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Wayne's World's of the world, beware. If Charter has its way, all our favorite public access cable shows are gonna be in trouble. Charter, one of the countries bigger cable carriers, is raising eyebrows across the country with two - count 'em, two - questionable moves.

First, in North Carolina, Charter wants to cancel McDowell County's information channel and combine it with the county's government channel.  It wants to do this to add three HD stations. Not a great PR move, but not nearly as bad as what they're proposing in Reno, Nevada.

Charter is plotting to pull four public access channels to gain the bandwidth they need for twelve digital channels. There goes Wayne's World. George Jostlin of Charter stated that a "majority of consumers are calling it on a daily basis and asking for more HD/digital programming." Reno begs to differ. They plan to sue Charter if the issue isn't resolved.

Pulling analog channels to make room for HD sounds like a good read, but the reality is that all our analog channels are going away soon, and something has to give. The digital pipeline isn't as unlimited as we like to think it is. Party on. -Leslie Shapiro

Via EngadgetHD

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