Claims Operators' Digitization Is Making Public, Educational Stations Hard To Find
By Linda Haugsted -- Multichannel News, 10/2/2008 11:56:00 AM

The House Appropriations Financial Services and General Services subcommittee this week asked the Federal Communications Commission to investigate the treatment of public, educational and government channels by both incumbent and new providers—especially AT&T.

The subcommittee, on Sept. 17, held a hearing on the status of PEG operations. In testimony then, FCC Media Bureau Chief Monica Shah Desai said that a complaint would prompt FCC action on issues raised at the hearing.

According to the letter sent Sept. 30 to the FCC, subcommittee members are concerned about incumbent operators who are digitizing and moving PEG channels from the lowest numbered channels to slots as high as Ch. 999.


House Committee Asks FCC To InvestigateReassignment ofPEG Channels - 10/2/2008 11:56:00 AM - Multichannel News