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| MSO in Retransmission Consent Agreement | Broadcast Network in Retransmission Consent Agreement | Broadcast Network Owned and Operated Television Stations | Broadcast Network Affiliates | Total Number of Cable Subscribers Expected to Receive Broadcast DTV Signals Under the Retransmission Agreements¹ |
| Time Warner | CBS | 15 | 223 | 12,900,000 |
| AT&T² | FOX | 23³ | 212 | 11,200,000 |
| AT&T² | NBC | 13 | 212 | 11,300,000 |
| Total Number of MediaOne Subscribers in Preexisting Digital Carriage Agreements | 3,300,000 | |||
| Additional MediaOne Subscribers to Digital Retransmission Consent Agreements That Can Be Added Pending Regulatory Approval of Its Acquisition by AT&T | 2,300,000 | |||
| Total | 29,800,000 | |||
¹ The existing retransmission consent agreements are expected to serve as frameworks for retransmission consent agreements between these MSOs and broadcast network affiliates. Therefore, the numbers in this column assume agreements being reached between these MSOs and the broadcast network affiliate stations.
² AT&T numbers include MediaOne. The acquisition, however, is pending regulatory approval.
³ One of Fox's O&Os is operated under a local marketing agreement.
4 The totals represent individual cable subscribers capable of receiving at least one digital signal, and, therefore, AT&T BIS subscribers receiving both the digital signals of Fox and NBC have been counted only once.
Sources: Elizabeth A. Rathbun, Broadcasting & Cable, The Top 25 Television Groups, April 19, 1999, at 38-58; Broadcasting & Cable Yearbook 1998; Paul Kagan Associates, Cable TV Investor, August 20, 1999, at 10-11; In the Matter of Carriage of the Transmissions of Digital Television Broadcast Stations, Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, CS Docket 98-120, FCC 98-153 (released July 10, 1998), Comments of MediaOne, at 8-9.