Communications Commission.(Satellite Broadcasting and Communications Association sends letter to Federal Communications Commission)(Brief Article)
Multichannel News, June, 2001
WASHINGTON -- Program-access laws should be expanded to include cable-owned networks that are delivered by terrestrial means, the direct-broadcast satellite industry said in a June 4 letter to Federal Communications Commission chairman Michael Powell. The Satellite Broadcasting & Communications Association told Powell that cable operators' ability to shift programming from satellite to fiber or microwave represented an evasion" of rules designed to give DBS firms full access to MSOowned programming.
The SBCA called on Powell to recommend that Congress "close this loophole." Under the 1992 Cable Act, cable operators are required to sell their cable networks that are satellite-delivered to DBS. Broadcast-affiliated cable networks, no matter what...
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