Cable Nets Attack Dual Must Carry

Six cable programming companies filed a brief Wednesday urging a federal appeals court to overturn Federal Communications Commission mandates related to cable operator carriage of digital TV station signals. The cable networks said that they run the risk of being dropped from crowded cable systems because the FCC gave preferential treatment to local TV stations in violation of the First Amendment and a federal administrative law statute. The brief attacked the FCC's decision to require cable carriage of local TV signals in both analog and digital unless the cable systems had converted to all-digital transmission. Because so few cable systems have gone digital, the FCC's order is tantamount to a dual-carriage requirement.
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