roundtable: FCC Extends ATV Proceedings

roundtable: FCC Extends ATV Proceedings

FCC Extends ATV Proceedings

Benton Foundation (benton@benton.org)
Wed, 11 Oct 1995 17:24:40 -0400 

Date: Wed, 11 Oct 1995 17:24:40 -0400
Message-Id: <v02110113aca1adbb6e75@[204.245.149.10]>
To: benton-compolicy@cdinet.com, roundtable@cni.org
From: benton@benton.org (Benton Foundation)
Subject: FCC Extends ATV Proceedings


The FCC announced today that it has extended the deadline to receive
comments concerning spectrum allocation and the transition to advanced
television.  The new deadlines are:

        November 15 for comments
        January 12 for reply to comments

These proceedings will define the future of broadcast television and 
the nature of the public interest standard for broadcasting in the 21st
century. These proceedings will shape the transition from traditional
analog broadcasting, NTSC, to digital, Advanced Television (ATV), a
transition that the U. S. is already committed to. These proceedings 
allow for public input from all sectors in the creation of rules that 
will govern the television industry, how broadcasters' current spectrum 
allocation will be recovered once the transition to ATV is complete, and 
how that spectrum will be reallocated in the future.

The Benton Foundation has two summaries of these proceedings available in
both print and electronic formats.  Working Paper #13 "Pretty Pictures or
Pretty Profits" was released earlier today and "Advanced Television and
Spectrum Allocation" was released in August.  Please visit our World Wide
Web Site at:

   http://cdinet.com/benton


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