Re: Maine PBS goes digital and saves state $1.6 million

["Dan Billings" <billings@suscom-maine.net>]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chris Beckwith" <beckwith@ime.net>
To: <bri@bostonradio.org>
Sent: Friday, June 20, 2003 5:41 PM
Subject: Re: Maine PBS goes digital and saves state $1.6 million

> Is there an accountant in the house?  The $1.6 million "saved" by the
state came
> in the form of a $1.6 million federal grant.  In other words, they just
shifted
> some of the costs to a broader base of taxpayers.

All our friends in southern New England have a lot more money than we do up
here so I am glad they can contribute to setting up a series of digital
transmitters which no one is watching.

-- Dan Billings, Bowdoinham, Maine