The NCTA is saying that the only viable option for most cable operators will be to carry both an analog and the digital broadcast, effectively tying up nearly 12 MHz of capacity on their systems. The other option is to carry just the digital signals and let consumers decide if they want to bother with a STB to watch the broadcast signals. - Craig I would like to see broadcast signals bumped to the digital tier and taken off the analog tier for a selfish reason: our programming (EDU-TV and UNLV-TV) was already taken off the analog tier on Cox Cable and put to the digital tier. While we probably don't have the type of programming that would convince a large group of subscribers to go to the digital tier to continue to receive it, perhaps if the major broadcasters were to go to the digital tier only, they would help pull more people to the digital tier and, thus, provide more potential customers to our programming. And perhaps this is true for other digital tier-only networks. Of course, it sounds like people are consuming broadcast programming much less these days (based on recent discussion), so perhaps not. So could broadcast channels being on only the digital tier move everyone from analog to digital? Will it effect digital tier subscription to the point that the cable operators could remove the analog? Dan Grimes