[BC] TV Set/Converter

[Harold Hallikainen]

>From Benton Communications Headlines (http://www.benton.org)

RUSH ON DTV CONVERTER BOX COUPONS: MORE THAN 1 MILLION REQUESTED
[SOURCE: Broadcasting&Cable, AUTHOR: John Eggerton]
More than 500,000 people requested more than 1
million $40 coupons toward the purchase of
digital-to-analog converters in the first 40 or
so hours of the program, according to National
Telecommunications & Information Administration
spokesman Todd Sedmak. The requests were coming
from every state in the union, according to
Sedmak, and almost all were applying for the
maximum two coupons per household. With the NTIA
given enough money by Congress to subsidize a
total of 33.5 million coupons, this means that if
the furious pace were maintained, all of the
coupons could be spoken for almost before the
first ones hit viewers' mailboxes at the end of
February. But once the number exceeds 22.25
million coupons, the NTIA will have to dip into a
second pool of money for the rest and limit them
to only households that do not subscribe to
multichannel-video services like cable or satellite.
http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/CA6516388.html?rssid=193
* Demand Brisk For DTV Converter Coupons
http://www.multichannel.com/article/CA6516427.html?rssid=196


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