when analog TV signals end

[Garrett Wollman]

<<On Thu, 05 Jul 2007 12:06:35 -0600, "Sid Schweiger" <sid@wrko.com> said:

> As far as I know, the pertinent rule is 47 CFR §76.57, which states
> in part that cable-channel assignments for must-carry stations in a
> community are up to the station or may be mutually agreed upon by
> both the station and the cable operator

The Cable Act of 1994 had more-specific language:

	Each signal carried in fulfillment of the carriage obligations
	of a cable operator under this section shall be carried on the
	cable system channel number on which the local commercial
	television station is broadcast over the air, or on the
	channel on which it was carried on July 19, 1985, or on the
	channel on which it was carried on January 1, 1992, at the
	election of the station, or on such other channel number as is
	mutually agreed upon by the station and the cable operator.
	(47 USC 5.534)

I suspect the Commission has discretion to modify this standard.

-GAWollman