Senate Tackles Digital TV This Week
Elbow room will be scarce in Washington, D.C., this week as lobbyists descend on the Capitol where the Senate Commerce Committee is expected to begin considering a bill on Wednesday that will set the basic rules for the return of spectrum freed up by the switch from analog to digital television transmission.
The committee is expected to begin the long-awaited process of determining who gets what when the analog-to-digital transition occurs on April 7, 2009. When broadcast television stations complete the transition, it will free up wireless spectrum because digital transmission is more efficient in its use of precious spectrum.
Most of the newly available spectrum will be auctioned to commercial interests. The auction is scheduled to begin on January 28, 2008. Draft legislation calls for the auction to raise at least $4.81 billion, but the Congressional Budget Office estimates the auction could raise as much as $10 billion.
posted by Fergie @ 10/17/2005 08:46:00 AM
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