Chris Blount
05-06-04, 06:59 AM
As expected, the Senate Judiciary Committee next week will hold a hearing on the Satellite Home Viewer Extension Act, legislation that was introduced in January by Orrin Hatch, the Utah Republican and chair of the committee.
No witness list was available yesterday. The hearing will take place Wednesday, May 12, at 8 a.m.
Hatch's bill provides for a five-year extension of the statutory license allowing satellite TV services to deliver secondary transmissions of distant network and superstation programming.
The Satellite Home Viewer Improvement Act (SHVIA), which became law in 1999, authorized for the first time the retransmission of local signals via satellite to subscribers. Local TV delivery via satellite has a permanent copyright license, and isn't part of the satellite extension act.
http://www.skyreport.com (Used with permission)
No witness list was available yesterday. The hearing will take place Wednesday, May 12, at 8 a.m.
Hatch's bill provides for a five-year extension of the statutory license allowing satellite TV services to deliver secondary transmissions of distant network and superstation programming.
The Satellite Home Viewer Improvement Act (SHVIA), which became law in 1999, authorized for the first time the retransmission of local signals via satellite to subscribers. Local TV delivery via satellite has a permanent copyright license, and isn't part of the satellite extension act.
http://www.skyreport.com (Used with permission)