SHVERA Draft Bill Ties Local-Into-Local Service To Short-Market Fix

The House Judiciary Committee has drafted the Satellite Home Viewer Digital Television Act which ties local-into-local service to all 210 DMAs to a short-market fix and does not create an opt-out of the compulsory license for stations with single-source licenses. A new draft of the House version of the bill reauthorizing satellite operators' compulsory license to deliver distant network signals still contains language that would allow Dish Network back into the distant-signal business in exchange for delivering local TV station signals in all 210 Nielsen markets. The new draft also no longer contains a provision that would allow stations to opt out of the compulsory license if they secured a single-source license for all the programming on their air.