Notes From the Digital Switchover
Our writer in Wilmington, N.C., continues his examination of the digital TV switchover being tested there.
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It Only Gets Darker After the Lights Go Down
Analysis: In movies, popular books and TV, the end of the world makes for an unsettling season.
Pulling the Plug on TV as We Know It
Wilmington, N.C., is inundated in information as a test case for having all TV broadcasts in digital.
Digital Television Guinea Pig Spotted
The digital television transition is set for February 2009, but one local market is jumping the gun next…
Tribes of the 21st Century
An essay collection makes the case that, in the digital age, community is more a matter of ideas than of geography. Even if the idea is a Nigerian e-mail scam.
Death by Pink Slip
A film on a health care system that impoverishes and kills people, just because they lose their jobs.
Phelps Dominates Olympics News Coverage
There are athletes not named Michael Phelps competing at the Beijing Olympics, but you may not know it…
‘One Dream’ Meets ‘I Have a Dream’
American documentary makers bring Martin Luther King to Beijing — and back.
Patent Office Asks Kids For Ideas
You don’t see a lot of TV ads from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office but you will.…
Men Dominate Olympics TV Coverage
A new analysis of NBC’s prime-time Olympics coverage shows male athletes receive more air time than women, but…