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LAS VEGAS -(Dow Jones)- Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin on Tuesday suggested that he wants to force cable companies to carry multiple digital programs from broadcasters, stirring up an issue that is a long-standing source of tension. "One of the reasons why I think it was a real missed opportunity for the commission to have not addressed multicast carriage in such a way that it would have allowed broadcasters to produce multicast broadcasting in a digital era and having all of those signals carried by the cable companies is that would have provided for an increase in the...

XXXXX DRUDGE REPORT XXXXX MON JUNE 14, 2004 18:00:24 ET XXXXX CBS RADIO HEAD ORDERS 'MUST CARRY' TO STATIONS FOR CLINTON BOOK SPECIAL **Exclusive** Move over Rush Limbaugh! Bill Clinton is set to hit the talkradio waves with a live special promoting his new book -- one that CBS has ordered a "must carry" directive for all of its news affiliates, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned. MORE Each and every one of CBS's news and talk stations will be required to take the Clinton book radio special, now scheduled for next 6 PM ET Thursday -- whether local programming management...