[opendtv] Re: News: FCC's Martin Floats Leased Multicast Must-Carry Proposal

> "Small and independently owned businesses could take advantage
> of this capacity and use a portion of the existing broadcasters'
> digital spectrum to operate their own broadcast channel. This
> new programming station would then obtain all the accompanying
> rights and obligations of other broadcast stations, such as
> public interest obligations and carriage rights."

> That means those stations could assert must-carry rights, which
> would be a change from the current FCC policy which has
> established that broadcasters cannot assert must-carry for any
> digital channel except the digital replication of their analog
> channel.

But the "current FCC policy" clearly becomes obsolete on 18 Feb 2009.
When the analog channel disappears, by definition any must-carry rule
will be worded differently.

Naturally, any OTA viewer would welcome additional program streams,
irrespective of must-carry fallout.

Bert
 
 
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