cbenham@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > It is going to be an amazing day, that March 7, 2009, and I doubt the NAB, > the FCC, Congress and all the TV networks and stations are going to ready for > what they will be unleashing. > I can hardly wait. > I think you are exactly right ... but I also think it will never happen. I suspect that it would not be a big deal if the date were March 7, 2024. The right way to do this is to stagger the turnoff by money: there would be an increasing license fee, year after year, based on the total population inside the coverage area, for each station. For NYC, say, it would reach $100,000,000 per station per year by say 2019. Doug McDonald ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can UNSUBSCRIBE from the OpenDTV list in two ways: - Using the UNSUBSCRIBE command in your user configuration settings at FreeLists.org - By sending a message to: opendtv-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line.