PROPOSED RULES: Cable television systems—; Consumer electronics equipment and cable systems; compatibility,
Published: 2000-04-27
The Federal Communications Commission has adopted a Notice of
Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) on compatibility between cable television
systems and consumer electronics equipment. The NPRM is designed to
resolve outstanding compatibility issues, in particular requirements
for labeling digital television (DTV) receivers to describe their
capabilities to
RULES: Cable Television Consumer Protection and Competition Act of 1992—; Horizontal ownership limits; stay lifted,
Published: 2000-06-08
This document announces that the Commission's voluntarily-
imposed stay of the cable horizontal ownership rules was lifted on May
19, 2000 and that the cable horizontal ownership rules became effective
on May 19, 2000.
PROPOSED RULES: Satellite Home Viewer Act; implementation—; Broadcast signal carriage issues,
Published: 2000-06-30
This document proposes to implement certain aspects of the
Satellite Home Viewer Improvement Act of 1999, which was enacted on
November 29, 1999. Among other things, the act authorizes satellite
carriers to add more local and national broadcast programming to their
offerings and seeks to place satellite carriers on an equal footing
with cable
PROPOSED RULES: Cable television systems—; Navigation devices; commercial availability,
Published: 2000-09-28
This document seeks comments regarding rules adopted to
implement Section 629 of the Communications Act. Section 304 of the
1996 Telecommunications Act, which became law on February 5, 1996,
added Section 629 to the Communications Act. Section 629 concerns the
commercial availability of navigation devices. This document may result
in information
