The Davis Square Community

The FCC (and possibly franchise agreement) require that cable companies dropping analog channels continue to broadcast locals (over the air) channels in at least Standard Definition, which RCN is doing. There's no requirement for High Def from the FCC, you'd have to read Somerville's franchise agreement to see the language in it. ClearQAM is not automatically High Def (I'm sure you know it, but others might not)