multicasting

[Gregg Lengling]

This guy must have his head in the sand:
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Multicasting by digital-TV stations -- that is, several programming streams, and not just one high-definition-TV signal -- is a hot regulatory issue in Washington, D.C., but not a marketplace reality, according to Comcast Corp. programming vice president Alan Dannenbaum.

Dannenbaum briefed Federal Communications Commission officials last week on digital-TV-transition issues, including multicasting. Despite cable-industry opposition, the FCC is considering a rule that would require cable carriage of multiple digital-TV programming services.

'While some broadcasters are reportedly contemplating multicasting, none that Comcast has encountered are currently doing so, and none has articulated to Comcast any particular plans for the programming that they would wish to have carried,' Dannenbaum told the agency.

Comcast, along with the other major cable operators, is planning to carry broadcast HDTV channels, but the market is looking choppy at the moment.

Dannenbaum told the FCC, 'Some major-market broadcasters are still not yet transmitting digital signals, others have declined to consent to carriage of their signals except in exchange for additional consideration and still others are just not sufficiently interested in the digital transition to pursue discussions regarding carriage on cable systems.'



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Gregg R. Lengling
RCA P61310 61" 16x9
glengling@ameritech.net