Broadcasters Balk at DBS Digital Plan.(digital broadcast signal)(Brief Article)
Multichannel News, November, 2001 by HEARN, TED
Broadcasters are waving off a plan hatched by EchoStar Communications Corp. chairman and CEO Charlie Ergen that's designed to make it harder for TV stations to obtain government waivers to miss a key digital-TV deadline. By next May, all commercial TV stations are required to beam a digital signal, but hundreds of stations -- about 30 percent of the total -- are expected to miss that deadline.
Those late stations are expected to seek waivers from the FCC under a plan endorsed by the National Association of Broadcasters. But Ergen is pressing the Federal Communications Commission not to accommodate the NAB by granting blanket waivers, especially to affiliates of ABC, CBS, NBC or Fox. In exchange for waivers, the FCC should require the...
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