At 3:26 PM -0500 2/1/05, John Shutt wrote: > If you offer a 4 channel multiplex 24/7, you would be required >to broadcast 12 hours per week of regularly scheduled children's >programming. I think that will be enough to kill most multicasting plans on >commercial stations. > What multicast plans? Are you talking about the announced intentions of stations to offer multicasts? Announcements that are intimately tied to the desires of the NAB, major station groups and the media conglomerates to force cable to carry these multicasts. That ain't gonna happen! At least PBS is setting an example for its commercial peers... Negotiate carriage! Regards Craig ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can UNSUBSCRIBE from the OpenDTV list in two ways: - Using the UNSUBSCRIBE command in your user configuration settings at FreeLists.org - By sending a message to: opendtv-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line.