[opendtv] Re: Family Research Council & Must Carry
- From: "Dale Kelly" <dalekelly@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Thu, 03 Nov 2005 16:54:30 -0800
Dan wrote:
>But here in Las Vegas, there are about a dozen LPTV
stations that really have a very limited audience. So how does one decide
who gets Must Carry and who doesn't? To me, this is another argument
against Must Carry.
LPTV stations do not qualify for Must Carry. It applies only to full power
stations.
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Subject: [opendtv] Family Research Council & Must Carry
One of the articles referenced in Mark's weekly update particularly caught
my attention (Thanks, Mark, for putting out the compiled updates). If I am
reading it right, in the Family Research Council's support, the Must Carry
is good for society to help bring divergent programming to cable. I
understand the argument to try and bring moral programming to cable, but
I'm not sure Must Carry is the way to do it, based on Craig's arguments of
how Must Carry is effecting cable programming.
However, there is one point made that I would be interested in hearing
opinion on: assuming Must Carry continues, should it also include
independent OTA programming? Why should the major networks get Must Carry
and independents be left behind? I know for a fact that the local Latino
stations provide excellent relevant local programming to that demographic,
just as one example. But here in Las Vegas, there are about a dozen LPTV
stations that really have a very limited audience. So how does one decide
who gets Must Carry and who doesn't? To me, this is another argument
against Must Carry.
News release for reference:
http://www.frc.org/get.cfm?i=PR05J10
Absence of Multi-Channel Must Carry in Proposed DTV Legislation Detriment
to Families
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: October 31, 2005
CONTACT: Amber Hildebrand, (202) 393-2100
"The omission of Multi-Channel Must Carry from this important legislation
is not some minor technical problem but one that will have a vast and
deleterious effect on America's families." ~ FRC President Tony Perkins
Washington, D.C. - The advent of digital technology has given broadcast
television stations the ability to provide several channels of programming
within the same band width they have always used. This process is called
"multicasting" and it is one of the technological phenomena occurring due
to the transition of the Nation's broadcast industry from analog to digital
transmission. The ability to "multicast" is critical to the survival of
broadcast stations providing local and religious broadcasting.
Currently language to approve a Multi-Channel Must Carry in the proposed
DTV legislation pending in the Committee on Energy and Commerce is absent.
The legislation as-is does not, but should, call for the inclusion of all
the new independent digital channels available to the market. Its absence
also reduces the availability of needed family-friendly and religious
programming being offered by local broadcast channels.
Family Research Council President Tony Perkins released the following
statement regarding the pending DTV legislation in the Committee on Energy
and Commerce:
"The omission of Multi-Channel Must Carry from this important legislation
is not some minor technical problem but one that will have a vast and
deleterious effect on America's families. This issue is critical because
the presence of Multi-Channel Must Carry will ensure that a significant
number of the new channels brought to the marketplace via digital cable
television, which is becoming pervasive, will be subject to federal
indecency rules covering free over-the-air broadcasting. Conversely, in
the absence of Multi-Channel Must Carry, the new digital channels brought
to the cable marketplace will, barring the application of indecency laws to
cable generally, be at liberty to ignore the laws that now protect families
from offensive and indecent broadcasting."
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