Tuesday, March 01, 2005
Stevens Supports Cable-Indecency Law
for our interests, the must carry proposal is interesting
Stevens Supports Cable-Indecency Law
By Ted Hearn
Multichannel News
3/1/2005 11:56 AM
Senate Commerce Committee chairman Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) said Tuesday that he will support legislation that applies broadcast-indecency rules to cable and requires cable to carry multiple digital-broadcast signals if the extra channels are public-service-related.
Stevens said cable content is riddled with filth and there is no reason why Congress can't include cable within the indecency rules.
"I'm going to meet with the cable people early next month, and I intend to tell them that," said Stevens, who wants to include cable-indecency provisions in a digital-TV-transition bill or in a much broader bill rewriting telecommunications statutes.
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