On Thursday, the FCC released an order agreeing to allow a company to provide Direct Broadcast Satellite service to the United States using Dutch satellites. If this company were to actually implement this service, it would compete directly with DIRECTV and Echostar (Dish Network), and compete as well in the larger multichannel video space with numerous
Cable Carriage
Cable System Requests Must Carry for TV Station
By David Oxenford on
Posted in Cable Carriage
In one of those "man bites dog" situations, the FCC yesterday decided a case where a cable television system asked that the FCC add the communities that it serves to a nearby television market so that it could carry a television station from that nearby market. This is in contrast to the usual market modification cases…