In some markets, however, the secondary channel is used for Spanish and other foreign language audio, a potential conflict.
And we have a secondary channel that sells to many hundreds of small companies through a tender process.
In Portland, Ore., the public station moved many "Independent Lens" films to its secondary channel.
But broadcasters pointed out that in some markets the secondary channel is already used for Spanish and other foreign-language audio.
The rules required that network-affiliated broadcasters in the top 25 television markets use the secondary channel for roughly four hours a week, either as prime-time or children's programming, beginning this spring.
The Mississippi threatened to divert permanently into this secondary channel, inundating the lower Atchafalaya, bypassing New Orleans, and rendering useless millions of dollars of flood-control works and docks.
The rules, which were adopted by a 3-to-2 vote, will require that network-affiliated broadcasters in the top 25 television markets use the secondary channel for roughly four hours per week, either as prime-time or children's programming, beginning in the spring of 2002.
The secondary channel does not require qualification.
"A public broadcaster could offer that on a secondary channel in addition to its regular programming.
Other ideas include programming the secondary channel in languages other than English.
A discussion of the choice of dimension for the secondary channel is given.
