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...favor of a proposal to allow cable operators to pick up signals from as many distant broadcast-TV stations as they wish. Currently, there is in most cities a limit of two-so that a cable operator in Peoria, Ill., say, may show its viewers programs from stations in Chicago and Milwaukee that it thinks may interest them, but no more. If the FCC's proposal is adopted as a formal rule, the cable operator will be able to add programs from stations in Indianapolis, Sioux City, Iowa, and several other points. Moreover, it will not need...
Another source of programming for basic cable is the superstations-independent broadcast-TV stations that also lease space on Satcom, whose signals bounce to the earth stations of cable systems all over the country. At present there are four: WTCG in Atlanta, WOR in New York, WON in Chicago and KTVU in the San Francisco-Oakland area. They and their cable customers should benefit especially from the FCC'S proposal last week that cable operators be permitted to pick up as many signals as they like from anywhere, and a companion proposal that cable companies be permitted...
Cable operators do face some serious obstacles to further growth. The cost of wiring major cities, where cables cannot be strung from poles but must be run underground, is extremely high (as much as $100,000 a mile). Partly for that reason, Chicago does not yet have a cable system and Manhattan is the only one of New York City's five boroughs where viewers can watch cable...
...because it is indeed a criticism of our policy, just to lay one more strand of complexity before you. I would like to quote from a letter that has just recently come from a man called Howard Shomer, who was formerly a dean of the Divinity School at Chicago and now is head of the Social Responsibility in Investments for the United Church Boards in the United Church of Christ. He says, he's writing to Tony Lewis of the New York Times, who as you know devoted two articles to this subject. He says, "I wonder if you have...