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  • US FCC Head Suggests Expanding 'Must-Carry' Rules (on Cable Television)

    04/25/2006 8:33:23 PM PDT · by HAL9000 · 9 replies · 431+ views
    DOW JONES NEWSWIRES (excerpt) ^ | April 25, 2006 | Siobhan Hughes
    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...