Broadcasters Look to FCC for DTV-Carriage Help

BROADCASTERS LOOK TO FCC FOR DTV-CARRIAGE HELP
[SOURCE: Broadcasting&Cable, AUTHOR: John Eggerton]
The National Association of Broadcasters and its spectrum-watchdog counterpart, the Association for Maximum Service Television, weighed in on the Federal Communications Commission's cable digital-TV-carriage order, essentially supporting all of the things the cable industry opposed in its own filing at the FCC. Broadcasters told the FCC that it: 1) should not grant small cable operators a blanket exemption from the requirement that cable carry TV stations in analog and digital; 2) should not allow cable to decide how an HD signal should be converted to analog -- letterbox or trimming the edges; 3) extend channel-positioning requirements to DTV signals; and 4) that the rule prohibiting "material degradation" of the broadcast signal covers retransmission-consent, as well as must-carry stations.
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