World News Tonight (ABC) - 1997-09-17 - 2 of 2

Name: World News Tonight (ABC) - 1997-09-17 - 2 of 2
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[0:00] In recent weeks, some broadcasters have

[0:01] said that highdeinition TV can't earn

[0:04] back the huge cost of new digital

[0:06] equipment. Instead, they've hinted they

[0:08] might use only part of this new digital

[0:10] frequency for their broadcast signals

[0:12] and use the rest of the signal to send

[0:14] out other video or text. And some of

[0:16] this data, like electronic yellow pages,

[0:19] stock quotes, they could charge for. At

[0:22] today's hearing, one powerful committee

[0:24] chairman said if broadcasters back away

[0:26] from highde television, it would cost

[0:28] them. But it is up to Congress to make

[0:32] certain that American taxpayers receive

[0:34] something in return for the nonHDTV use

[0:38] of that valuable public airway.

[0:40] >> For their part, broadcasters assured the

[0:43] committee they would keep their promise.

[0:45] >> Broadcasters have made a compact with

[0:48] the Congress concerning highdefinition

[0:50] television. We will meet our

[0:53] commitments. We know for certain that

[0:55] broadcasters will begin transmitting

[0:57] digital television signals in some major

[0:59] markets next year. What precisely will

[1:02] we be seeing? Nobody really has a clue.

[1:05] Jeff Greenfield, ABC News, New York. On

[1:08] Wall Street today, the Dow Jones

[1:09] Industrials lost 9 and a half points to

[1:11] close at 78.886. On the NASDAQ market,

[1:14] stocks lost about two points. When we

[1:16] come back, the new world of HMO, some of

[1:18] the extras you may be able to get.

[1:25] You are what you eat.

[1:29] You are also what you feel, [music]

[1:33] what you think,

[1:35] what you do.

[1:37] You are what [music] you say and what

[1:39] you hear.

[1:40] >> Oh my.

[1:41] >> What you give and what you take. Take

[1:45] Nat