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Article: SENATE PANEL PASSES BILL TO AID RURAL SATELLITE TV VIEWERS.
- Article from:
- Satellite News
- Article date:
- March 15, 1999
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Satellite TV providers would be able to offer distant network signals until Dec. 31, 1999, under a bill (S. 303) sponsored by Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) that the Senate Commerce Committee he chairs passed March 10.
The bill would allow satellite TV viewers in rural areas to keep their distant network signals temporarily to allow broadcasters and the satellite industry to agree on a broader legislative solution. McCain is trying to offer such a compromise in his bill by allowing satellite TV providers to deliver network signals, while giving broadcasters a victory by requiring those same satellite TV providers to carry all local channels (SN, March 8).
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