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1. CSD Receives $1.1 Million FCC Grant to Implement Nationwide Awareness Campaign About Transition to DTV
   

2. CSD Favors Efforts to Delay Nation's DTV Transition

3. CSD Launches Nationwide Call Center and Web Site to Assist Deaf/Hard of Hearing With DTV Transition

4. FCC Extends CSD's DTV Contract to June 30
5. Statement by the President on the transition to all-digital programming

Stories about the CSD-DTV Help Center on other websites

• Friday marks U.S. switch to digital TV (San Francisco Examiner, June 10, 2009)
• Digital TV Transition to occur June 12, 2009 (Paul Butler's Production Blog -online radio interview)
• FCC Grants $10 Million in Funds for Call Centers in DTV Switch (Outbound Call Center Global Online Community)
• CSD's digital transition help desk open until the end of month (Sioux Falls Argus Leader, June 5, 2009)
• Digital Television Transition at Leadership Conference on Civil Rights (DTV stories from around the country--updated daily)
• Deaf to get help with TV transition (Sioux Falls Argus Leader, Feb. 8, 2009)
• DTV for the Deaf (KSFY-TV, Feb. 6, 2009)
• CSD Gets $1 Million From FCC (KELO-TV, Jan. 7, 2009)
• Helping the Hearing Impaired with DTV (KELO-TV, Feb. 10, 2009)
• Survey Targets Captioning Issues (KSFY-TV, April 2, 2009)
• COAT Affiliate Communication Service for the Deaf Opens Help Center for DTV Captioning Problems (Coalition of Organizations for Accessible Technology)

E-News from other organizations about CSD-DTV Help Center

TDI WELCOMES CSD AS A DTV TRANSITION RESOURCE
Consumer Survey Launched to Explore Digital Captioning Problems (TDI E-news, April 6, 2009)

Communication Service for the Deaf Establishes Help Center for Captioning Problems in Digital TV Transition (American Association of People with Disabilities Newsletter, May 2009)

Digital TV Transition is coming! (Association of Late-Deafened Adults, May 17, 2009)

Having Closed Captioning Issues? Are you Digital-Ready? (Sign of the Times, Deaf Services Commission of Iowa, June 2009. PDF FILE)