[opendtv] Re: Why DTV signals are available on basic analog cable

[Craig Birkmaier <craig@xxxxxxxxx>]

At 9:06 PM -0400 7/1/08, John Willkie wrote:
> footnote 62 from today's Copyright report to Congress
>
>       "In the context of analog broadcast signal carriage, it has 
> been the FCC's
>        view that the Communications Act contemplates there be one 
> basic service
>        tier. In the context of digital carriage, the FCC found that 
> it is consistent
>        with Section 623 of the Communications Act to require that a 
> broadcaster's
>        digital signal must be available on a basic tier such that 
> all broadcast
>        signals are available to all cable subscribers at the lowest 
> priced tier
>        of service, as Congress envisioned. See Carriage of Digital Television
>        Broadcast Signals, 16 FCC Rcd 2598, 2643 (2001)."
>
> So, catv firms that purport to charge more than basic, basic, basic, 
> basic analog cable for access to DTV signals are either fooling 
> their customers or otherwise engaged in flim-flam.
> Gives them strong incentive, post-analog, to eliminate analog cable, 
> since each analog channel bandwidth can be used for multiple digital 
> channels.
I believe that the FCC addressed this with their rules for cable post 
DTV transition.
Regards
Craig


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