March 14, 1994


                 Erratum to Cable Regulation Impact Survey


     On February 22, 1994, the Cable Services Bureau released a
final report on the cable rate survey (MM Docket No. 92-226). 
Page 25 of the Cable Regulation Impact Survey Report contained an
error.  By this erratum, insert the attached page 25 in
replacement of the previously released page 25.

     In the first full paragraph of the original page 25 it was
stated that "the total bills for (regulated and non-regulated
services) showed an increase for 30.5% of subscribers."  This
statement is correct for regulated services as reported at page 3
of the survey, and in our original News Release, but the FCC does
not have the information as to the exact number of subscribers
who received increases for their combined services.  Therefore we
are amending that statement to read "the total bills for
(regulated and unregulated services) showed no decline in many
cases."


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     equipment and installation charges.

     On the other hand, the data also suggest reasons why not all subscribers received
reductions in their bills for regulated services and why the total bills (for regulated and
unregulated services) showed no decline in many cases.

     Basic-only subscribers grew from 3.4% of subscribers to 13.4% of all subscribers as
          several operators reduced the number of tiers offered by collapsing higher tiers
          into basic service.  

     The programming component of the charge for basic-only increased 2%.  Generally,
          the increase in the charge for programming was the result of channel lineup
          reconfigurations that moved programming services and channels from upper
          tiers to the basic tier and/or that added channels to the basic tier.  The rate per
          channel for basic-only service decreased by 16.4% because the size of the tier
          increased by nearly 3 channels.

     The charge for basic-only with equipment decreased 5.8% for subscribers with non-
          cable ready TVs due to the heavy equipment component of this subscriber
          profile, but increased 2.5% for basic only subscribers with cable ready TVs.

     In a significant number of instances, operators eliminated one or more CPS tiers in
          some or all of their systems.  The channels on the eliminated tiers were moved
          to the basic tier, to other CPS tiers, or to a la carte, or otherwise were
          eliminated from the system offerings.  The movement of channels from CPS
          tiers to the basic tier contributed to the overall increase in charges for basic
          services.  In several instances, however, increases in the rate per channel
          allowed under the FCC's tier neutral regulations caused the basic service tier
          charge to increase.     

     Generally, operators adopted tiering strategies which seem to contribute
          substantially to sustaining the charges for many subscriber profiles at
          levels fairly comparable to pre-regulation levels.  
     
     The movement of channels from regulated to unregulated service, if it results in a net
          decrease in the number of regulated channels, will increase the permitted
          benchmark rate per channel to a level above what it otherwise would have
          been.