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Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice PLLC has partnered with Massillon Cable TV to create the Save Our Sets Coalition, a nonpartisan advocacy group that is proposing a pro-consumer solution to the federally-mandated transition from analog to digital television. As part of the advocacy campaign, Womble Carlyle and Massillon Cable TV have launched the website www.saveoursets.org to raise awareness about how the analog-to-digital transition will affect millions of Americans, and how Save Our Sets believes Congress can act to ease the transition.

Save our Sets is concerned that millions of Americans will lose access to television on Feb 17, 2009 absent substantive improvements in how current federal law implements the transition. Save Our Sets believes the transition to digital television is a positive development for America, but that it should be carried out with minimal negative repercussions for America’s households and without millions of Americans unnecessarily losing the benefit of the billions of dollars they have invested in their analog television sets.

The Save Our Sets proposal to help Americans with analog television sets can be viewed at www.saveoursets.org. One executive describes the Save Our Sets proposal as "mak[ing] eminent sense and…may be the salvation."

Womble Carlyle's Save Our Sets team includes Mark Palchick, an attorney focusing on cable television and FCC regulatory matters; John Mashburn, a member of the firm’s government relations practice, and Henry Fawell, a member of Womble Carlyle's strategic communications service.

Save Our Sets Coalition Web Site