Multicasting: wait 'til '04.(Television industry may have to wait until early 2004 before getting an answer from the Federal Communications Commission on key digital-TV carriage issues)(Brief Article)

Multichannel News, December, 2003 by Hearn, Ted

WASHINGTON -- The cable and broadcast-TV industries will probably have to wait until early 2004 before getting an answer from the Federal Communications Commission on key digital-TV carriage issues, an agency source said last week.

The deadline for FCC staff to present the five commissioners with recommendations for their the Dec. 17 public meeting was Wednesday, Nov. 26 (when Multichannel News went to press last week). But the staff did not plan to meet that deadline.

Instead, Media Bureau officials will continue work on concluding their review of the proposed News Corp. merger with DirecTV Inc. parent Hughes Electronics Corp., an FCC source said.

FCC chairman Michael Powell told reporters in October that he wanted to act on...

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