[mythtv-users] Damn you Time Warner

[Brad Fuller]

On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 1:58 PM, Brian Wood <beww at beww.org> wrote:

>  > Or put another way, are they *required* to carry ALL OTA stations?
>
>  Assuming it is a "significantly viewed" local station, the station has
>  two options:
>
>  They can insist that the cable company carry their signal, and the
>  cable company must comply (there are exceptions for systems with
>  limited channel capacity, which is very few today).
>
>  They can require the cable company to pay a fee to the station in
>  order to carry their signal, which the cable system is then free to
>  not do.

not do what? Not pay the fee? Or not carry the station's signal?

>
>  Generally smaller independent stations choose the first option, and
>  major network affiliates go for the second.

Hmmm... no way that average dumb citizens can get involved and
insisting the cable company carry the station?