{"id":1873,"date":"2005-10-23T08:54:13","date_gmt":"2005-10-23T08:54:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=1873"},"modified":"2005-10-23T08:54:13","modified_gmt":"2005-10-23T08:54:13","slug":"our_tax_dollars_3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=1873","title":{"rendered":"Our Tax Dollars at Work: Congress&#8217;s $3B TV Subsidy!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2005\/10\/20\/AR2005102001979.html\">Jennifer Kerr<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Lawmakers want to spend $3 billion to make sure millions of Americans won&#8217;t wake up to blank TV screens when the country makes the switch to all-digital broadcasts.<\/p>\n<p>The subsidy was approved Thursday by the <a href=\"http:\/\/commerce.senate.gov\/about\/membership.html\">Senate Commerce Committee<\/a> as part of legislation that would set April 7, 2009, as the firm date for television broadcasters to end their traditional analog transmissions and send their broadcasts via digital signals.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Meanwhile, we lag behind the world in deploying the future, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/archives\/cat_broadband.php\">broadband internet<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jennifer Kerr: Lawmakers want to spend $3 billion to make sure millions of Americans won&#8217;t wake up to blank TV screens when the country makes the switch to all-digital broadcasts. The subsidy was approved Thursday by the Senate Commerce Committee as part of legislation that would set April 7, 2009, as the firm date for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1873"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1873\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}