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NAB's Rehr To FCC: Sat Radio "Free" Access Should Make It Subject To Indecency Regs
June 6, 2006 at 9:18 AM (PT)
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The NAB's President/CEO DAVID REHR has sent a letter to FCC Chairman KEVIN MARTIN asking for the Commission to investigate whether "free access" to satellite radio -- free trials for car buyers and the inadvertent "leaking" of receivers' FM transmitter signals to nearby cars -- should subject satellite radio to indecency regulations.
Once again complaining about "the unequal regulatory treatment between free over-the-air and satellite radio," REHR asserts that "to the extent that satellite radio service is now received free by nonsubscribers, this undermines the frequently-made argument that satellite radio should be regulated very differently than traditional broadcast radio simply because satellite is a subscription service. Given that satellite radio content is in fact available to and received by nonsubscribers, NAB requests that the FCC consider the issues raised by free access to satellite radio programming."
... that satellite radio service is now received free by nonsubscribers, this undermines the frequently-made argument that satellite radio should be regulated very differently than traditional broadcast radio ...

