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Article: SATELLITE TV GROUPS FACE CONGRESSIONAL BATTLE WITH BROADCASTERS.
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- Satellite News
- Article date:
- November 23, 1998
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Satellite industry officials are plotting to take on one of the most powerful lobbying organizations in Washington during the next session of Congress in a battle that would determine whether 1 million rural satellite TV viewers will be able to receive network signals.
The confrontation became inevitable last week when FCC officials released a notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM), acknowledging that they lacked statutory authority to protect more than about 15 percent of affected satellite TV subscribers from losing their network signals Feb. 28.
The influential National Association of Broadcasters successfully blocked the passage of legislation aimed at ...