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Broadcasting & Cable, March, 1999 by Albiniak, Paige
Parrying DirecTV thrust, judge orders cut-off of satellite TV distant signals to proceed DirecTV failed last week in an 11th-hour attempt to continue to deliver illegally imported CBS and Fox feeds to satellite TV subscribers past Sunday's court ordered cut-off. A Miami federal court ordered the cut-off to proceed as scheduled--but Congress could make it a short-lived ruling.
At issue is how to determine what is an acceptable TV picture and how to predict such without physically going to each questionable household to perform a $150 test of signal strength and picture quality. The law says that if half the households in the outer portion, or Grade B contour, of the broadcast signal can get a mostly clear signal half the time, then that area is...
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