Reps. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) and John Dingell (D-Mich.) have asked the National Telecommunications & Information Administration (NTIA) to allow consumers to reapply for DTV-to-analog coupons if they fail to redeem them before the 90-day expiration date.
NTIA is handing out up to two coupons per household, each worth $40 toward the boxes, which will allow analog-only sets to receive and over-the-air TV full-power TV signal after the switch to digital in February 2009....