John Eggerton writes:
... Commercial and noncommercial broadcasters and tech companies Thursday wrote the National Telecommunications & Information Administration advocating an Internet voucher system for DTV-to-analog converters, which will insure their analog-only viewers don't lose their TV signals. ¶ NTIA is administering a program to supply those boxes to millions--estimates vary--so that analog-only households can still receive a signal when the country switches to all-digital broadcast TV in February 2009. NTIA has also been given $5 million for a consumer awareness campaign. NTIA is preparing a notice of proposed rulemaking outlining the DTV transition program and campaign. ...
Link: Broadcasting & Cable. Disclosure: I'm on the Ass'n of Public Television Stations board. --Dennis
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