[opendtv] Re: DTV Delay Bill Introduced
- From: Craig Birkmaier <craig@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2009 09:47:07 -0500
At 6:53 PM -0800 1/17/09, John Willkie wrote:
The only place where there was a three-year extension of the digital
transition was in the fantasy-land in which you live, Bob.
As usual, John's uncontrollable urge to communicate using insults, is
both inappropriate and WRONG.
The 1996 Telecommunications Act gave the authority to set the
deadline to the FCC, which in turn set the original deadline at the
end of 1996. The broadcasters were none too happy about this and
immediately got their friends in Congress to make the 2006 deadline
meaningless:
The Balanced Budget Act of 1997 was passed about six months after
the FCC set the 2006 deadline. According to
http://govinfo.library.unt.edu/piac/octmtg/tatalk.htm
The Balanced Budget Act specified that no analog broadcast license
may be renewed beyond December 31, 2006. (143 Cong. Rec. H6032-H6033,
adding new section 309(j)(14)(A) to the Communications Act). At the
same time, Congress directed the FCC to extend that deadline in any
television market:
if any ABC, NBC, CBS, or Fox affiliate in that market is not
broadcasting a DTV signal, assuming that the FCC finds that the
station has exercised "due diligence" in trying to deploy DTV;
if digital-to-analog converter technology is not generally available
in the market; or
if 15 percent or more of the households in the market do not
subscribe to a multichannel provider (e.g., cable, MMDS, DBS) that
retransmits at least one digital programming service from each DTV
station in that market and those households do not have a digital
television set or digital-to-analog converter.
So in reality-land John, there was no real DTV deadline between the
fall of 1997 and January of 2006, when Congress passed legislation
establishing the February 17, 2009 deadline, which added 3 years and
48 days to the deadline originally established by the FCC.
You can take the Tijuana Taxi back to your fantasy land now John.
Regards
Craig
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