The FCC approved a direct broadcast satellite rulemaking on what DBS providers...
The FCC approved a direct broadcast satellite rulemaking on what DBS providers must do to distribute TV stations to customers who live in another market, and is close to approving a second item that also starts the implementation of this…
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year’s Satellite Television and Extension and Localism Act (CD July 22 p9), agency officials said Thursday. The items hadn’t been publicly released but that may happen soon. By a unanimous vote, commissioners approved a Media Bureau order asking what DBS companies must do, such as carrying the local broadcaster’s HD signal, when they also carry a distant broadcaster of the same network affiliation in a given market, the officials said. Also likely to get a 5-0 vote is a related Office of Engineering and Technology rulemaking that asks about signal strength tests for DBS subscribers who want to get distant stations to find whether they'd be able to receive by a terrestrial antenna the signal from the local broadcaster of the same affiliation as the far away one, the officials said. Some commissioners had voted for the item as of Thursday and the rest are expected to approve Friday, they said. A Media Bureau spokeswoman declined to comment on the pending items.