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Monday, 10 September 2007 20:48 |
The cable television industry has promised that when U.S. broadcasters
shift to digital-only transmission in 2009, cable subscribers who are
not equipped to receive a digital signal still will see a picture.
Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin is not taking
their word for it. He is trying to persuade his fellow commissioners to
pass rules that will force the industry to keep that promise. The issue
is scheduled for a vote Tuesday morning.
"Unless the commission acts, some cable customers may actually be
harmed by the transition and lose the ability to view some of these
channels," Martin told The Associated Press Monday evening.
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Wednesday, 12 September 2007 11:57 |
Joining National Association of Broadcasters president David Rehr for a
Monday press conference before they took the Hill were TV-industry
executives including NAB board chairman Jack Sander of Belo; Alan
Frank, president of Post-Newsweek Stations and chairman of the NAB TV
board; Elizabeth Murphy Burns of Morgan Murphy Media; Anne Sweeney,
president of the ABC TV group; Jack Abernathy, CEO, Fox Television
Stations; Jeff Willis of ESPN Productions; and a veritable host of
others.
They argued that allowing unlicensed spectrum-sensing devices, like
personal digital assistants and laptops, into the TV band threatens the
transition to digital TV for not only an unproven technology, but one
that they pointed out has been demonstrated not to work.
The Federal Communications Commission conducted two separate tests that
showed interference to DTV sets from the devices and devices failing to
accurately sense when a channel is vacant.
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Wednesday, 12 September 2007 20:53 |
George Dillon from the FCC's Enforcement Bureau informs us that the
FCC's "Beta Test" website for pirate radio complaints is up and
running. Accordingly, we as a state association and individual
broadcasters may begin to use the website to provide the FCC with
information regarding the operations of unauthorized "pirate" radio
stations.
The website is still in the testing phase and thus your use of it is
extremely important in determining its overall utility as an
enforcement tool and its ease of use. Please let me know if you have
difficulty using the website or have any suggestions for further
improving it.
Please also promote this "Beta Test" website to your members.
The link to the website is: http://www.fcc.gov/eb/PIRIX/
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Wednesday, 12 September 2007 20:59 |
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Federal Communications Commission (FCC) requirements governing closed
captioning of “library” or “pre-rule” English-language video
programming will significantly increase on Jan. 1, 2008. Pre-rule video
programming is programming that was first published or exhibited before
Jan. 1, 1998 (for analog programming) or before July 1, 2002 (for
digital programming). The FCC’s regulations require that 30 percent of
all pre-rule programming that is not otherwise exempt from a captioning
obligation be captioned per channel, per calendar quarter. Effective
Jan. 1, 2008, the percentage of pre-rule programming required to be
captioned will increase to 75 percent per channel, per quarter.
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Thursday, 13 September 2007 17:43 |
The Federal Communications Commission late Tuesday unanimously adopted
rules designed to prevent analog-only cable subscribers from losing
their local TV stations’ signals for three years after the switch to
digital TV occurs Feb. 17, 2009.
The FCC estimates some 40 million TV homes, approximately 35 percent of
the country’s TV universe, are analog-only cable subscribers.
Required by law to make local broadcasters’ primary signals viewable by
all their subscribers, cable operators will be able to choose to either
transmit the digital signal in analog format or assure that all
subscribers have the equipment necessary to view the digital signal.
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