Martin Favors Renewable DTV Coupons

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin said that, as a consumer-friendly policy, he would favor allowing viewers to reapply for coupons good for $40 toward the purchase of a DTV-to-analog converter box. The boxes will be required for analog-only TV sets to continue to receive a DTV signal after the transition to digital in February 2009. But he deferred to the National Telecommunications & Information Administration on whether it has the authority to do that absent Congress. NTIA acting head Meredith Attwell Baker has said that the agency can make that change, but is waiting for more data on how many coupons are being redeemed. The first coupons mailed out by NTIA in mid-February are beginning to expire.
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