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Mobile Home Park Discriminaton
By Kesshia Peyton Anchor/Reporter
Published: Thu, July 17, 2008 - 4:21 pm
Last Updated: Thursday, July 17, 2008 - 4:47 pm
Last Updated: Thursday, July 17, 2008 - 4:47 pm
Kesshia Peyton
In February 2009, television will be broadcast in digital.
The government is offering converter box coupons to those who don't have cable or satellite.
News Five has learned that if you live in a RV park, a mobile home park, a nursing home, or have your mail delivered to the post office...you are "not" eligible to get one.
The U.S. Commerce Department told News Five that the coupons can only be mailed to individual households with addresses....not group homes.
Gary Flowers of Creola lives in a RV park.
He says it's not fair.
"A lot of people who don't have that type of address or thing, they're gonna really need the box. Because a lot people who live this way, we don't have satellites, everybody doesn't, you know we don't have cable in these parts. So it's really important to people that travel or work construction or get on the road up and down. It's going to be very important actually," said Gary Flowers of Creola.
The U.S. Department of Commerce says if you know someone with a physical address, have that person apply and give you the card.
In Mobile and Pensacola, almost 90,000 people have applied for the converter box coupon.
So far, 25,000 have been redeemed.
To apply for a coupons call: 1-888-388-2009 or by web: www.dtv2009.gov.
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