American Cable Association Chairman Patrick Knorr tells C-SPAN that FCC Chairman Kevin Martin's proposal to exempt smaller cable operators from a 2001 HDTV TV station carriage obligation gets to the root of the capacity issues that prompted ACA to seek a waiver of the FCC's September 2007 dual-carriage requirement. In an interview for C-SPAN's Communicators series, Knorr praised FCC Chairman Kevin Martin's announcement at ACA's convention in Washington Tuesday that he had proposed to the other commissioners giving those smaller cable operators an exemption from a 2001 requirement to carry TV station's HDTV signals in HD. Knorr said that without that, the cost and capacity issues could have put some small operators out of business, forced to pay $100,000 dollars to accommodate a few hundred viewers. http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/CA6549724.html?rssid=193
