1. Congress has mandated that after February 17, 2009, full-power television broadcast
stations must transmit only digital signals and may no longer transmit analog signals.1 With this
Report and Order in our third periodic review, we resolve issues necessary to complete the
conversion of the nation’s broadcast television system from analog to digital television (“DTV”).

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