Ex-FCC Chairman Hundt Book About Obama Transition to Be Released April 2

A Crisis Wasted: Barack Obama's Defining Decisions, a book by former FCC Chairman Reed Hundt reviewing domestic policy decisions Barack Obama and his transition team made between September 2008 and his January 2009 inauguration, is to be released April 2, according to the publisher. Hundt was a member of the transition team. One action was asking Congress in early January 2009 to postpone the hard analog TV cutoff date from Feb. 17 for fear that funding problems with NTIA's DTV converter box coupon program would disenfranchise consumers (see 0901090135). Congress passed the DTV Delay Act in early February 2009, putting off the DTV transition to June 12 (see 0902050110).