DTV News for 6-26-2006

[Lee Wood]

DTV News for 6-26-2006
967 Days Until the Scheduled End of Analog Television Broadcasting

FCC Sets Requirements for July 1 "Use-It-Or-Lose-It" Deadline
(TV Technology)
http://www.tvtechnology.com/dlrf/one.php?id=1310

Martin Sounds Retreat on Must-Carry
Pulls Issue From Meeting Agenda
(Multichannel News)
http://www.multichannel.com/article/CA6 ... op+Stories

D.C. Follies: Martin's Flip-Flop
On Father's Day, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin, in a surprise move, suddenly yanked the red-hot potato of multicast must-carry from the agenda for the agency's monthly meeting planned for last Wednesday.
(TVWeek)
http://www.tvweek.com/article.cms?articleId=30081

Multicast Madness
When television stations owned by NBC, CBS and other broadcasters first began transmitting digital-TV signals in 1998, the concept of