TV carriage elections due Oct. 1

Time for commercial TV stations to choose!

Every three years, commercial television stations must choose between retransmission consent and mandatory carriage, also known as must-carry status, for the carriage of their broadcast signal on cable and satellite systems in their market.

This upcoming election will determine how TV stations will be carried on cable and satellite systems in their markets for the next three-year period, which runs from Jan. 1, 2009, to Dec. 31, 2011.

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