Kohl Bill Would Target DTV Outreach to Senior Citizens

摘要

Sen. Herb Kohl (D., Wis.), chairman of the Senate Special Committee on Aging, has introduced legislation to ensure that senior citizens are educated about the 2009 digital TV transition. The measure would establish a federal interagency task force led by the FCC to coordinate outreach, create a grant program to assist nonprofit agencies and state and local government education efforts, impose industry mandates, including the airing of public service announcements by broadcasters, and force some changes in the digital-to-analog converter box coupon program. rn"This legislation will help safeguard seniors and their families by facilitating a number of common sense solutions," Sen. Kohl said in announcing the bill on the Senate floor. "Senior citizens deserve to receive targeted outreach and complete information about the upcoming transition. They do not deserve to be the brunt of fraudulent schemes or to be left in the dark after February 17, 2009."