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If you're looking to upgrade your TV before the Super Bowl, keep in mind how you access Sunday's game will matter.

If you're looking to upgrade your TV before the Super Bowl, keep in mind how you access Sunday's game will matter.

If you're looking to upgrade your TV before the Super Bowl, keep in mind how you access Sunday's game will matter.

FAST channels have brought back old-school TV channel guides---and plenty of advertising. But the shows are free and incredibly varied. Media execs are...

Nolte: Cord-Cutting Hit Record Highs in 2020 23 Feb 2021 More people cut the cable-satellite TV cord than ever before in 2020, which is pretty remarkable when you consider how the coronavirus kept everyone at home for most of the year. There are now two types of cable TV. The original is what most of us know as cable TV, where the programming comes in via an actual cable. For the sake of this study, this is called a “Multichannel Video Programming Distributor” or MVPD (Comcast, DirecTV, et...

Auxiliary Facilities  In 2015, the FCC issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking proposing to eliminate outdated rules in order to promote the conversion of analog remote pickup facilities to digital. The NPRM is available here. The pleading cycle in this proceeding closed in 2015. CALM Act/Loud Commercials In 2011, Congress enacted the CALM Act with the aim of ending loud commercials on TV, and the FCC’s rules implementing the CALM Act went into effect in 2012. To comply, TV stations must us...