COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - The nation's top TV regulator is making a swing through Ohio to promote next month's transition to digital television. Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin is scheduled to stop in Cincinnati, Dayton and Columbus on Tuesday.

If you've been waiting to apply for a converter-box coupon to help make sure your TV doesn't go dark next month, you might be out of luck.

The government's billion-dollar program to help people prepare for the transition to digital television has run out of money, potentially leaving millions of viewers without coupons to buy converter boxes they need to keep their analog TV sets working after the switch.

At least one thing is becoming clear about the digital TV transition just a month away.

SES Americom is shutting down its IP-Prime satellite TV service.

DUBLIN, Ireland----Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "The Worldwide Digital Satellite Pay-TV Market, 2008" report to their offering.

First cars, then phones will get the new mim TV system from ICO Communications, which will roll out city by city during 2009. The company promises that this is live TV that really works.

Two kinds of PCTV cards are available in the market. Both allow you to watch satellite TV on computer though the installation varies. One requires you to install the card within your CPU housing, meaning it is connected to your motherboard to utilize its circuit board architecture.

There are already websites online that allow you to watch satellite TV on your personal computers. Of course, there is a variety of tradition television channels as well as some hip entertainment programs like MTV and so on.

Watching satellite TV on PC by the route of satellite TV software is fast catching up in the homes of developed countries especially America, Canada and UK where the TV viewership is generally higher than around the region. There are several benefits to watch satellite TV on PC.