Tweet

Big-Box Stores Challenge FCC Fines

By John Eggerton -- Broadcasting & Cable, 5/18/2008 8:00:00 PM

Best Buy challenged the FCC's authority to require it to label analog-only TV sets, suggesting that major retailers are beginning to present a united front on the issue. Circuit City also challenged the commission on the issue.

The companies say the FCC has no authority to impose the labeling requirement, or to impose the fines it did—$280,000 against Best Buy and $712,000 against Circuit City.

The FCC imposed the labeling requirement so that consumers would know that sets with only analog tuners would need to be hooked up to converter boxes or multichannel-video service to continue to receive full-power TV signals after the Feb. 17, 2009, switch to digital broadcasting.

Tweet

Talkback

We would love your feedback!

Post a comment

» View All Talkback Threads

Related Content

• Topics
• Author
• Most Popular Pages

No related content found.

Also by this author

• 'Smart Broadcasting'Is Broadband

• Roland Martin Remains On TV One

• CNN's Candy Crowley Receives Wiliam Allen White Citation

• FCC Skeds First Mobility Fund Auction for September

• Rural Telcos: FCC Sec. 706 Authority Covers Retrans Reform

Also by John Eggerton

Most Popular Pages

No Top Articles

• Resource Center
• Browse Categories
• Browse Companies

Featured Company

• Mixpo

  

  Mixpo is a video advertising technology provider that enables publishers, ad networks, and agencies to easily deliver dynamically tailored, interactive video ads that are customized in real-time for unique audience segments. Our platform also provides automatic multivariate testi..more

---

Most Recent Resources

• The New Normal for Promoting Tune-in
• Infrastructure Design for High Volume Video Workflows
• Mobile Media Strategies That Work
• Multi Format Encoding for Efficient Content Repurposing
• The CIOs Guide to Videoconferencing Security Keeping Pace with th..