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A House subcommittee today took its first, small step toward opening the legal can of worms that comprise the nation’s communications laws, holding a hearing on a 25-year law that governs which broadcast stations satellite TV companies can distribute.
Called the Satellite Television Extension and Localism Act, the law allows satellite TV companies like Dish and DirecTV to retransmit to local market subscribers a network TV signal from outside the subscribers' market.
Over the years, the need for the law has changed and so has its impact.
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