Ed Markey: “If they subscribe to satellite, they cannot get the local channels.…”

On the recordFebruary 25, 1999

If they subscribe to satellite, they cannot get the local channels. The gentleman from Louisiana (Mr. Tauzin) and I, and the other members of our committee, we are going to try to rectify this. If Tip O'Neill was here today and looking at these issues, he would say that all politics of satellites are local, into local. How do we provide local people with their local TV stations? We are going to try to do that this year, and, I think, provide real competition through wireless, through satellite and other technologies to the cable industry and give the consumer a real break.

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Ed Markey

Democratic · Massachusetts

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Discussing the need for local TV access for satellite subscribers.

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