Responding to pressure from federal regulators, cable TV operators announced plans this month to let customers do something most have never been able to: buy a cable converter box. Of course, most ...

Broadcasters across the country will finally kill their analog television signals on June 12 and broadcast only in digital. For a little more than a year, local television stations have been educating ...

Since taking office in 2013, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler has battled seemingly every company his agency regulates as he has pushed for rules to protect the open Internet and ...

Is a cable-converter box a machine? For Henrico County, that’s the $850,000 question. The county is in a legal battle with Verizon Online LLC over the taxability of the TV-top boxes that the company ...

Lawyers in Nevada and at least four other states have filed lawsuits against Cox Communications in recent weeks, accusing the company of antitrust violations for allegedly requiring customers to rent ...

Many of the cable boxes that Bay Staters pay a monthly fee to rent or lease from their cable provider could soon be newly subjected to the state’s 6.25% sales tax, under a proposal the Department of ...

Bay State channel-surfers who buy, rent or lease a cable box from their television provider could soon see a change on their bills: state tax collectors confirmed last week that those transactions are ...