No dice on dual DTV in revived plan: FCC is said to include multicasting but not analog/digital.(United States Federal Communications Commission)(digital television)

Broadcasting & Cable, July, 2003 by McConnell, Bill

Last summer's ill-fated plan to settle the DTV carriage fight between cable operators and broadcasters is being resurrected at the FCC. The plan is sure to anger the cable industry, and broadcasters are professing ambivalence over a victory that they characterize as a split decision. FCC Media Bureau Chief Ken Ferree told reporters last week he will resubmit a plan for digital-carriage rights for commissioners' review with "no major changes" from one that failed to win a three-vote majority last August.

That proposal, industry sources said, would increase chances that cable companies would one day be required to carry the multiple streams made possible by digital compression. Ferree wouldn't confirm the details of his plan, but sources following the...

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