PLANNING STAGES: Lawmakers asked the NCC to propose a new policy, as the system hinders new channel operators and there is no motivation to adjust channel lineupsBy Shelley Shan / Staff reporter
The National Communications Commission (NCC) is at the end of this month to hold a public hearing on a new policy that would require cable systems to use three digits when numbering their channels and to divide the channels into eight blocks based on their content.
Although the nation’s cable systems have been fully digitized since 2020, which should have greatly expanded the number of channels available, the nation’s cable system operators have continued to arrange their channel lineups in the same way as they did on analogue TV. While the operators have divided the channels into blocks based on