Taxation, Regionalization and Pole Attachments: A Comparison of State Cable Television Policies

摘要

Policy outputs evolving from day-to-day administration of state cable television statutes and laws are examined in three issue areas: the tax environment in both regulating and non-regulating states; regionalization through line extension, interconnection, districting and case-by-case adjudication; and the pole attachments issue, including a history of state and federal involvement, the 1978 California pole statute, and implications of the 1978 federal legislation. The three studies are assessed in relation to several cross-cutting questions: (1) the extent of administrative flexibility in implementing state statutes; (2) the degree of convergence or divergence in policy approaches among states; and (3) the changing nature of state involvement in cable. (Copyright (c) 1978, Konrad K. Kalba.)