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Martin Wants Digital Must-Carry In '09.(Kevin Martin)
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 ...
Tags: cable, digital television, FCC
Research articles 2007-04-16
Cable takes a loss in DTV bill: revised legislation would block some signals from cable 'downconversion'.(POLICY)
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. ...
Tags: cable, digital television, set-top, U.S. Congress
Research articles 2006-01-02
The cost of multicasting: MSOs, nets dread FCC carriage order on DTV signals.(FCC rules could hurt the Biography Channel)
WASHINGTON -- The Biography Channel is currently seen in about 25 million pay-TV homes. Whether the channel can double or triple distribution in coming years could depend on the outcome of a raging policy battle in the nation's capital. Biogr ...
Tags: broadcaster, cable, digital television, FCC, multicasting, programming
Research articles 2003-12-01
Ferree has a big cable list: FCC Media Bureau chief's goals include solving interoperability conundrum. (Top of the Week).(Brief Article)
FCC Media Bureau Chief Ken Ferree is tackling the digital-television transition as if he has consulted an organizational guru. He has a checklist of DTV's problems that he plans to tackle one-by-one. Two weeks ago, the commission approved rul ...
Tags: cable, digital television, FCC, retail company
Research articles 2002-08-19
Fritts keeps pressing for dual must-carry. (Policy).
LAS VEGAS -- It wouldn't be a National Association of Broadcasters convention without a little cable bashing. In a speech last Monday, NAB president Edward Fritts put the word out that the agreement on cable-ready digital TV sets was welcome n ...
Tags: cable, cable industry, digital television, FCC
Research articles 2003-04-14
NAB unveils carriage plan.(DTV Transition)(National Association of Broadcasters)
WASHINGTON -- With a controversial digital television plan nearing a vote at the Federal Communications Commission, TV broadcasters are promoting a gambit that would likely place a large financial burden on cable companies and their subscribers. WASHINGTON -- With a controversial...
Tags: cable, digital television, FCC, set-top
Research articles 2004-11-08
The cable standard.(digital television standards will not work with cable television)
Can the problems of interoperability be resolved? Digital television suffers many plagues, but none afflicts broadcasters more than one simple fact: DTV won't work with cable. Why is such a dear problem so hard to solve? ...
Tags: broadcaster, cable, cable television, digital television, FCC, programming, TV
Research articles 2000-09-04
BigBand Networks Selected by Five Chinese Cable Operators for Digital TV Expansion
Cable operators in five provinces--Tibet, Jiangsu, Gansu, Jiangxi and Shanxi--deploy BigBand's BMR([R]) to expand digital services in advance of 2008 Olympics
Tags: BigBand Networks, cable, digital television, TV
Research articles 2007-11-27
HDTV: just plug and play: we'll have DTV without set-top boxes by 2004. (Top of the Week).(high definition television)
The Consumer Electronics Association CEA and cable operators in the guise of the National Cable and Telecommunications Association have reached agreement on "plug-and-play" for digital TV sets, a move that will allow consumers, someti The Consumer Electronics Association CEA and cable operators (in ...
Tags: agreement, cable, consumer electronics, digital television, FCC, HDTV, set-top, set-top box, TV
Research articles 2002-12-30
Microtune Showcases Cable and Digital TV Solutions at CCBN International Trade Show in Beijing
Microtune Exhibits DVB-C, DVB-T and ATSC Tuners That Enable Chinese Manufacturers to Develop Cable and Consumer Products for Rapidly Expanding Digital Broadband and Broadcast Networks
Tags: cable, digital television
Research articles 2008-03-13
NAB to seek new multicast vote.(DTV MUST-CARRY)(National Association of Broadcasters)
LAS VEGAS -- Broadcasters were planning to ask federal regulators to reconsider a February ruling that banned TV stations from demanding cable-system carriage of multiple digital programming services, a high-ranking industry source said here last T LAS VEGAS -- Broadcasters were planning to ask...
Tags: broadcaster, cable, digital television, FCC, programming
Research articles 2005-04-25
NAB may pass on multicast challenge.(Multicasting)(National Association of Broadcasters)
WASHINGTON -- It's not exactly clear if the National Association of Broadcasters will launch a court fight to scuttle the Federal Communications Commission's ruling that cable systems do not have to carry multiple digital-TV services per station. WASHINGTON -- It's not exactly...
Tags: cable, cable industry, digital television, FCC, multicasting
Research articles 2005-03-07
Cable hops on Powell's DTV train.(Brief Article)
WASHINGTON -- Federal Communications Commission officials like to say the digital television train is leaving the station, and now's the time to jump aboard. What they don't say -- but strongly hint -- is that if you don't get on, you...
Tags: cable, FCC, digital television
Research articles 2002-05-06
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)
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 th Last summer's ill-fated plan...
Tags: broadcaster, cable, digital television, FCC, multicasting, TV
Research articles 2003-07-21
FCC is cable-overready.
Kennard: If parties don't agree on labeling standards by summer; U.S. will step in FCC Chairman William Kennard, frustrated by six years of bickering among the cable industry, equipment makers and Hollywood, says "time is running out&quo Kennard:...
Tags: cable, FCC, cable industry, digital television, standards
Research articles 2000-04-17
Ferree plan no picnic for cable, either: MSOs may have as many problems with DTV plan as broadcasters.(At NAB)(digital television)
LAS VEGAS -- It's possible there's no such thing as a Ferree lunch for the cable industry in the FCC's plan to wrap up the digital-TV transition within five years. At least one Federal Communications Commission official suspects the cable ind...
Tags: broadcaster, cable, digital television, FCC, TV
Research articles 2004-04-26
Cable Execs Hit FCC on Must-Carry.(Brief Article)
WASHINGTON -- Senior executives from 25 cable networks plan to blanket the Federal Communications Commission next week in an effort to blunt any attempt by the agency to force cable operators to carry both analog- and digital-TV signals. Nati ...
Tags: cable, digital television, FCC
Research articles 1999-11-01
Squaring off on 'analog hole': battle lines form over protecting DTV signal from pirates.(digital television)
After years of debate, the TV industry has a deal that will help fight a piracy problem that could plague producers in the future: illegal digital-to-digital copying and distribution of high-resolution, high-definition content. Now the industry can After years of debate, the TV industry...
Tags: cable, FCC, MPAA, digital television, TV
Research articles 2003-04-07
FCC: 'V' in DTV means voluntary.(Voluntary compliance w/ digital technology)
LAS VEGAS -- The Powell Plan is voluntary. Got that, cable guys? It was easy to lose count of the number of times Federal Communications Commission officials invoked the word "voluntary" last week at the National Association of Broa ...
Tags: cable, compliance, Consumer Electronics Association, digital television, FCC, TV
Research articles 2002-04-15
FCC Presses for Digital-TV Standards.
WASHINGTON -- Federal Communications Commission officials pressed industry groups last week to reach agreement on standards and copyright protection so consumers can purchase digital-television sets knowing the units will be compatible with cable t WASHINGTON -- Federal Communications Commission officials pressed industry groups...
Tags: cable, FCC, set-top, TV, digital television
Research articles 1999-05-24
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