Martin Wants Digital Must-Carry In '09.(Kevin Martin)

Multichannel News, April, 2007 by Hearn, Ted

By Ted Hearn All-Digital Systems Would Be Allowed To Cut Analog Feeds Washington- Ahead of this week's National Association of Broadcasters convention in Las Vegas, Federal Communications Commission chairman Kevin Martin is circulating a plan that would allow TV stations to demand both digital and analog carriage on cable systems beginning in early 2009, according to cable and FCC officials who asked not to be named.

In the same proposal, Martin would allow cable operators to drop the analog format if all subscribers had the necessary reception equipment to view local DTV signals. Few cable operators are expected to have all-digital platforms in time to take advantage of the dual-carriage exemption. [TABLE OMITTED] AIM:...

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