[ EEPI-Discuss ] Re: The Digital TV Fiasco

["Craig A. Finseth" <fin@finseth.com>]

   Date: Thu, 09 Jun 2005 20:30:49 -0700
   From: Dan Krimm <djkrimbo@earthlink.net>
	...
   And then, there are proposals for means-tested D-A converters to be made
   available to remaining analog-only TV households, which I also support (if
   the estimates can be believed, auctioning off the old analog spectrum
   should provide far more than required for such subsidization).
	...

I may have this wrong, but it is my understanding that the estimated
revenues from the analog spectrum have already been incorporated into
the current federal budget projections.

So, there isn't any money there.

Craig

   [ Craig, you are correct.  Back as far as the 1997 Budget Resolution,
     Congress assumed many billions of dollars of revenue from spectrum
     auctions related to the retirement of the analog TV spectrum.  They
     want to get their hands on that money -- desperately.  And if anyone
     seriously thinks that there's going to be significant money 
     available for the government to buy people TV conversion boxes, in a
     time when so many people in this country don't even have basics like 
     reasonable and affordable health care, well, I've got a bridge in 
     Brooklyn up for sale ... 

        -- Lauren Weinstein (EEPI-Discuss Moderator) ]

                                                      

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