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RabbitEars is a website dedicated to providing information on over-the-air digital television in the United States, its territories and protectorates, and border areas of Canada and Mexico. Aside from merely listing network affiliations and technical data, notations of stations carrying Descriptive Video Service, TVGOS, UpdateTV, Sezmi, Mobile DTV, and MediaFLO are also now covered on the site. RabbitEars also maintains a spreadsheet of current television stations. RabbitEars.Info has been cited by The New York Times,〔 The Washington Post,〔〔〔 the Los Angeles Times,〔 the Columbus Dispatch,〔〔 and the Gotham Gazette〔 for news stories, the Electric Pi Journal,〔 CEOutlook,〔 Sony's eSupport,〔 and Crutchfield〔 websites for additional technical information, and WCCB-TV,〔 WOLO-TV,〔 and WGHP〔 television stations in relation to the digital television transition. == History of RabbitEars == RabbitEars was developed as a replacement for 100000watts.com, which was a website started around 1998 by Chip Kelley. 100000watts started as a listing of every TV station in the US and grew in scope to eventually included AM and FM radio information as well. However, all information on that site, including technical data from the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC), was hand-entered, and ultimately Kelley no longer had the time to dedicate to the website. Planning to shut the site down, Clear Channel/M Street Publications stepped in and purchased it in late 2002,〔 after which it became subscription-only. It was at that time that Trip Ericson decided to develop a replacement.〔 After the digital television transition started in 2008, RabbitEars began tracking digital subchannels, Digital Transition Reports, and Analog Termination Requests made to the FCC. These pages were attached to an incomplete design that Ericson had begun to implement in 2004, but that had never been finished due to lack of coding knowledge. As the transition related pages in particular received attention, corrections were sent to add to and correct the incomplete data that was kept on the rest of the site, and a notice was posted asking for additional assistance. On , Bruce Myers joined the effort by creating an updated website design, and on RabbitEars launched in its current form.〔 Because of these circumstances, while the web address was registered in 2004, the 2008 date is considered to be the beginning of the organization. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「RabbitEars」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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