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Article: Colorado Senators calling for Probe in DirecTV feud.(Wayne Allard)(Ken Salazar)
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- Los Angeles Business Journal
- Article date:
- September 11, 2006
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A long-running feud between the nation's two largest satellite television companies has spilled onto the national stage.
Colorado Senators Wayne Allard, a Republican, and Ken Salazar, a Democrat, sent a letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee last week asking it to examine whether El Segundo-based DirecTV Group Inc., which is controlled by News Corp., "has engaged in behavior that would threaten the viability of the satellite TV market."
Colorado is home to EchoStar Communications Corp., provider of DISH Network, DirecTV's main competitor.
The dispute involves a legal battle over the re-transmission of "distant network" channels. Satellite TV ...