Anyway to change DMA?

[meldar_b]

I did a fast google search and found this:

H.R. 2821:Television Freedom Act of 2007

GovTrack: H.R. 2821 [110th]: Text of Legislation, Introduced in House

This bill never became law. This bill was proposed in a previous session of Congress. Sessions of Congress last two years, and at the end of each session all proposed bills and resolutions that haven't passed are cleared from the books. Members often reintroduce bills that did not come up for debate under a new number in the next session.

 

[meldar_b]

also found this?

Reauthorization of the Satellite Home Viewer Extension and Reauthorization Act
The Subcommittee on Communications, Technology, and the Internet held a hearing titled, "Reauthorization of the Satellite Home Viewer Extension and Reauthorization Act" at 10:00 a.m. on Tuesday, February 24, 2009, in 2123 Rayburn House Office Building. The Committee is required to reauthorize the Satellite Home Viewer Extension and Reauthorization Act by the end of the year.
Committee on Energy and Commerce - Reauthorization of the Satellite Home Viewer Extension and Reauthorization Act

 

[SamCdbs]

Getting back to the origninal poster's complaint, the Huntington-Charleston market includes the nine easternmost counties of Kentucky.

The market's news leader (one of the highest rated local news channels in the top 100 markets), WSAZ 3 (which has common ownership with WKYT in Lexington and shares resources relative to KY politics and UK sports) tries very hard to serve the entire region. It has a dedicated Kentucky reporter and has news coverage of its part of Kentucky daily, in addition to the afformentioned coverage of Kentucky politics and UK sports. Certainly UK is covered more closely by WSAZ than WVU or OSU. WSAZ has the same UK and SEC package as WKYT, although it carries some games on its .2 channel (MY network) which DirecTV does not carry. It should.

Further, the statewide KET network is included in Huntington-Charleston locals, as it is in all of Kentucky. At one time KET carried a Louisville station's 11 news, because so much of the state gets its TV from elsewhere, but dropped the practice. It was a good idea.

The "news range" of the UHF Lexington market is, however, pretty much metro Lexington. He will probably find coverage of car wrecks and such in Lexington, and no mention of anything east of Winchester, ever.

The people that get gored in this market, are the 7 counties of Ohio. The ABC station consistantly takes the Leastleftovers game over the Big 10 game, and no station mentions Ohio news in any meaningful way. The CW affiliate, which is IN Ohio, IMHO, should rebroadcast a Columbus or Cincinnati station's news show. It would make money doing so.

 

[jcrandall]

There is no new bill. This stuff is all from years ago. There was stuff for sig viewed lumped into the SHERVA, which is up for renewal, but it limited sig view to very few areas from my understanding. Scott can speak better to it.

I doubt the renewal will get much attention, and everything will stay status quo.

(I may be wrong on the name / renewal / etc. I don't follow it too closely)