Digital Television: Future, Past & Present: FCC Action Needed to Ensure Public Interest Has a Future

February 16, 2006 Today, Benton Foundation Chairman Charles Benton sent FCC Chairman Kevin Martin a letter asking him to elevate broadcasters’ public interest obligations on the Commission’s agenda. In three years, when analog TV is finally turned off, so too will broadcasters’ mandate to serve the public interest, convenience, and necessity be left behind unless the Commission acts to extend meaningful obligations to the digital world.