Hello from sunny Las Vegas. We’re attending the National Association of Broadcasters show here. It’s a giant trade show with thousands of attendees from hundreds of countries. It’s where radio and television folk assemble to see what’s new in equipment and hear new ideas and technical paper presentations. For emerging broadcast technology this is where it’s at.

We attended the CBS engineering meeting yesterday morning and on the panel were some lawyers from the FCC. To make a long story short, they emphatically made the point that there is no turning back from the analog shutdown date. There have been rumors claiming otherwise but the FCC and CBS kept saying it: it WILL happen in February of next year. I also spoke privately to FCC representatives at the show and they said the same thing.

Are you prepared? More information here: http://www.dtv.gov/ .