Must carry: must settle for DBS. (direct broadcast satellite, must carry regulation)

Broadcasting & Cable, April, 1998 by Albiniak, Paige

If it were up to the House Commerce Committee, EchoStar would get a law this year that would allow it to retransmit local signals in local markets without full must-carry requirements. A bill that would grant direct broad-cast satellite (DBS) companies the ability to do "local-into-local," as long as they carried all the local stations in their markets, passed out of the House Judiciary Sub-committee on Courts and Intellectual Property last month.

An amendment from Rep. Rick Boucher (DVa.) to stay an increase in satellite compulsory copyright fees effectively killed the bill in that committee because of opposition by copyright holders, led by the Motion Picture Association of America(MPAA). But the Commerce Committee_concerned about bringing competition for...

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