RACA President Reinforces to Senate Commerce Leaders Opposition to STELA Renewal
The Rural & Agriculture Council of America reinforced its opposition to Satellite Television Extension and Localism Act reauthorization Monday, ahead of the Senate Commerce Committee's Wednesday hearing (see 1910160036). The Communications Workers of America endorses renewal (see 1910170067). “There continues…
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to be consensus in rural America regarding the fact that people in rural communities are directly negatively affected” by STELA, RACA President Jack Alexander wrote Commerce Chairman Roger Wicker, R-Miss., and ranking member Maria Cantwell, D-Wash. “This legislative loophole creates a broadcast television divide.” Residents in the 12 markets where AT&T's DirecTV provides limited or no access to locally broadcast network stations (see 1903150045) “receive none of this sometimes lifesaving programming during times of crisis,” Alexander said. AT&T says the markets have access to local stations' terrestrial signals.