[SBE] DTV Converters Funding

[Barry Thomas]

Don't know if everyone saw this but it was posted on TV Newsday on 3/6 courtesy of the Akron Beacon Journal. 


 Barry Thomas, CPBE CBNT
President, Society of Broadcast Engineers
barryt at sbe.org



March 6, 2009 -  NEW YORK -- The agency that mails out coupons for digital TV converter
boxes has received fresh funding from the economic stimulus program. 
It expects to eliminate its coupon wait list in two and a half weeks.
 
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The fund that pays for the
$40 coupons reached its spending limit in early January. The National
Telecommunications and Information Administration was still able to
mail out coupons, but only as old ones expired. It's accumulated a wait
list of 2.3 million households.The NTIA also expects to
change its rules so that people who received coupons before but let
them expire can now apply for new ones. 

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