‘Quite a number’ of PTV stations have been rejected for retransmissi...
“Quite a number” of PTV stations have been rejected for retransmission/must-carry by EchoStar and DirecTV, according preliminary results of APTS survey. Marilyn Mohrman-Gillis, APTS vp-policy and legal affairs, said more stations had been rejected by EchoStar than by DirecTV.…
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“What we are doing is communicating with the stations and helping them sort this through,” she said. As in case of commercial stations (CD Aug 9 p1), reasons given for turning down stations included quality of signals and substantial duplication of programming with station in same market, she said. APTS staff proposed to meet with FCC Cable Bureau and other officials next week to take up issue after more data are collected, she said. However, APTS has no plans to meet with DBS operators to discuss issue, she said, considering it’s better for local stations to deal directly with DBS providers.