Cable takes a loss in DTV bill: revised legislation would block some signals from cable 'downconversion'.(POLICY)
Multichannel News, January, 2006 by Hearn, Ted
WASHINGTON -- Cable operators lost the right to deliver some digital-TV signals in analog, a policy defeat that might force millions of subscribers to lease set-top boxes to maintain their ability to watch local broadcast stations via cable. lust before Christmas, the House and Senate agreed to sweeping legislation that called for ending local broadcasters' transition to digital transmission on Feb.
17, 2009. The House bill had included language designed to avoid the mass deployment of set-top boxes, providing relief to large and small MSOs in different ways. NAB OBJECTED But House Energy and Commerce Committee chairman Joe Barton (R-Texas) agreed to remove it after Senate Budget Committee chairman Judd Gregg (R-N.H.), with the...
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