[opendtv] Re: 20060304 Schubin's Saturday Stuff (Mark's Monday Memo)
- From: Tom Barry <trbarry@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 04 Mar 2006 22:58:00 -0500
Mark Schubin wrote:
> - The FCC's Video Competition Report has finally been released.
I hav=
> en't had a chance to look it over completely yet, but one interesting
tidbi=
> t is that multichannel video programming distributors (MVPD) have
claimed m=
> ore than 85% of TV households since June of 2004, which means the old
analo=
> g cutoff date at the end of this year might have worked. Cable's
percentag=
> e has finally dropped below 70%. Only direct-broadcast satellite has
grown=
> among MVPDs:
> <http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/FCC-06-11A1.pdf>
>
Actually, if due to the technicality the new law is not really law then
I would think the old one is legally still in effect. So the 85% rule
will still apply shortly if they don't change anything.
- Tom
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