[opendtv] Re: Why DTV signals are available on basic analog cable
- From: John Willkie <johnwillkie@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2008 09:55:32 -0700 (GMT-07:00)
the first cut of which is what I cited; IIRC, we're still waiting for the third
cut.
John Willkie
-----Original Message-----
>From: Craig Birkmaier <craig@xxxxxxxxx>
>Sent: Jul 2, 2008 8:53 AM
>To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: [opendtv] Re: Why DTV signals are available on basic analog cable
>
>At 9:06 PM -0400 7/1/08, John Willkie wrote:
>>footnote 62 from today's Copyright report to Congress
>>
>> "In the context of analog broadcast signal carriage, it has
>>been the FCC's
>> view that the Communications Act contemplates there be one
>>basic service
>> tier. In the context of digital carriage, the FCC found that
>>it is consistent
>> with Section 623 of the Communications Act to require that a
>>broadcaster's
>> digital signal must be available on a basic tier such that
>>all broadcast
>> signals are available to all cable subscribers at the lowest
>>priced tier
>> of service, as Congress envisioned. See Carriage of Digital Television
>> Broadcast Signals, 16 FCC Rcd 2598, 2643 (2001)."
>>
>>So, catv firms that purport to charge more than basic, basic, basic,
>>basic analog cable for access to DTV signals are either fooling
>>their customers or otherwise engaged in flim-flam.
>>
>>Gives them strong incentive, post-analog, to eliminate analog cable,
>>since each analog channel bandwidth can be used for multiple digital
>>channels.
>>
>
>I believe that the FCC addressed this with their rules for cable post
>DTV transition.
>
>Regards
>Craig
>
>
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