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

[Aaron Read <aread@speakeasy.net>]

At 05:58 PM 6/20/2003, Dan Billings wrote:
>----- 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


That's okay Dan, we feel the same way about you chipping in to help with 
the Big Dig!  :-)
<wry grin...and ducking!>



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Aaron "Bishop" Read             aread@speakeasy.net
FriedBagels Consulting          AOL-IM: readaaron
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