Scrambled messages sent on digital TV transition.(News)

RCR Wireless News, February, 2005

Byline: HEATHER FORSGREN WEAVER

The transition to digital TV moves forward-or does it? The messages were mixed last week as the Federal Communications Commission denied broadcasters must-carry rights and industry leaders called for a hard date even as a key senator was saying he does not favor a hard date for the transition.

In a much-anticipated decision, the FCC on Thursday said cable companies are constitutionally not required to carry all of the video streams offered by a broadcaster. Broadcasters had sought a ruling where "primary video channel'' would be interpreted as all of their video streams.

"If some video is primary, it necessarily follows that some is secondary. The view urged by broadcasters that primary video includes...

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