[opendtv] Re: FCC rules for cable after the OTA TV digital transition
- From: "John Shutt" <shuttj@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2007 19:49:49 -0400
----- Original Message -----
From: "Manfredi, Albert E" <albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx>
Ah yes, another stretching of logic, like the time years ago when you
said that the FCC was not mandating any sort of OTA broadcasting after
analog shutoff. Remember that?
I said no such thing, Bert. I said that the FCC was not mandating any sort
of FREE TO AIR broadcasting after the analog shutoff. I said so based on
the rule that said:
(b) At any time that a DTV broadcast station
permittee or licensee transmits a video program
signal on its analog television channel, it must
also transmit at least one over-the-air video
program signal at no direct charge to viewers
on the DTV channel that is licensed to the
analog channel,
And the FCC subesquently amended that rule (no doubt due solely in response
to my OpenDTV posting) to specifically mandate at least one channel be
broadcast in the clear after simulcasting ended. Then they subesquently
recinded the simulcasting rule altogether.
Remenber that?
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