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RULES: Commission's Cable Horizontal and Vertical Ownership Limits,
Published: 2008-02-29
This document adopts a rule prohibiting cable operators from
owning or having an attributable interest in cable systems serving more
than 30 percent of multichannel video programming subscribers
nationwide. It also eliminates the overbuilder exception, which allowed
cable operators to count against its horizontal limit only those cable
subscribers
PROPOSED RULES: Local Broadcast Signal Carriage Issues and Retransmission Consent Issues,
Published: 2008-05-05
This document seeks comment on the application of the
statutory requirement for nondiscriminatory treatment in carriage of
standard definition (``SD'') and high definition (``HD'') signals. Satellite
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carriers should be required to carry the signals of all local broadcast
stations in HD and SD if they carry the signals of any local
RULES: Leased Commercial Access,
Published: 2008-02-28
In this document, the Commission modifies the leased access
rate formula; adopts customer service obligations that require minimal
standards and equal treatment of leased access programmers with other
programmers; eliminates the requirement for an independent accountant
to review leased access rates; requires annual reporting of leased
access
RULES: Local Broadcast Signal Carriage Issues and Retransmission Consent Issues,
Published: 2008-08-27
In this document, the Commission announces that the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) has approved, for a period of three years,
the information collections associated with the Commission's 2008
Second Report and Order, concerning Carriage of Digital Television
Broadcast Signals. This notice is consistent with the Second Report and
Order,
PROPOSED RULES: Leased Commercial Access,
Published: 2008-02-28
In this document, the Commission seeks comment on the
application of the Commission's revised leased access rate methodology
and maximum allowable leased access rate to programmers that
predominantly transmit sales presentations or program length
commercials.
PROPOSED RULES: Cable Horizontal and Vertical Ownership Limits,
Published: 2008-02-27
This document proposes changes to the cable and broadcast
attribution rules. The cable attribution rules seek to identify those
corporate, financial, partnership, ownership, and other business
relationships that confer on their holders a degree of ownership or
other economic interest, or influence or control over an entity engaged
in the provision
PROPOSED RULES: Review of the Commission's Program Access Rules and Examination of Programming Tying Arrangements,
Published: 2008-02-12
The Media Bureau extends the reply comment deadline on the
Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) on revisions to the Commission's
program access and retransmission consent rules and whether it may be
appropriate to preclude the practice of programmers to tie desired
programming with undesired programming. To facilitate the development
of a thorough
RULES: Carriage of Digital Television Broadcast Signals,
Published: 2008-02-01
This Third Report and Order finalizes the material degradation
requirements adopted by the Commission in 2001, and establishes two
alternative approaches that cable operators may use to meet their
responsibility to ensure that cable subscribers with analog television
sets can continue to view all mustcarry stations after the end of the
DTV
PROPOSED RULES: Carriage of Digital Television Broadcast Signals,
Published: 2008-02-01
While the Third Report and Order resolves the major questions
about material degradation and viewability after the transition, we now
seek comment on a number of related issues which were not specifically
raised in the Second Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking. Now that
the general rules are in place, the Commission believes it is
appropriate
RULES: Digital Audio Broadcasting Systems and Impact on Terrestrial Radio Broadcast Service,
Published: 2008-01-22
This document announces the effective dates of rules published
in the Federal Register. The rules relate to Digital Audio Broadcasting
Systems, and the notification that those entities must provide the
Federal Communications Commission when they commence broadcasting
digital signals.
RULES: Exclusive Service Contracts for Provision of Video Services in Multiple Dwelling Units and Other Real Estate Developments,
Published: 2008-01-07
The Commission's action concerns ``Multiple Dwelling Units''
such as apartment or condominium buildings and centrally managed
residential real estate developments (collectively, ``MDUs''); cable
operators that provide video service in MDUs; and agreements that grant
them the exclusive right to provide video programming service in an
MDU. The
PROPOSED RULES: Exclusive Service Contracts for Provision of Video Services in Multiple Dwelling Units and Other Real Estate Developments,
Published: 2008-01-07
The Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (``Notice'')
solicits comment on whether providers of Direct Broadcast Satellite
(``DBS'') service and Private Cable Operators (``PCOs'') should be
allowed to have exclusive access to socalled Multiple Dwelling Units
(``MDUs,'' such as apartment and condominium buildings). Also, the
Notice considers
RULES: Implementation of Cable Television Consumer Protection and Competition Act of 1992, etc.,
Published: 2008-03-07
The Federal Communications Commission adopted rules revising
the procedures applicable to program access complaint proceedings.
Certain changes to the rules require Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) approval to become effective. This document announces the
effective date of these rules.
RULES: Local Broadcast Signal Carriage Issues and Retransmission Consent Issues,
Published: 2008-05-05
The actions taken in this document represent another step in
the Commission's ongoing efforts to complete the transition from analog
to digital television. In this document, we amend the rules to require
satellite carriers to carry digitalonly stations upon request in
markets in which they are providing any localintolocal service
pursuant to the
