{"id":1203,"date":"2007-09-27T01:01:51","date_gmt":"2007-09-26T18:01:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/?p=1203"},"modified":"2007-09-27T01:01:51","modified_gmt":"2007-09-26T18:01:51","slug":"what-does-the-digital-tv-switch-actually-mean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/watching\/what-does-the-digital-tv-switch-actually-mean\/","title":{"rendered":"What does the digital-TV switch actually mean?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>aq WASHINGTON&#8211;If there&#8217;s one message the government wants you to know about analog televisions going dark in early 2009, it&#8217;s this: don&#8217;t panic.<\/p>\n<p>Federal officials say American households will have plenty of time to make sure their gadgets are ready for the congressionally mandated switch to all-digital broadcasts after February 17, 2009.<\/p>\n<p>The key is knowing what your options are. As the U.S. Department of Commerce and the Federal Communications Commission stage back-to-back public events here this week, CNET News.com has compiled a list of questions and answers designed to ward off a DTV D-Day.<\/p>\n<p>For more info <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.com\/FAQ-What-does-the-digital-TV-switch-actually-mean\/2100-1041_3-6210037.html?tag=txt.alert.hed\">click here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>aq WASHINGTON&#8211;If there&#8217;s one message the government wants you to know about analog televisions going dark in early 2009, it&#8217;s this: don&#8217;t panic. Federal officials say American households will have plenty of time to make sure their gadgets are ready for the congressionally mandated switch to all-digital broadcasts after February 17, 2009. The key is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-watching"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1203\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}