FCC wants to extend cable's viewability mandates.(QUICK HITS: WASHINGTON)(Federal Communications Commission)(Brief article)

WASHINGTON -- In a notice of proposed rulemaking last week, the Federal Communications Commission suggested it needed to extend its cable analog-carriage mandate for another three years, and more definitively proposed extending its waiver of the HD carriage mandate for smaller cable operators for three more years as well.

In the rulemaking proposal, the FCC asked if it should extend the mandate that cable operators deliver all TV stations' digital signals in analog format to analog customers or, alternatively, make sure all its customers have the equipment to view a digital signal.

It may be in the form of a question, but the FCC …