Telemundo Complains About Second Dish Option

Telemundo, the Spanish-language broadcaster that has eight stations carried by EchoStar's DISH Network via a second dish solution, asked the Federal Communications Commission to clarify or modify its rules concerning must-carry of local stations via satellite.

The company said EchoStar's carriage of its stations via a second dish "is clearly discriminatory, harmful to the public interest and illegal."

The free second dish EchoStar is offering to customers supplies local networks outside of typical network affiliates. The second dish channel set contains independent stations, off-air shopping nets and Spanish-language programming, among other channels.

In its FCC filing criticizing the second dish offering, Telemundo reminded the commission that EchoStar customers in the markets served by the eight Telemundo stations cannot get those channels with existing EchoStar equipment. "EchoStar has chosen to implement a carriage plan that discriminates against certain television stations - most notably Spanish-language television stations including those licensed to Telemundo," the company said.

From <a href="http://www.skyreport.com" target=none>SkyReport</a> (Used with permission)

Do the Mexicans that are in the country illegally that are Univision and Telemundo advertising pot even subscribe to DBS service?

Should these Univisions and Telemundos that are duplicates of national feeds get satellite coverage? IMHO, No. Its already bad enough, there is lack of diversity of programming, especially on DirecTV. Last we need is Unis and Tels from every market getting equal carriage as the local NBC, CBS, when only 10% less of people understand Spanish.

Why not more national feeds, not local feeds.