The transition from analog to digital television transmission will end in april 7 2009

RF Update October 21, 2005#: "April 7, 2009, as the hard date for completion the transition from analog to digital television transmission.
The committee´s reconciliation bill called the Digital Transition and Public Safety Act of 2005 also set Jan. 28, 2008, as the start date for auctioning off spectrum recovered from television broadcasters. The Congressional Budget Office estimates the spectrum auction will raise $10 billion.
The bill allocates $3 billion from the auction proceeds to fund a digital-to-analog converter box subsidy program. Ted Stevens (R-AK) who chairs the committee and offered the bill with co-chairman Daniel Inouye (D-HI), told participants at the Free Enterprise Fund Symposium in Washington, DC, that the converter box program will provide for a $10 consumer co-pay for device that costs about $50. "