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Daniel Inouye: “Permit local stations, not national networks . . . to control the use of their signals.”

On the recordJanuary 28, 1992
Permit local stations, not national networks . . . to control the use of their signals.
Said by
Daniel Inouye
Democratic · Hawaii

Editor's note · Context

Inouye emphasized local control in retransmission consent during the 1992 Act debate.

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