Re: Hub TV in Western Mass....

["Dan Billings" <dib9@gwi.net>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Laurence" <mlaurence@mindspring.com>
To: "Joseph Pappalardo" <joepappalardo2001@yahoo.com>
Cc: <boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org>
Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2001 1:41 AM
Subject: Re: Hub TV in Western Mass....

> A western Mass. lawmaker wants to force local cable companies to carry
> Boston TV stations, because he says the local stations don't air enough
> news to protect the safety of his constituents.  Specifically they
> didn't carry a speech by Acting Gov. Swift in the beginning of October.

If the lawmaker wants to pass a state law to force the cable companies to
carry Boston TV stations, the cable companies could probably argue
successfully in court that the federal most-carry rules have preempted the
field and the states can't pass laws regulating what stations cable
companies carry.

-- Dan Billings, Bowdoinham, Maine