Shortly after the Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) announced its members had approved a mobile digital television (DTV) standard, known as A/153, which we covered in a recent article, the fight for spectrum ratcheted up a notch to a full-blown debate in front of the Federal Communications Commission. The debate has drawn at least one MSO—Comcast—into the mix. On December 3, 2009, Comcast and General Electric announced a definitive agreement (pending regulatory approval, of course) to transfer a 51% controlling stake in NBC Universal from GE to Comcast, the country's largest cable provider. Aggregating NBC, the broadcast network, along with local TV stations and cable channels, Comcast finds itself in a balancing act, pledging support for broadcast TV and affiliates at a time when some NAB members and OTA broadcasters are advocating that consumers drop cable. Comcast says it will support broadcast TV, and also hopes to see its cable programming assets benefit as a result.