SBCA Downsized
By STEVE DONOHUE published
DirecTV Inc. and EchoStar Communications Corp. will no longer officially cooperate on lobbying satellite issues in Washington, D.C., after the board of directors at the Satellite Broadcasting & Communications Association voted Thursday to disband the organization in its current form and lay off most of its staff.
The SBCA -- which will continue running an education program for satellite installers -- will also kill its semiannual SkyFORUM conferences in New York, which the two direct-broadcast satellite companies used as a forum to tout their companies to Wall Street.
EchoStar and DirecTV each have their own lobbying offices in Washington.
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