[opendtv] Re: News: CEA To Back Ferree TV

  • From: "John Willkie" <johnwillkie@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 3 Jun 2004 17:43:19 -0700

"a station's signal" is somehow in that section?  It's one of the closest
characterizations I have seen of that section, but one cannot take it down
to a single station's DTV signal.

John Willkie

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Subject: [opendtv] Re: News: CEA To Back Ferree TV


Wow, someone actually read 47usc309!  Amazing!

----- Original Message -----
From: "Craig Birkmaier" <craig@xxxxxxxxx>

>   That plan, developed under Media Bureau Chief Ken Ferree's
> leadership, would count all cable subscribers as digitally served by
> local broadcasters, even if they don't have a digital set and their
> only access to local station's digital broadcasts are cable signals
> that have been "downconverted" to analog.
>
>   The FCC's plan would let nearly all cable customers be considered
> digitally served almost immediately. A 1997 law states that
> broadcasters must return their old analog channels to the government
> when 85% of U.S. homes are considered capable of receiving a
> station's DTV signal.



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