FCC slaps dish's double-up plan.(U.S. Federal Communications Commission, EchoStar Communications Corp.)(Brief Article)
Multichannel News, April, 2002 by Hearn, Ted
EchoStar Communications Corp. broke the law by requiring subscribers to obtain a second dish to receive some, but not all, local-TV signals in a market, the Federal Communications Commission ruled Thursday. EchoStar adopted the two-dish plan in January to comply with a federal law requiring a direct-broadcast satellite provider to carry all local TV stations in any market in which it opted to transmit just one over-the-air broadcaster.
It called the move an interim step until a new satellite launched to boost channel capacity was operational. Even though EchoStar made the second dish available to consumers for free, the FCC's Media Bureau ruled that the two-dish plan violated several anti-discrimination provisions of the Satellite Home Viewer...
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