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Industry: Email Alert RSS FeedSat TV gets closer to local.(Brief Article)
Broadcasting & Cable, May, 1999 by Albiniak, Paige
The Senate last week unanimously approved legislation that would allow satellite TV companies to offer local broadcast signals, which should allow them to compete more effectively with cable. The bill requires satellite companies to carry all the local signals in all the markets they serve by Jan 1, 2002, a deadline the satellite industry would like to see pushed back.
Under the proposed terms, satellite companies will have little more than two years to comply with the full "must carry" requirement in the markets they are serving. Broadcasters are unlikely to agree with any change in that deadline, however. The House earlier this month passed similar legislation 422-1. The two bills will now go to a conference meeting of the House and Senate,...
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