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Submitted: February 21, 2008 - 10:34am
Last updated: February 21, 2008 - 12:16pm
Last updated: February 21, 2008 - 12:16pm
NAB TO FCC: ENSURE DIRECTV LOCAL-TV DELIVERY IN ALL 210 MARKETS
[SOURCE: Broadcasting&Cable, AUTHOR: John Eggerton]
As the Federal Communications Commission prepares to vote on the DirecTV-Liberty Media merger, the National Association of Broadcasters asked it to make DirecTV's delivery of "true" local-into-local TV service in all 210 TV markets a condition of the deal. In a letter to the FCC Tuesday, the NAB said that unless DirecTV is delivering local-into-local "satellite" service in all 210 markets by the end of 2008, it won't have lived up to its end of the bargain.
http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/CA6533759.html?rssid=193
* Martin Backing DirecTV Against NAB
Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin appears to be siding with DirecTV in a dispute with the National Association of Broadcasters over satellite distribution of local TV signals in rural markets.
http://www.multichannel.com/article/CA6534083.html?nid=4262
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