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11/20/2019
STELAR Still in Markup
At our deadline Tuesday, the House Commerce committee was still in the process of marking up 18 bills, including the TV Viewer Protection Act that would extend the STELAR satellite distant signal license by five years, extend good faith retrans negotiating provisions to collective buying groups (like NCTC) and require greater bill/advertising transparency on price.
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11/19/2019
Welcome Back, Ajit Pai
House Commerce will put the FCC in the spotlight again on Dec 5, holding an oversight meeting on the agency.
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11/19/2019
House Judiciary Circulates STELAR Bill
House Judiciary chmn Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) has put forth STELAR legislation, just as House Commerce gets ready to markup its version of the bill.
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11/18/2019
Anti-Robocall Bill Advances
House and Senate Commerce leaders have reached an agreement in principle on legislation to combat robocalls.
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11/15/2019
STELAR Bill Forwarded to Full Committee by House Commerce Subcmte
House Commerce’s Communications subcmte agreed unanimously to move chmn Mike Doyle’s (D-PA) STELAR reauthorization bill that includes retrans reforms and bill transparency requirements on to the full committee, but the minority reserved the right to vote against it down the line.
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11/07/2019
Wicker Introduces STELAR Bill
Sen Commerce chmn Roger Wicker (R-MS) introduced a bill Wednesday that would extend the satellite compulsory license for retransmitting distant signals for five years.