{"id":86960,"date":"2010-05-14T18:09:28","date_gmt":"2010-05-14T10:09:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/u-s-congress-approves-five-year-satellite-tv-statutory-license-extension\/"},"modified":"2010-05-14T18:09:28","modified_gmt":"2010-05-14T10:09:28","slug":"u-s-congress-approves-five-year-satellite-tv-statutory-license-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/u-s-congress-approves-five-year-satellite-tv-statutory-license-extension\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Congress Approves Five-Year Satellite TV Statutory License  Extension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[05-14-10] <strong>The U.S. House of Representatives<\/strong> passed the Satellite Television Extension and Localism Act of 2010 (STELA) May 12, renewing laws that govern the retransmission of broadcast television content by satellite companies.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The bill renews for five years statutory licenses that allow satellite TV companies to retransmit broadcast stations to their customers for five years. The licenses had been set to expire at the end of May, and the bill also includes measures to modernize and simplify license processes and encourage satellite providers to make more local content available.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; U.S. satellite pay-TV operator <strong>Dish Network<\/strong> hailed the bill\u2019s passage. \u201cDish Network congratulates Congress on passing [STELA], clearing the way for Dish Network to become the first pay-TV provider to make local broadcast stations available in every television market in the United States,\u201d the company said in a statement.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The legislation now moves to President Obama\u2019s desk for signing.<\/p>\n<h2>Related Stories-<\/h2>\n<p>\n<b class=\"titlelink\">Panasonic, DirecTV Reveal 3-D HD Roll Out Plan<\/b>&nbsp;&nbsp;  \t\t\tSatellite Today&nbsp;&nbsp; \t\t\tJanuary 8, 2010<br \/>\n[01-08-10] DirecTV will launch  three dedicated 3-D HD channels in 2010, DirecTV and Panasonic, its  technology partner, announced in a Jan. 6 statement.  The service  will be available through existing DirecTV set-top boxes\u2026<\/p>\n<p><b class=\"titlelink\">Satellite Reauthorization Bill Moves to U.S. Senate<\/b>&nbsp;&nbsp;  \t\t\tSatellite Today&nbsp;&nbsp; \t\t\tDecember 7, 2009<br \/>\n[12-07-09] The U.S. House of  Representatives has passed an updated version of HR 3750, commonly known  as the Satellite Reauthorization Bill, Congress announced Dev. 4.   The bill, which upon signing was renamed the Satellite\u2026<\/p>\n<p><b class=\"titlelink\">U.S. Senate Commerce Committee Passes Satellite  Reauthorization Bill<\/b>&nbsp;&nbsp; \t\t\tSatellite Today&nbsp;&nbsp; \t\t\tNovember 20, 2009<br \/>\n[11-20-09] The U.S. Senate  Commerce Committee has passed the Satellite Television Extension and  Localism Act (STELA), according to Senate reports released Nov. 19.  STELA, the committee s version of the satellite reauthorization\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[05-14-10] The U.S. House of Representatives passed the Satellite Television Extension and Localism Act of 2010 (STELA) May 12, renewing laws that govern the retransmission of broadcast television content by satellite companies. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The bill renews for five years statutory licenses that allow satellite TV companies to retransmit broadcast stations to their customers for five [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86960"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86960\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}