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Article: SATELLITE TV CUSTOMERS WON'T LOSE NETWORK SIGNALS JUST YET SETTLEMENT GIVES VIEWERS UNTIL JUNE 30 TO SWITCH.(News)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- March 13, 1999
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Customers of America's largest satellite TV company who aren't entitled to receive CBS, NBC, ABC and Fox programs by satellite will keep getting them that way for a while under a deal announced yesterday.
DirecTV and the National Association of Broadcasters, whose members include the four major broadcast networks, have agreed to settle a lawsuit over which viewers can watch network programs sent to them by satellite.
A federal judge in Miami who has been hearing the copyright dispute would have to approve the deal.
Federal law lets DirecTV and other satellite companies provide customers with ``distant'' network signals - which come from other ...