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Some satellite TV customers and broadcasters are squaring off in Colorado (and the edges of New Mexico) over TV station carriage.
The STELAR law reauthorization that renewed the satellite distant signal license, for the first time said the FCC could grant requests to modify satellite markets to include out-of-market TV stations, just as cable operators are allowed to do in so-called “orphan county” markets where the local TV stations are licensed to another state and subs can’t get their local news and weather and sports teams.
There appears to be a lot of TV station orphans in La Plata, Colo.
Four of the five most active dockets according to the FCC are commenters from La Plata who say they are tired of getting
Albuquerque stations and want access to Colorado broadcasters. Albuquerque stations are pushing back, saying there are other ways to provide access—short of importing Colorado stations into their markets—to compete for eyeballs and ad bucks.
