MCN Newswire: Charter's Spectrum Switchover Nearly Complete; Trump Budget Axes Public Broadcasting Funding; Verizon Fios TV Gets CBS Streaming Rights in Carriage Deal
WHY THIS MATTERS:The Charlotte Spectrum rollout, which began on March 14, will involve about 500,000 homes in that market, and Upstate New York and New England will make the switch later this month, Charter said.
WHY THIS MATTERS:The administration's budget being released today would end "federal involvement with the Corporation for Public Broadcasting," OMB director Mick Mulvaney said, as it makes dollar-for-dollar cuts to programs he described as indefensible.