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Article: SATELLITE TV TO SHOW LOCAL CHANNELS
- Article from:
- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- November 30, 1999
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Satellite television systems can begin providing subscribers with
local channels, boosting their ability to compete with cable TV,
under legislation that President Clinton signed into law yesterday.
Echostar's Dish Network service planned to begin beaming six
Boston stations to area subscribers as soon as late last night or
this morning as part of a 13-city nationwide rollout of local
channels.
Its bigger rival, DirecTV, which has nearly two-thirds of the 11
million US digital-dish customers, planned a quick rollout to seven
US cities but had no immediate plans for Boston.
"This is going to begin the next stage of the video revolution,"
said US Representative Edward J. Markey of Malden, ...