[BC] Subsidy For Digital TV?

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Paul Christensen" <attorney at broadcast.net>
To: "Broadcast Radio Mailing List" <broadcast at radiolists.net>
Sent: Friday, October 21, 2005 7:12 AM
Subject: Re: [BC] Subsidy For Digital TV?



> According to one proposal, the funding for the subsidy is derived by 
> future auctioned license fees from the relinquished spectrum.   In other 
> words, Congress is betting that the future value of spectrum income 
> greatly exceeds the present value of converter purchases.

You mean they're not just going to give away the spectrum to the companies 
that come up with
the best corporate junkets for congress?

chuck