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The documents posted on this site are XML renditions of published Federal Register, and does not replace the official print version or the official It is not an official legal edition of the Federal A letter signed by several Republican members of the House said delaying the transition would mean “postponing the vast public-safety improvements that are finally within our grasp,” and Secretary of Commerce Carlos Gutierrez said the Bush administration supports new funding so the NTIA, a commerce department agency, can resume distribution of the coupons.This site displays a prototype of a “Web 2.0” version of the dailyįederal Register. “With coupons unavailable, support and education insufficient and the most vulnerable Americans exposed, I urge you to consider a change to the legislatively mandated analog cutoff date.”Īlthough Democratic members of the House and Senate have started work on bills that would extend the deadline, there has been some resistance to the proposal. 17 cutoff date for analog signals should be reconsidered and extended,” John Podesta, co-chairman of the Obama transition team, wrote in a letter to congressional officials. Shortly after the NTIA announced that its money had run dry, President-elect Obama asked Congress to reopen the funding stream and delay the changeover date, because people with analog television sets won’t get a signal after the switch.

The agency estimated that it had nearly 1 million names on the waiting list as of Jan. The boxes would allow someone with an older television who receives programs over the air using an antenna to receive the digital transmissions after the changeover. 17 for the transition and charged the National Telecommunications and Information Administration with designing specifications for digital converter boxes and building a program for their distribution.

THE BACKGROUNDIn 2005, Congress adopted the Digital Transition and Public Safety Act, which required all full-power television stations to switch from analog broadcasts to digital broadcasts, a change that will give emergency responders more analog frequencies to improve communications. Here’s a look at the issues, the background and what could happen next. While the incoming president and Congress debate what should be done to fix the problem, the deadline - Feb.

We’re about a month from the deadline for the federally mandated switch to all-digital broadcasts, and there’s a hitch in the program designed to get converter boxes into the hands of those who still watch over-the-air TV: The discount coupons are gone.