While consumers have been slow to move to digital TV, that hasn’t deterred Congress from trying to goose the transition process. That process includes snatching back spectrum currently used to broadcast over-the-air analog TV channels — a process that, under current law, is supposed to occur by 2007 — but only if 85 percent of the households in
America can receive digital TV signals. Meeting that 2007 deadline isn’t likely to happen, so yesterday the a Senate committee approved a measure to reclaim a portion of the broadcast spectrum in 2008.
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Digital TV Transition Bill Wins Committee Approval
Posted by: John P. Mello Jr. September 23, 2004 07:55 AMWhile consumers have been slow to move to digital TV, that hasn’t deterred Congress from trying to goose the transition process. That process includes snatching back spectrum currently used to broadcast over-the-air analog TV channels — a process that, under current law, is supposed to occur by 2007 — but only if 85 percent of the households in
America can receive digital TV signals. Meeting that 2007 deadline isn’t likely to happen, so yesterday the a Senate committee approved a measure to reclaim a portion of the broadcast spectrum in 2008.