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

[John Willkie <johnwillkie@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

the first cut of which is what I cited; IIRC, we're still waiting for the third 
cut.

John Willkie

-----Original Message-----
>From: Craig Birkmaier <craig@xxxxxxxxx>
>Sent: Jul 2, 2008 8:53 AM
>To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: [opendtv] Re: Why DTV signals are available on basic analog cable
>
>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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