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5 * * * * We have attempted to provide some of the flavor of the arguments over CATV. This is probably the most controversial subject now before the Commission. Comments before the Commission (with the exception of NCTA's claim of assistance to ETV stations and its inclusion, in its entirety, of Loren Stone's article in the NAEB Journal * as Exhibit 1 of its Comments) fail to treat in any depth the relationship of ETV to CATV. It seems clear from developments to date that ETV probably should not either oppose or support CATV in its entirety. The issue right now, however, is the narrower one of whether and in what manner CATV should be regulated by the FCC. ETV does have a stake in this matter. CATV is carrying ETV signals. Undoubtedly, it is providing new audiences for ETV and is thus assisting the development of ETV. However, just as ETV could not forever depend on private arrangements with commercial television stations to meet its needs, so ETV cannot depend forever on private arrangements with CATV operators as a substitute for direct ETV service. In fact, the problem is more acute insofar as CATV operators are concerned, since commercial television stations are subject to regulation, and hence must generally abide by programing representations made, whereas CATV operators for the most part are subject to no regulation whatsoever. If CATV is to play an important role in the development of ETV, then it may well be that ETV interests would be well advised to support at least minimal regulation of CATV by the Commission, if only to provide some further assurance that arrangements now gratuitously proffered by CATV operators to ETV stations will not be abruptly modified or discarded at the whim of the CATV operator. In addition, as experience grows with CATV, and its impact, both beneficial and adverse, on ETV is more fully documented, there may be additional reasons why ETV should take a stronger stand, pro or con, on this touchy issue. ♦Stone, Loren, "Community Antenna Television: Its Role in ETV, Journal, March-April, 1964, 23:2, p. 46. NAEB