House Sets DTV Converter-Box Hearing

The House Government Reform and Oversight Committee will hold a hearing this week looking into the National Telecommunications and Information Administration's handling of the digital-TV-to-analog converter-box-coupon program, as well as concerns about getting DTV-transition information to minority communities. The hearing -- which will be in the Subcommittee on Government Management, Organization and Procurement -- will be held July 18 at a Brooklyn community center in the district of House Energy & Commerce Committee member and subcommittee chair Edolphus Towns (D-NY), who called for the hearing.