"WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Federal Communications Commission Chairman Michael Powell has proposed rejecting a request that cable companies be required to carry all the digital signals offered by a broadcast television station, sources close to the matter said on Wednesday. Current law permits a television broadcaster to have its primary signal carried on cable, but with the advent of digital signals broadcasters can now offer multiple channels, known as multicasting. Some had requested that cable be required to carry those additional streams. "
Editor: While this and other posts to the blog are not directly related to most college stations, there is a tie to some and a general interest about how stations will fare in the future.
