TV Orphans to FCC: Please, Can We Have Some More?

摘要

Some Satellite TV customers and broadcasters are squaring off in Colorado (and the edges of New Mexico) over TV station carriage. The STELAR law reauthorization that renewed the satellite distant signal license, for the first time said the FCC could grant requests to modify satellite markets to include out-of-market TV stations, just as cable operators are allowed to do in so-called "orphan county" markets where the local TV stations are licensed to another state and subs can't get their local news and weather and sports teams.