Satellite Viewers Act fails

[Scott Greczkowski]

She does have good points (and she is from Cheyenne, WI which is the home of the main DISH Network uplink center. How Wild is that?)

[bshiers]

Cheyenne, WY even

[sddtvtech]

So my DNS will go away? NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

That link doesn't work.

What link? The one in the first post does work.

The link on the first post doesn't work for me.

worked for me...

[SomeRandomIdiot]

http://www.broadcastingcable.com/art...bs_Package.php

SatelliteBill Returns As Part Of Jobs Package - 2010-03-02 01:27:47 | Broadcasting & Cable




Satellite Bill Returns As Part Of Jobs Package

Sens. Reid and Baucus introduce bill to extend satellite license

By John Eggerton -- Broadcasting & Cable, 3/1/2010 8:27:47 PM


The Senate Judiciary Committee version of the satellite reauthorization bill, which is the one with generally bipartisan support Senate Republicans said last week, has resurfaced as part of a just-introduced jobs bill, according to a Judiciary committee staffer.

Sens. Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and Max Baucus (D-Mont.) introduced the bill Monday afternoon on the floor after a bill that would have simply extended the satellite license, as well as health and unemployment insurance payments for another few weeks (until March 28 for the satellite bill) continued to be blocked by a single Senator (Jim Bunning [R-Ky.]) according to multiple sources, over issues unrelated to satellite.

Meanwhile although the license that allows satellite operators to deliver distant affiliate TV station signals expired Feb. 28, those signals are still being delivered. That is because the leadership of the Judiciary committees promised DirecTV, National Programming Service (which deliver the signals) and the relevant stakeholders (broadcasters, sports leagues and others who receive payments) that when a bill does pass it will retroactively make the interim delivery legal.

[Stargazer]

They want all local DMA's launched and see that it is going to happen in the near future so there is no point in having Distant Networks anymore and that this may help accelerate all DMA's getting launched to satellite.

[Ramy]

They want all local DMA's launched and see that it is going to happen in the near future so there is no point in having Distant Networks anymore and that this may help accelerate all DMA's getting launched to satellite.

Fox 11 on Directv is horrible with their audio problems. I am glad I still have the DNS right now.