HITN Facing the Loss of DirecTV Carriage.(DirecTV plans droping Hispanic Information and Telecommunications Network Inc.)
Multichannel News, April, 2007 by Moss, Linda
By Linda Moss DirecTV plans to drop the Hispanic Information and Telecommunications Network, a Spanish-language public-interest channel, at the end of June, the satellite provider said. DirecTV disclosed plans to replace HITN with another Spanish-language service in a 23-page filing last week to the Federal Communications Commission, regarding Liberty Media's proposed $11 billion acquisition of News Corp.'s 38.4% stake in the nation's largest satellite provider.
(For more, see Policy, page 26.) DirecTV has carried HITN as part of its public-interest obligation as a satellite provider, under federal law, to set aside 4% of its channel capacity exclusively for non-commercial programming of an educational or informational nature. HITN is a...
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