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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

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