Why is the government forcing television stations to go digital?
This program has been in the works for a long time. First, digital television offers sharper images, overall better quality and more programming options. Second, digital transmissions are more efficient and take up less “airwave space”. The US government is auctioning the frequencies currently used by analog transmissions and expects to pull in billions of dollars in new revenue for the use of these frequencies. I read somewhere that this will be used to pay off part of the national debt and is required to be used for this purpose as part of the Debt Reduction Act of 2005.
