NCTA: Multicast Must-Carry Is No Boon to Minorities

NCTA: MULTICAST MUST-CARRY IS NO BOON TO MINORITIES
[SOURCE: Broadcasting&Cable, AUTHOR: John Eggerton]
The National Cable & Telecommunications Association said it is all for tax credits that would boost minority media ownership. The NCTA also supports the creation of an “Access to Capital” conference that would give minority entrepreneurs access to communications companies and private-equity firms, as well as the creation of a "diversity guidebook” of best practices for encouraging diversity and boosting minority and female ownership. But those initiatives do not include requiring cable operators to carry broadcasters’ multicast digital-TV channels or a proposal by Federal Communications Commission chairman Kevin Martin to give must-carry status to DTV channels subleased by broadcasters to so-called designated entries, which would include minorities and women.
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