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Will FCC Revoke DTV Spectrum?
Home Theater RSS Feed — ... subscription services." But it would also bring in $62 billion from new users. Bear in mind that the feds have just spent $2.15 billion to implement the DTV transition, which reached its climax on June 12, 2009. So what happens now? Will the federal government say to all the broadcasters and viewers who survived the transition: Whoops, we didn't mean it? And will viewers who depend on free over-the-air TV, including HDTV, be happy to take on a monthly cable or satellite bill? NAB responded that the CEA study "ignores the immeasurable public benefit" of DTV, which includes ...

FCC Lusts After TV Industry Spectrum - Hopes to beef up wireless broadband capacity
DSLreports - front page — ... Obviously, broadcasters aren't too thrilled by that idea, and lashed out at the study, complaining that it "ignores the immeasurable public benefit of a vibrant free and local broadcasting system." Transferring all of the TV industry's spectrum is highly unlikely given it would require transferring all TV viewers to subscription cable service after the FCC just spent $2.15 billion on the digital broadcast transition. ...