Some Press for More Notice of Transition in TV

Consumer advocates will gather on Capitol Hill this week to lobby for more money to publicize the big change in television next February, when people who have analog TVs will no longer get any picture unless they have cable service or a digital converter box. But would more publicity make any difference to people who steadfastly refuse to make the switch? Washington officials are worried that millions of people will lose access to an important lifeline. “Making the transition to digital is not simply a matter of being able to watch wrestling or ‘American Idol’ or reruns of ‘Friends,’ ” Mark Lloyd of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, a nonprofit advocacy group, said at a Congressional hearing in June. At stake, he said, “is the ability of the nation’s most vulnerable populations to maintain uninterrupted access to their key source of news and information and emergency warnings: free, over-the-air television.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/07/business/media/07digital.html?ref=toda...
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