ATLANTA -- Cox Communications Inc. will carry the digital signals of public-television stations in markets it serves. The agreement, with PBS and the Association of Public Television Stations announced last Wednesday, encompasses HDTV and nonc ATLANTA -- Cox Communications...
* In what is considered a crucial step toward full deployment of digital TV in the U.S., the Federal Communications Commission ruled that cable operators must carry broadcasters' digital signals to all basic-cable subscribers. The development of di * In what is considered a...
Industry groups last Thursday asked the FCC to condition approval of the merger of AT&T and TCI on strict requirements for retransmission of broadcasters' digital signals. The NAB and the Consumer Electronics Manufacturers Association said the Industry groups last Thursday asked the FCC...
MetroCast Cablevision customers want to see their beloved Red Sox play baseball in HDTV. But the small operator claims Viacom Inc. won't let it carry the digital signals for its two Boston stations, in effect stalling the DTV transition. Metr ...
After a four-year battle, Denver TV stations have been granted approval to build a tower on Lookout Mountain to provide over-the-air digital signals. Denver is the only top-30 market not yet offering over-the-air DTV. After a four-year battle, Denver TV stations have...
Public TV stations should win cable carriage for multicast digital signals, regardless of whether regulators grant that right to commercial outlets, said the Association for Public Television Stations. As the FCC struggles to decide whether to expa Public TV stations should win cable carriage...
Is AM, Digital Fiber Problem Soluable? SNOWMASS, Colo. - Engineers here debated the viability of transmitting analog video and digital signals on the same fiber when using optical amplifiers. The difference in thinking - with important...
WASHINGTON - Members of the Senate and House commerce committees late last week worked out a schedule for broadcasters to return their analog channels to the federal government after stations convert to digital signals. The compromise gives broad WASHINGTON - Members of...
WASHINGTON -- A Southern California TV station has been ordered to continue its analog broadcast transmission, even though it wanted to shift to all-digital broadcasting, effective Jan. 1. KVMD in Twentynine Palms, Calif., was poised to become WASHINGTON --...
The long road to establishing permanent rules for cable carriage of broadcasters' digital signals may be near the end. FCC chairman Michael Powell has put digital must-carry rules at the top of his media priority lists and is currently working with The long road...
WASHINGTON - Federal regulators last week postponed for several months a decision on whether cable operators are required to carry the digital signals of TV stations. The Federal Communications Commission sidestepped that issue in adopting rules WASHINGTON - Federal regulators last...
Emmis Television has fired the latest, and loudest, shot in its campaign to get cash for its DTV signals. The TV-station group pulled the digital signal of its Omaba, Neb., CBS affiliate, KMTVTV, off the local Cox-owned cable system. The signal c Emmis Television...
WASHINGTON -- Hoping to free up broadcaster-occupied spectrum for use by advanced wireless-service providers, the Federal Communications Commission is promising mandatory cable carriage of broadcasters' digital signals as an incentive to terminate WASHINGTON -- Hoping to free up broadcaster-occupied spectrum for use...
The FCC last week granted Fox Television's request to let some UHF stations transmit digital signals at the same strength allowed to VHF outlets. UHF stations' digital broadcasts currently are limited to 200 kw (versus the 1,000 kw permitted for VH The FCC last...
The National Association of Broadcasters has apparently retreated from its longstanding position that cable operators are required to carry both analog and digital TV signals during the transition to digital-only broadcasting. A one-page stat The National Association of...
Like scorpions in a bottle, cable operators and broad-cast-TV networks are gingerly searching for peaceful coexistence as the commercially and politically intricate world of digital TV unfolds. Within the next 18 months, NBC, ABC, CBS and Fox have Like scorpions in a bottle,...
WASHINGTON -- A California TV station planning to surrender its analog license this month is having trouble securing digital-signal carriage on some Time Warner Cable systems in the Los Angeles market. The dispute could become an important fed WASHINGTON...
TED HEARN ANAHEIM, CALIF. - With programming networks promising to go digital by the end of 1998, the Federal Communications Commission is about to launch a rulemaking that could require cable operators to carry both analog and digital TV signals TED HEARN...
PBS, Time Warner do carriage deal; interactive TV isn't part of it Public broadcasting stations have completed a carriage deal with Time Warner Cable, with 132 PBS member stations signing on. Most of the deal's details...
WASHINGTON -- It appears that at least one big TV-station owner - Paxson Communications Corp. -- wants some quick answers on digital must-carry. Frustrated by inaction by federal regulators and hostility from the cable industry, Paxson has fi ...
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