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102TV Stations Wants
2008 as the Deadling for TV Digital Switching -- the 100th
year of Wireless Telephone Broadcasting
Patent.
• • WASHINGTON
-- Some DIGITAL spectrum experts believe the latest
disclosures give station owners sufficient ammunition to
delay the transition, -- "possibly to 2008 -- the 100th
anniversary of the Wireless Telephone Patent and Radio as
we know it today", says Scott Stubblefield, go to
NBS100.com, and you'll see what we're talking about.
• •
"Broadcasters are going to grab on to any reason to push
back the deadline further," said Thomas W. Hazlett, a
telecommunications analyst for the Manhattan Institute, a
New York-based think tank.
• • He expressed pessimism that Congress
would stick with a December 2006 transition date. "It's
problematic," he said, "if Congress just focuses on the
revenue question" raised by the Congressional Budget
Office.
• • A delay is bitterly opposed by Intel
Corp., Cisco Systems Inc. and other companies that hope to
use the analog TV spectrum to offer wireless services such
as high-speed Internet access.
• • "Congress never intended to maximize
auction revenue," said Intel's Washington lobbyist Peter K.
Pitsch. "The goal should be to make airwaves available so
that they can be used efficiently for consumers and the
larger society." Congress is under increasing pressure to
delay a 2006 deadline for a nationwide transition to digital
TV.
• • One reason is electronics makers'
argument that they cannot speed production of digital sets.
• • This week, the Arlington, Va.-based
Consumer Electronics Assn. told the Federal Communications
Commission that March 2006 was the earliest date by which TV
manufacturers could comply with agency rules stipulating
that larger TVs be capable of digital reception, according
to filings at the agency.
• • Also, the Congressional Budget Office
is warning that a planned government auction of $18 billion
in airwaves may not bring as much interest as previously
thought.
• • The office has told the staff of
Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Ted Stevens (R-Alaska)
that buyers might opt to wait for the huge chunk of TV
airwaves to hit the market after stations go
digital.
• • Under current government rules, TV
broadcasters must shut off their analog signals starting
Dec. 31, 2006, in markets where 85% of households have sets
capable of receiving a digital TV
channel.
• • Those analog airwaves would then be
returned to the government for auction to other
communications providers such as cellphone
operators.
• • Although about 90% of the nation's
1,700 TV stations now transmit digital signals, station
owners have long decried the multimillion-dollar cost of the
transition and fear they will lose millions of viewers
unable to afford the expensive digital TV
sets.
• • Last year retailers sold more than
three times as many analog TV sets (22 million) as digital
(7 million), according to the Consumer Electronics
Assn.
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