Bill Provides $65M for DTV Transition

As expected, the House Energy & Commerce Committee passed a bill that would free up some more money for the digital-TV transition. The bill makes $65 million available Feb. 17, 2009, to help low-power stations make the transition to digital. The bill, which already passed the Senate, will also allow some of the $10 million allocated to help translator stations, which help broadcast full-power stations to reach remote areas, for DTV education, since that program has more than enough money to pay the $1,000 per translator that it will take to make the conversion. The way the DTV-transition bill had been written, low-power stations would not get the money until October 2010, a year-and-a-half after full-power stations make the DTV switch.
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