Stevens Leans On FCC’s Martin About Small Cable

STEVENS LEANS ON FCC'S MARTIN ABOUT SMALL CABLE
[SOURCE: Multichannel News, AUTHOR: Ted Hearn]
Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) wants to know what Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin intends to do about small cable companies that feel burdened by new FCC rules on the mandatory carriage of local TV stations. In a Dec. 19 letter, Sen Steven told Chairman Martin that he had been reached by a cable company “with 300MHz of capacity, and is very worried about the impact of dual carriage” and is concerned that “there is not yet a clearly defined waiver process. Even the need to hire expensive D.C. attorneys to obtain a waiver can be a real concern for small operators.”
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