克林顿政府于1996年3月中旬正式颁布了有关实施地面数字广播电视的具体政策。这些政策包括向广播电视机构开放并分配用于数字传输的频率；计划在月份年以前完成地面电视向数字方式的转变，并要求各频率使用机构将现有的用于模拟信号传输的频率归还给政府；政府将公开拍卖这些频 The Clinton administration formally promulgated a specific policy on the implementation of terrestrial digital broadcasting and television in mid-March 1996. These include the opening up to the broadcasters and distribution of frequencies for digital transmission; the planned conversion of terrestrial television to digital mode by the middle of the month and the requirement for frequency-use agencies to return the existing frequency for the transmission of analogue signals to The government; the government will open the auction of these frequencies