Kontan.

So we have (mostly) made the switch…analog TV signals are no more and the nation is now enjoying digital broadcasts.  Yet, there is still a portion of the population that did not jump on board.  How some 2+ million people were not ready I do not know, but it is so.  What I really do not know is why an already strapped government steps in to fund the entertainment of citizens. 

About a third of Friday’s calls to the FCC were still about federal coupons to pay for digital converter boxes, an indication that at least 100,000 people still didn’t have the right equipment to receive digital signals.

Really?  Federal coupons?  The government has not enough issues to worry about without funding the digi switch?  It just seems that bank failures, auto bankruptcies, high unemployment, and budget woes the government has bigger things to deal with.  Switch to digital, great.  It is not the place of government to fund the entertainment of its citizens.  If I am wrong…I read that Six Flags filed chapter 11, maybe the government should step in there too.