Dotcast should be willing to accept conditional FCC approval of i...
Dotcast should be willing to accept conditional FCC approval of its datacasting technology if it’s “confident that its technology will not cause additional interference,” Fox TV Stations group said in ex parte filing at Commission. Conditional grant “will simply…
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require the company to vindicate its claims” and “ensure that both analog and digital television stations are protected from the potential risk of interference,” Fox said. Dotcast said in separate ex parte filing that PBS had concluded that its datacasting system offered “a valuable opportunity for PBS member stations to provide revenue-producing ancillary services on their analog channels.” Dotcast said about 100 PBS stations, reaching more than 80% of U.S. TV households, agreed to make analog capacity available for Dotcast services. However, it said “the time period in which to benefit from Dotcast’s innovative technology is short and growing shorter each day” because of approaching transition to DTV.