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Industry: Email Alert RSS FeedPBS switch to DTV may get pushed back.(digital TV)(Brief Article)
Broadcasting & Cable, April, 1998 by Albiniak, Paige
Public broadcasting may have a hard time getting federal money for its transition to digital, and a Congressional committee may ask the FCC to delay the transition. "It's very clear that the [FCC] deadlines are too tight for the technology and the money involved, and the FCC is going to have to back them off." That was the word from Rep.
John Edward Porter (R-Ill.), chairman of a House appropriations subcommittee, during a hearing last week on funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Porter suggested that public broadcasting's transition to digital be delayed for at least two years because CPB's money is appropriated by Congress two years ahead of time. Granting CPB $50 million in fiscal 1999 to start the transition would take money away from...
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