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Chart 5

AT&T BIS-NBC RETRANSMISSION CONSENT AGREEMENT FRAMEWORK

DMA Rank of Fox Owned and Operated Television Station where AT&T BIS Has Cable Systems Market Number of AT&T BIS Subscribers that Will Receive Fox's Digital Programming
1 New York 14,000
2 Los Angeles 344,914
3 Chicago 1,610,886
4 Philadelphia 182,669
7 Dallas/Fort Worth 451,745
8 Washington 114,800
16 Miami 213,667
27 Hartford 250,000
39 Birmingham, AL 65,457
Total AT&T BIS subscribers in NBC O&O markets 3,248,138
Total AT&T BIS subscribers in NBC affiliates markets 7,069,978
Total MediaOne subscribers that will become AT&T BIS subscribers if AT&T's pending acquisition of MediaOne is approved by regulators 5,600,000
Total AT&T BIS subscribers that will eventually receive NBC's digital programming 16,900,000

 
   
  • Assuming AT&T's acquisition of MediaOne meets with regulatory approval, and once AT&T BIS reaches retransmission consent agreements with NBC affiliate stations, over 16.9 million AT&T BIS subscribers will have access to NBC's digital programming.

    Sources: A.C. Nielsen, Cable Online Data Exchange (CODE) database, data as of September 1999; Elizabeth A. Rathbun, The Top 25 Television Groups, Broadcasting & Cable, April 19, 1999, at 38-58; Paul Kagan Associates, Cable TV Investor, August 20, 1999, at 10-11.

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