The Senate Commerce Committee Thursday gave a shot in the arm to low-power TV stations.

Without debate, the committee agreed to make a technical correction to the Deficit Reduction Act that will allow the government to give out $65 million to help low-power TV stations and translators make the switch to digital.

The way the bill had been written, low-powers would not get the money until October 2010, a year-and-a-half after full-powers make the DTV switch.

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