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Industry: Email Alert RSS FeedBroadcasters arm for ATV fight. (advanced television service polarizes broadcaster, computer interests)(includes related articles on Microsoft's digital broadcast plans, Federal Communications Commission chairman Reed Hundt's ATV policy, and the ATV alternative base-layer system)
Broadcasting & Cable, October, 1996 by Jessell, Harry A.
Broad coalition plans defense against computer, filmmaker attack
Broadcasters thought they had reached the end of their eight-year digital TV standard-setting odyssey last December. Instead, they now find themselves facing still more battles over the broadcast technology with computer industry giant Bill Gates and others.
Later this month, industry leaders as well as representatives from TV set makers, consumer groups and labor unions will gather at National Association of Broadcasters headquarters in Washington to brainstorm strategies for jump-starting their beleaguered standard at the FCC.
The Oct. 28 meeting--11 months to the day after the FCC's Advisory Com, mittee on Advanced Television Service recommended the Grand Alliance...
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