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FCC Extends Freeze on Cable TV Revenues: The Federal Communications Commission extended the freeze, due to expire Feb. 15, for three months to give itself and the industry more time to deal with pending changes in rate regulations. “In the absence of this freeze, cable operators could increase their revenues” while the commission completes its pending reconsideration of rate regulations, the agency said. The FCC is expected to consider changes later this month to the sweeping rate rules that took effect in September. The commission imposed the freeze in April to prevent cable companies from boosting rates before those regulations took effect.