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Tagged in: Broadband, Business, Direct broadcast satellites, Education, Educational television, Elementary and secondary education, Higher education, Subscription television, Telecommunication, Telecommunication industry

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To mandate satellite carriage of qualified noncommercial educational television stations.

11/15/2007--Introduced.

Satellite Consumers' Access to Public Television Digital Programming Act of 2007 - Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to require a satellite carrier that offers multichannel video programming distribution service to over five million subscribers to retransmit the digital signals of each noncommercial educational television station that is located in any local U.S. market.

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  • 11/15/2007 - Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
  • 11/15/2007 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet.
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H.R.4221 Introduced in House11/20/2007