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House Passed a Compromise DTV Hard Date Bill

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House Passed a Compromise DTV Hard Date Bill

Dale Mon Dec 19, 2005 12:15 pm

ALSEA 12/19/2009 - The House passed a compromise DTV hard date shut off bill this morning as part of the omnibus budget reconciliation package.

The new bill sets the date for ending all analog television services as Feb. 17, 2009 (the Senate Commerce Committee had set April 7, 2009, the House Commerce Committee Dec. 31, 2008).

January 28, 2008 is the new date set for the auctioning of the analog spectrum.

A paltry $5 million was set aside for a consumer awareness campaign. We can all have a good laugh about that! New York gets $30 million to help terrestrial broadcasters recover from the World Trade Center towers that were lost in the 9/11 attack.

The much anticipated subsidy for DTV-to-analog converter boxes is

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