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Originally Posted by farkedup
Weren't the airwaves the current NON digital broadcasts occupied AUCTIONED off for billions of dollars? Whats spending millions on something you made BILLIONS off of?
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Yep they auctioned them off. They made $19.6 BILLION. They only expected to make $10 billion. They allocated $1.34 billion of that for the coupon program.
By the way not everybody that gets tv OTA only needs a converter box. Anyone that bought a Tv made since March 2007 has one with a built in tuner. In fact Tvs 27 inches and larger had to have tuners in them since March 2006. And not everyone that needs a conveter box needs a coupon. Many people can afford the $50 the boxes the coupons cover and also many people rather get a converter box that is more feature rich since the boxes the coupons cover are very basic.