed that the FCC adopt ACATS low-level standards for modulation, error correction,…
WRAL-HD, the CBS affiliate in Raleigh, North Carolina owned by Capitol Broadcasting Co., became the nation's first experimental HDTV station to broadcast on Ju…