1 Landis Duffett Our Digital Future: Nostalgia, Broadcast Television, and the Televisual Sublime By order of the Federal Communications Commission, on June 12, 2009 all analog transmissions of television in the United States ceased. While network affiliates continue to broadcast their programming free of charge, the future of broadcast television will be digital. Those who own analog TV sets will have to acquire a digital-converter box in order to receive a signal. Of course, analog broadcast television has been an inert technology for almost three decades now anyway. Already in the 1980s, awe
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