LPTV Group Challenges DTV Box Program

LPTV GROUP CHALLENGES DTV BOX PROGRAM
[SOURCE: tvnewsday]
The Community Broadcasters Association, a trade group representing more than 2,600 low power TV stations, yesterday asked the FCC to declare unlawful any analog-to-digital DTV converters that are not able to pass through analog signals. According to the CBA, any box built without the pass-through feature would violate the All-Channel Receiver Act, a federal law that says that says that all receivers of over-the-air signals must be able to receive all channels. The CBA sees the pass-through feature as critical to low-power TV stations and translators since many of them will continue broadcasting analog signals long after the Feb. 17, 2009, cut-off of analog by full power stations.
http://www.tvnewsday.com/articles/2007/12/07/daily.5/