Senators Cave to NAB

The long-discussed and often-postponed changeover from analog television broadcasting to a purely digital format is still somewhere over the rainbow, thanks to a September 23 vote by the Senate Commerce Committee (SCC). ¶ Committee members voted down a proposal by Committee Chairman John McCain that would have required broadcasters to return their analog licenses by 2009. McCain's plan would have transferred use of much of the freed spectrum to public safety and emergency communications use, very much in keeping with a current Federal Communications Commission (FCC) proposal to end analog TV broadcasting by December 31, 2008. ... Stereophile Ultimate AV link