Possible break for satellite folks out there!

[Driew]

Interesting...hopefully this gets done quickly for the satellite people out there

EDIT: Try this: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091215/ap_on_sp_ot/us_tec_cable_tv_loophole

 

[Nikolokolus]

404 error. No article.

 

[julius]

404 error. No article.

That scored high on the unintentional comedy scale.

 

[roydezlaw]

Oh darn! Now we won't be able to watch Blazers on KGW either.

 

[THE HCP]

The Blazers will not broadcast the rest of the season?

 

[Wheels]

I cant load anything.

 

[BlazerCaravan]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091215/ap_on_sp_ot/us_tec_cable_tv_loophole

 

[BBert]

When?

Somebody got a picture of pigs with wings?

 

[roydezlaw]

The Blazers will not broadcast the rest of the season?

Just a little joke about Comcast buying NBC.

 

[Driew]

Sorry about that got the right link up now.

 

[GrandpaBlaze]

The Federal Communications Commission will consider an order to close to the so-called "terrestrial loophole," which allows cable companies to get around access requirements in a 1992 federal cable law by distributing programming over landlines rather than satellite connections.

Cable TV operators including Cox Communications Inc., Cablevision Systems Corp. and Comcast Corp. have relied on the loophole to deny programming to competitors such as DirecTV Inc., Echostar Corp.'s Dish Network, AT&T Inc.'s U-Verse video service and Verizon Communications Inc.'s FiOS video service.

Cox, for instance, denies AT&T access to San Diego Padres games. Cablevision won't let AT&T and Verizon carry the high-definition format of its Madison Square Garden networks, which broadcast the games of the New York Knicks, New York Rangers, New York Islanders and New Jersey Devils.

Comcast would not be able to deny Blazer broadcasts to Dish or DirecTV. Nice.

Gramps...