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Singing FCC Wonks Lampoon Digital TV

I always admire folks with the guts to make fun of their boss in public, and doubly so when the employer is as dysfunctional as the Federal Communication Commission. So a belated tip of the homburg to The Singing Regulators, a group of 12 FCC staffers who have been enlivening regulatory hearing audiences with topical […]

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I always admire folks with the guts to make fun of their boss in public, and doubly so when the employer is as dysfunctional as the Federal Communication Commission. So a belated tip of the homburg to The Singing Regulators, a group of 12 FCC staffers who have been enlivening regulatory hearing audiences with topical remakes of Christmas carols. Their latest opus, to the tune of "Away in a Manger," lampoons the national lurch into digital TV:

Away in a farm house, no show can I see.
I lost all my coupons to get DTV.
My friends in the city, they all said, ``Relax!''
That's easy to say when you're wired with co-ax.

Looking for help, I went down to the store,
I asked for more coupons, they just said ``what for?''
They sold me a monster, takes up my whole wall.
I yearn for the days of my old analog.

In Two- Thousand Nine after Super Bowl Week,
My analog set will become an antique.
I hope that the public will know what to do,
For most of my neighbors do not have a clue...

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