January 13, 1998    
                              

SEPARATE STATEMENT OF COMMISSIONER HAROLD W. FURCHTGOTT ROTH

In re:  Annual Assessment of the Status of Competition in Markets for the Delivery of Video
Programming

     I am pleased to join in today's action, the issuance of the Commission's Annual
Assessment of the Status of Competition in Markets for the Delivery of Video Programming.

     I believe that the report does a fine job of detailing for Congress the current state of
competitive affairs in the video delivery industries, as required by section 628(g) of the
Communications Act.  I wish to make clear that while I therefore support the report generally,
I do not endorse the specific legislative proposals, save those based on section 713(f) of the
Act, that it contains.

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