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Article: A subsidy by any other name: First Amendment implications of the Satellite Home Viewer Improvement Act of 1999.
- Article from:
- Federal Communications Law Journal
- Article date:
- May 1, 2001
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I. INTRODUCTION
The Satellite Home Viewer Improvement Act ("SHVIA")(1) changed the face of the market for television video services by authorizing direct broadcast satellite ("DBS") carriers to carry local television stations within their own local markets. Prior to the passage of this law, households could subscribe to satellite-delivered network programming only if they could demonstrate that they could not receive good over-the-air signals from their local network affiliates. Since the passage of SHVIA on November 29, 1999, DBS carriers have become powerful players in the marketplace for video distribution--a market currently dominated by rapidly consolidating ...