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Press
Release: Commerce’s TV Converter Box
Coupon Program Now Accepting Requests to Replace
Expired Coupons: NTIA has begun to accept
replacement requests from eligible households whose
coupons expired without being redeemed. Meanwhile,
money allocated to the National Telecommunications
and Information Administration (NTIA) as part of
the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act has
allowed NTIA to clear the digital converter box
coupon waiting list.
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Dated March 24, 2009
Press
Release: NTIA Begins to Clear TV Converter
Box Coupon Request Waiting List: NTIA today
announced that the agency has begun to clear its
waiting list for requests to the TV Converter Box
Coupon Program as a result of additional funds
provided by Congress.
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Updated March 5, 2009
Press
Release: Commerce's NTIA Applauds Congress
for Additional Funding to Eliminate Current TV
Converter Box Coupon Waiting List
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Dated February 19, 2009
Press Release: Commerce’s
NTIA Welcomes Congressional Action on DTV Delay as
Opportunity for More Americans to Prepare for the End
of the Digital TV Transition
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Dated February 5, 2009
Press Release: Commerce
Department Announces New Deputy Assistant Secretary
for Communications and Information To Assist in Leading
Nation’s Switch to Digital Television
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Dated February 4, 2009
Press Release:
Commerce Department Announces Committee to Advise
on Management of Nation’s Airwaves:
Secretary of Commerce Carlos M. Gutierrez today announced
the appointment of a diverse group of representatives
from the private sector for a two-year term to the
Commerce Spectrum Advisory Committee.
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Dated January 16, 2009
Press Release:
Commerce's NTIA Releases Statement Regarding the
TV Converter Box Coupons: "We are working
with Congress and other stakeholders so coupons can
be processed and mailed without delay," said Meredith
Attwell Baker, acting administrator of the National
Telecommunications and Information Administration.
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Posted January 8, 2009
Press
Release: Commerce’s NTIA Announces New
Coupon Applicants Will be Placed on Waiting List
Due to High Demand for TV Converter Box Coupons:
NTIA today announced that starting Sunday, January
4, consumers requesting coupons from the TV Converter
Box Coupon Program are being placed on a waiting
list. Coupons will be mailed on a first-come-first-served
basis, as funds from expired coupons become available,
because the program has reached its $1.34 billion
legal obligation limit, which consists of ordered
and redeemed coupons.
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• TV
Converter Box Coupon Program Statistics and Background
Posted January 5, 2009
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