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If you don't have cable or satellite, chances are your television won't work four years from now.

That's because television stations are switching over to digital signals. The old TV sets will have to have a special box to get over the air signals.

The boxes won't come cheap.

So Senator Ted Stevens (R-AK) wants to help you out. You'd only have to pay $10 for a box. The federal government would foo the bill for the rest. That'd cost Washington about $3 billion.

But since Washington auctioned off the spectrum for those digital signals -- they expect to make about $10 billion from TV stations. (WashPost)