US Senate panel sets April 2009 digital TV move
Posted on: Thursday, 20 October 2005, 14:55 CDT
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate Commerce Committee on Thursday approved a deadline of April 7, 2009, for television stations to broadcast only higher-quality digital signals.
The legislation would require television stations to end their analog broadcasts and return those airwaves to the government, so some of them can be sold for commercial wireless services, a sale expected to bring in $10 billion or more.
The measure also sets aside $3 billion to subsidize some of the costs of Americans buying devices that would convert digital signals so that existing analog television sets could still work.
Source: REUTERS
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