
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: MONDAY, October 11, 1993                   TAG: 9310130048
SECTION: NATL/INTL                    PAGE: NF-1   EDITION: METRO 
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SO?

If you've been seeing cable television ads on TV and wondering what they're all about, here, briefly, is the story:

A law - the Cable Act of 1992 - had given broadcasters, such as WDBJ (Channel 7) and WSLS (Channel 10), the right to ask cable companies for payment for rebroadcasting their signals. Cable companies pay for other channels, like ESPN, but don't pay for the local channels.

Since June, cable systems and broadcasters were figuring out ways of being paid. The deadline for them to come to an agreement was Wednesday and some worried that if they didn't make a deal the local channels would be dropped from the cable systems.

All the TV stations and the cable companies in the Roanoke Valley came to a solution before the deadline, and local TV stations will not be cut from cable systems.

by CNB