Speedvision and Outdoor Life Networks last week reiterated their request that the FCC postpone a program-access complaint filed by satellite broadcaster Echostar.

Broadcasting & Cable, March, 1999

Speedvision and Outdoor Life Networks last week reiterated their request that the FCC postpone a program-access complaint filed by satellite broadcaster Echostar. The cable networks said regulators should take no action on Echostar's complaint until a federal court rules on a breach of contract case they have pending against the direct broadcast satellite provider.

The networks revoked Echostar's right to transmit their signals in December, claiming that the DBS provider failed to abide by its contract. Echostar's petition to the FCC is "a strategic and political move to divert the networks' time, energy and resources away" from the court case, the cable channels said.