[opendtv] Re: News: DTV Coalition Pushes Satellite HDTV
- From: "John Willkie" <jmwillkie@xxxxxxx>
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- Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2004 11:19:57 -0700
D.O.A. (It's just EchoStar, anyway.)
John Willkie
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Subject: [opendtv] News: DTV Coalition Pushes Satellite HDTV
Breaking News
DTV Coalition Pushes Satellite HDTV
By John Eggerton -- Broadcasting & Cable, 4/22/2004 11:38:00 AM
A new digital-transition coalition has formed to lobby for the
speedier rollout of diogital-TV service -- including freeing up
satellite to offer HDTV to local markets nationwide -- and the
resulting reclamation of analog spectrum for resale.
The aptly named Digital Transition Coalition includes bedfellows
American's For Taxpayer Reform, Media Access Project, Frontiers of
Freedom, EchoStar, and Public Knowledge. The mix of some liberal and
conservative groups mirrors the mix of goals, which include serving
rural areas, improving emergency communications, opening up new
markets for EchoStar, keeping broadcasters on task and fattening the
treasury.
The group will track and push for policies that advance:
1) Availability of network DTV signals nationwide (it suggests
satellite delivery might move things along)
2) Return of the analog spectrum by Dec. 31, 2006.
3) Redeployment of some analog spectrum to public safety use and the
rest auctioned no later than Dec. 31, 2007.
The group has also launched a Web site, www.IWantMyHDTV.com, to
enlist support for its legislative proposals.
The site con taints information about those efforts, including
academic studies. It also plugs one proposed solution to speeding
HDTV rollout--allowing satellite broadcasters to deliver
out-of-market HDTV signals to markets where a local station is not
providing them.
Congress is currently considering changes to the law that allows
satellite companies to carry local stations, or conversely prevents
them from importing network signals to markets with a viable local
affiliate. EchoStar is pushing to make it easier to import digital
signals of distant network stations.
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