DTV

The Indypendent newspaper asked me to write an article for their October 3 issue explaining the importance of white spaces. (Updated following the hearing.)

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PPH is participating at a conference on the DTV transition from 10am-1pm on Wednesday, September 17th. The conference is being held at the Adam Clayton Powell State Office building at 163 West 125th Street and is hosted by the Harlem Consumer Education Council, the Federal Communication Commission and National Telecommunication and Information Administration. PPH's Joshua Breitbart and representatives from each organization will be there to talk about the upcoming transition in February. There will also be free demonstrations on how to set up your Digital Television converter and an opportunity to pick up government coupons that can be used towards the purchase of a new DTV converter box.

People's Production House recently participated in a great panel on the digital television (DTV) transition, hosted by Devorah Hill from Manhattan Neighborhood Network. Our co-panelists were Glen Ford from Black Agenda Report, Joel Kelsey from Consumers Union, and Lawrence Carter-Long from the Disabilities Network of New York City.

Testimony of Joshua Breitbart, Policy Director of People's Production House before the House of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Government Reform regarding the Digital Television Transition on July 18th, 2008 in Brooklyn New York.

The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform is holding a hearing on the digital television (DTV) transition in Brooklyn on Friday. People's Production House will be testifying at the hearing about the impact the federally mandated switch from analog television broadcasts to digital will have on New Yorkers who rely on over-the-air broadcasts for TV.

As I wrote in an article in February, "Counting Down to the Great Television Turnover," the DTV transition has the potential to disrupt access to free television for the hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers who get free television over the airwaves.