Inside Tv & Radio Obama Urges Congress to Delay Digital Transition Amid Coupon Shortage

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel › January 09, 2009

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There's now serious pressure from the incoming administration to delay the move to digital TV broadcasting after the federal coupon program for converter boxes was put on hold this week.

Barack Obama's transition team sent a letter to Congress on Thursday asking that the shutdown of analog broadcasting be delayed past the Feb. 17 deadline.

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Inside Tv & Radio Obama Urges Congress to Delay Digital Transition Amid Coupon Shortage

Wrote John Podesta, who heads Obama's transition team: "With coupons unavailable, support and education insufficient, and the most vulnerable Americans exposed, I ur...

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