[SBE] Proposed Analog Shutoff Extention

[chscherer at everestkc.net]

I welcome a healthy discussion. Placing blame for whatever at this point is happening is not relevant, nor is it needed. Let's stick to the current facts, please.

If you want to talk about the politics behind it, go to SBE-chat, please.
info: http://www.sbe.org/Roundtable.php

Chriss

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Whoia there buckaroo.  The Push for DTV revenue was very much a Clinton/Gore idea.  They very nicely made the requirements for it occur during the Bush admin.  The dates and the money however were decided mostly by Gore.  A relative of mine was there for the whole debate, including Gore's first push, which was to tax receivers.
 
You can blame lots of things perhaps on Bush, but this fiasco was purely made by liberals and Democrats.

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> Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 10:52:45 -0500

> From: br at telcen.com

> To: barryt at sbe.org; sbe at sbe.org

> Subject: Re: [SBE] Proposed Analog Shutoff Extention

> 

> If you all remember the original legislation, the cutoff could be 

> deferred until it was determined that 85 percent of households in a 

> given market were ready to receive DTV. It was the Bush administration, 

> all hot to auction off spectrum that pushed for and got the mandatory 

> cutoff date of February 17, 2009. I see nothing wrong in postponing the 

> the cut over, as long as stations who want to are allowed to shut down 

> their NTSC transmissions.