Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!bellcore!rutgers!njin!princeton!udel!rochester!cornell!uw-beaver!tektronix!reed!kamath From: kamath@reed.UUCP (Sean Kamath) Newsgroups: sci.electronics Subject: Re: Supreme Court and cable TV (sigh)(It get's worse) Message-ID: <9454@reed.UUCP> Date: 4 Jun 88 19:28:59 GMT References:<1241@neoucom.UUCP> <10231@sol.ARPA> Reply-To: kamath@reed.UUCP (Sean Kamath) Organization: Reed College, Portland OR Lines: 27 In article <10231@sol.ARPA> ray@cs.rochester.edu (Ray Frank) writes: >In the paper this morning I read that the SC struck down a government >proposal that would require local cable companies to carry all local >stations. What this ultimately will mean is that in the future, your >cable company will not carry your local stations forcing you to use >rabbit ears or some other form of aerial which to me would be a giant >step backwards. > >ray It get's worse. I heard on the news a few days ago that the cable companies will be required to blank out any syndicated show that is airing on the non-cable companies. This means that if reruns of M.A.S.H. are on at 11pm on your local station, and you have cable and TBS runs M.A.S.H. at 6pm, the cable company will require the cable operator to blank out the TBS one, even if it's a completely different episode, running at another time. This is just plain outragous. I'm glad I don't have cable, and I don't really watch T.V. Robin claims my computer is my T.V. set. :-) Sean Kamath -- UUCP: {decvax allegra ucbcad ucbvax hplabs ihnp4}!tektronix!reed!kamath CSNET: reed!kamath@Tektronix.CSNET || BITNET: reed!kamath@PSUVAX1.BITNET ARPA: reed!kamath@PSUVAX1.CS.PSU.EDU US Snail: 3934 SE Boise, Portland, OR 97202-3126 (I hate 4 line .sigs!)