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CU asks to delay the February 17 transition after federal coupon program runs out of money
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Obama Team Asks Congress to Postpone Digital TV Switch
pressroom.consumerreports.org - 1/7/2009
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WASHINGTON, D.C. — Consumers Union, the nonprofit publisher
of Consumer Reports magazine, today said Congress should consider...
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Feb. 17 switch to digital-only television, citing concerns about consumer readiness for the transition. "We have ...
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Obama Pushes for Digital-TV Delay
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Delaying DTV Could Mean Longer Wait for LTE [GigaOM]
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... and could not respond to all the requests for coupons. Consumer’s Union, the organization that publishes Consumer Reports, issued a statment saying, “The federal government is getting $19 billion from selling the analog TV spectrum, while people with analog TVs have to go out and spend their own money for a converter box.” It asked Congress to wait. ...
Obama Calls for a Delay to the Digital Switch
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... 1 million people are on a waiting list for coupons and that number is expected to hit 5 million by early February. Approximately 6.8 percent of homes are not ready to go digital, according to a poll by Nielsen Media Research. That translates into 7.8 million households that will lose their primary source of news and entertainment when analog transmissions cease. Obama joins a growing list of those who want to put the brakes on the end of analog transmissions. Earlier this week, the Consumers Union , publisher of Consumer Reports, called on Congress to delay the switch after ...
Is a DTV Delay a Bailout for Procrastinators?
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... The Consumer’s Union (which publishes Consumer Reports) says that those affected would be rural, low-income and the elderly, and with the DTV converter coupon program out of money, these folks would be cut off from news and emergency broadcasts. ...
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