Talk:Cable television in the United States
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[edit] Substitution of stations
There should be something on here from the 1960s or early 1970s about "substitution". TV stations in smaller markets would require the cable television company to substitute the station's signal for a more distant signal carrying the same program, in order to protect the sales the local station made for advertising.
Canada used this starting in the early 1970s, requiring cable television systems to substitute a Canadian station over one or more American stations carrying the same program at the same time, in order to protect the Canadian broadcaster's sales of advertising during the program. For example, if CFPL-TV London was carrying the same program as NBC affiliates, the cable systems in London and region would temporarily distribute CFPL-TV in place of WICU-TV 12 Erie, WKYC 3 Cleveland and WWJ-TV (now WDIV-TV) 4 Detroit. Since the Canadian stations tended to carry more commercials than allowed US stations during prime time, Canadian viewers tended to complain about deleted scenes, and a brief overlay of station breaks at the end of the program time slot.
GBC 22:39, 21 August 2006 (UTC)
There is a problematic link to the Cox Report--wrong report, wrong decade.
[edit] Licensing Freeze
Would it be possible to explain what the television licensing freeze of 1948-1952 was, or link to an rticle about it if there is one? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 172.209.31.91 (talk) 00:26, 19 February 2007 (UTC).
[edit] Number of Cable Providers per Region
I thought there was a regulation that each region could only have 1 cable provider. For instance, Time Warner is the sole provider in manhattan. Is that true?
- No and yes. Manhattan's dual head ends and dual channel plans are a remnant of the 1970s when the northern and southern parts of the island had different companies: Stirling and Teleprompter. They merged and the merged company was later bought by TWC. Jim.henderson 13:24, 31 March 2007 (UTC)
