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CIRCUIT CITY WANTS DIGITAL TV FINES TOSSED OUT
May 19, 2008 - Federal regulators should throw out fines imposed against Circuit City Stores
for violating rules regarding next year's switch from analog to digital television, the consumer
electronics retailer said in a filing Tuesday.
The Federal Communications Commission last month fined Circuit City, Wal-Mart Stores, Best
Buy, and other retailers a combined $3.9 million for failing to properly label that analog-only
televisions will need to be retrofitted after the switch to digital TV.
In a filing with the FCC, the Richmond company said its $712,000 in fines should be eliminated
or reduced to nothing because the FCC lacks jurisdiction to enforce the rule to keep
consumers from buying TV equipment that won't work without a converter box after the digital
switch by Feb. 17, 2009.
Circuit City also said public comment was never heard on the FCC regulation that requires
retailers to display or affix "consumer alert" labels to analog-only TV equipment — including
TVs, DVDs, videocassette recorders and digital video recorders — that says it will not receive
signals after the nationwide digital transition without a special converter box.
The company said that it tried to comply with the rule and its questioned actions were never
"willful or repeated."
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Source: USA Today
May 19, 2008 - Federal regulators should throw out fines imposed against Circuit City Stores
for violating rules regarding next year's switch from analog to digital television, the consumer
electronics retailer said in a filing Tuesday.
The Federal Communications Commission last month fined Circuit City, Wal-Mart Stores, Best
Buy, and other retailers a combined $3.9 million for failing to properly label that analog-only
televisions will need to be retrofitted after the switch to digital TV.
In a filing with the FCC, the Richmond company said its $712,000 in fines should be eliminated
or reduced to nothing because the FCC lacks jurisdiction to enforce the rule to keep
consumers from buying TV equipment that won't work without a converter box after the digital
switch by Feb. 17, 2009.
Circuit City also said public comment was never heard on the FCC regulation that requires
retailers to display or affix "consumer alert" labels to analog-only TV equipment — including
TVs, DVDs, videocassette recorders and digital video recorders — that says it will not receive
signals after the nationwide digital transition without a special converter box.
The company said that it tried to comply with the rule and its questioned actions were never
"willful or repeated."
Click on the red link above to continue the story.
Source: USA Today
