The Bush council also pushed for auctioning the broadcast spectrum so that taxpayers could pocket some profit.
The best long-term proposal would be to use funds from the eventual sale of the broadcast spectrum to establish a trust fund for the system.
Last April, they won passage of a law that critics say gives them free space on the broadcast spectrum.
The broadcast spectrum was considered a natural resource, like the air, to which every citizen had a claim.
Films like these will jostle for attention on a broadcast spectrum crowded with "reality programming" of every kind and quality.
Someone must be found to pay more than $26 billion for the unused part of the broadcast spectrum.
Several industries are anxious to buy the broadcast spectrum that will be freed when the transition is complete.
The broadcast spectrum is a natural resource owned by the American people.
The struggle at hand, however, concerns not landfill but airfill - vast new space in the broadcast spectrum.
The property involved is part of the broadcast spectrum.