ACATS orders issue of b'cast multichannels. (Advisory Committee on Advanced Television Services)
Multichannel News, February, 1994 by Lambert, Peter
Broadcasters are enjoying new opportunities to lobby the Federal Communications Commission and Congress for permission to use proposed high-definition television channels to deliver multichannel video services similar to what cable operators envision doing. Cable operators are sure to weigh in loudly against the plan, which in the worst-case scenario envisions 10 broadcasters in a given market being allowed to offer a total of 60 channels to compete against cable.
Under proposed FCC rules, the agency will allocate to each broadcaster a second 6 MHz channel for a 15-year transitional period from analog TV to HDTV -- or ADTV, "advanced digital TV," as former FCC Chairman Alfred Sikes sought to more broadly rename it during tenure. That broadcast...
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