A member of the Federal Communications Commission came to West Virginia Friday to discuss next month's scheduled switch from analog to digital television signals.

Jonathan Adelstein, one of five members on the commission, held a public hearing on the transition in Charleston.

About 47,000 West Virginia households, or six percent overall, rely on analog TV sets to pick up over-the-air channels. Adelstein says that's lower than the national average of about 11 percent.

Still, he says the FCC wants to ensure that everyone is taken care of.

However, the government has run out of money for $40 coupons to subsidize converter boxes for analog TVs not hooked up to cable or satellite. The transition team for President-elect Barack Obama estimates that six million coupon requests will be on a waiting list by the scheduled February 17 switch.

Adelstein says he favors a bill introduced yesterday by West Virginia Sen. Jay Rockefeller that would postpone the analog-to-digital transition to June 12.