Congress is investigating the political connection and is particularly concerned with the direct involvement by the vice-president's office. Phillips Davis reports that the federal government is giving an additional television channel to every TV station in the country, to be used for broadcast of high resolution, digital signals. They'll be allowed to continue broadcasting analog programming on the existing channel in the meantime. The allocation is considered to be worth billions of dollars. Some federal officials complain that TV stations are not converting to HDTV fast enough.
Stations respond that they'll have to invest huge sums in new equipment.
Bob Edwards talks with Sylvia Poggioli about the Italian response to the influx of Albanian refugees. Chris Arnold reports two young computer entrepreneurs have endowed a chair at Stanford University, leaving analysts to wonder whether a new generation of philanthropists is emerging from Silicon Valley.