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<DIV>US Consolidated Federal Regulations 47 CFR 76.56(d)(1)
at:<BR><BR><A
href="http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/cfr_2007/octqtr/pdf/47cfr76.56.pdf">http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/cfr_2007/octqtr/pdf/47cfr76.56.pdf</A><BR><BR><BR>(d)
Availability of Signals. (1) Local commercial television stations <BR>carried
in fulfillment of the requirements of this section shall be <BR>provided to
every subscriber of a cable system. Such signals shall be <BR>viewable via
cable on all television receivers of a subscriber which are <BR>connected to a
cable system by a cable operator or for which a cable <BR>operator provides a
connection.<BR><BR>If the OP wants to raise some hell with the supplier he can
refer them <BR>to 76.1614 which according to the note on 76.56 says: Section
76.1614 <BR>provides response requirements for a cable operator who receives a
<BR>written request to identify its must-carry signals.<BR><BR>I read this
portion of 47 CFR 76 as requiring unencrypted broadcast of <BR>'must-carry'
stations. Must-carry stations are the local broadcast <BR>stations with the
local area for the cable system. And since the local <BR>station DOES
broadcast in digital OTA HD, then you should get digital HD <BR>on the cable,
notwithstanding that otherwise, you receive analog only
<BR>signals.<BR><BR>But they might disagree. THEN write to the
FCC.<BR><BR>Geoff<BR><BR></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>