An all new petition I created

[shkarter1985]

Helly everybody,

I've got a petition to congress, senate, and the president for you to sign to have changes to the SHVERA law. Abolish The Satellite Home Viewer Extension and Reauthorization Act | Petition2Congress |

Please spread the word to other people. Support the cause.

 

[jayn_j]

You realize, of course, that the current SHVERA is what allows the satellite companies to carry LIL at all.

Yes, it has shortcomings that may be addressed when it comes up for review, but if the law were abolished entirely, the satellite companies would not be able to carry any LIL signals.

 

[Derwin0]

SHVA (and it's successors) did not restrict anything, they actually carved exemptions into copyright law, forcing the content owners to allow their property to be distributed against their will.

The networks choose to use an affiliate model to distribute their programming. If they want to use a national system they could, and do already do with their cable channels (ala ABC Family).

The only real reason (and pretty much inferred from your petition) is to get news from that out of area station. Guess what, local stations own their local newscasts, and can distribute them as they see fit (some even put them on the web). But no cable/satellite provider is going to carry a station where they can only show 4-6 hours of news a day. Who would watch?

 

[yorktown]

If you have kids living in another state going to college you think they should get their local TV stations even if they are 10 states away ?
Why ?


Don't hold your breath on this getting something like this passed.

 

[jayn_j]

If you have kids living in another state going to college you think they should get their local TV stations even if they are 10 states away ?
Why ?


Don't hold your breath on this getting something like this passed.

In addition, most of the locals are now on spotbeams. It would be a huge technical issue to provide CONUS access to all markets. The way they make this work is to beam the signals down in tight beams that just cover about a 200 mile radius, and then re-use the spectrum with a different channel on a different spotbeam, but on the same frequency.