A joint ‘educational and training advisory’ issued Tues. by the F...
A joint “educational and training advisory” issued Tues. by the FCC and the CE Retailers Coalition (CERC) warns the “national retail community” that retailers were to be labeling clearly “any broadcast television equipment they are selling that has only…
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an analog tuner” by May 25. The advisory seems to be part of a CERC-FCC collaboration that began in 2004 with publication of the “DTV Tip Sheet” -- not a result of a lengthening list of citations sent brick & mortar and online retailers on allegations of violating the May 25 order. The Commission sent a similarly worded advisory jointly with the National Assn. of Consumer Agency Administrators, warning that the order is now in effect. By our Tues. deadline, the FCC site listed 69 citations to CE stores nationwide through June 6, declaring they failed to post alerts on or near analog-only products requiring them. Among national chains, Wal-Mart owns the most stores cited (13), followed by Circuit City (11), RadioShack (9), Target (8) and Best Buy (5). Major e-commerce sites also have been cited, and Buy.com and Newegg.com joined the list Tues. Newegg didn’t post an alert on one Lite-On DVD recorder model it was selling, the citation said. Commission allegations against Buy.com were more extensive -- 14 products bore no alerts when investigators checked the site June 5 and again June 11, the citation said. Alerts were missing from 11 TVs, 1 TV/DVD combo and 2 DVD recorders sold at Buy.com, the citation said.