Ad Hoc Committee on Television Broadcast Ancillary Signals: Joint Committee for Intersociety Coordination Interim Report No. 1, 15 September 1973: To the Federal Communications Commission, Filed by the National Association of Broadcasters

Abstract

This report is being submitted at this time to the Federal Communications Commission with a twofold purpose: (1) as a progress report on the work of the Ad Hoc Committee on Television Broadcast Ancillary Signals, a relatively new industry committee that has been charged by the Joint Committee for Intersociety Coordination (JCIC) <sup xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">1</sup> with a study of the overall question of “ancillary” television broadcast signals, i.e., signals intended to be “piggybacked” on the program signal, to be used for a variety of special purposes; and (2) to provide the Commission with new information and recommendations developed in the course of the Committee's studies which may be of some help to the Commission in its resolution of currently pending rule making matters which involve many of the special signals which are included within the Committee's study. Section A deals with the progress report; Section B covers the recommendations of the Committee, based on its studies to date, on matters relating to ancillary signals which are pending at the Commission, but which as yet are unresolved.