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`Must-Carry' Trash TV.(Brief Article)
Thomas W. Hazlett, "Digitizing `Must-Carry' Under Turner Broadcasting v. FCC (1997)," in The Supreme Court Economic Review (2000 annual), University of Chicago Press, 5720 S. Woodlawn Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60637.
In 1997 the Supreme Court ruled that cable companies must carry all over-the-air broadcast stations on their cable systems. In casting the decisive vote, Justice Stephen Breyer stated these "must-carry" rules were necessary in order to preserve a "rich mix of over-the-air programming." American Enterprise Institute scholar Hazlett disagrees, arguing that must-carry results in cable TV viewers having fewer, poorer choices.
Many of the low-power broadcast stations that cable systems are forced to carry are not bold, independent voices, but home-shopping channels. To carry them, cable systems have to drop low-rated, mostly public affairs related channels. About 10 million consumers have lost access to all or part of C-SPAN and C-SPAN2 since Congress first imposed "must-carry" rules in the 1992 Cable Act. Also affected are state counterparts to C-SPAN, such as Michigan Government ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, `Must-Carry' Trash TV.(Brief Article)