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DirecTV Exec Blasts Networks At Hearing

Los Angeles Times | by TVNewsCheck

Consumers should get to choose which broadcast networks they want to pay to receive, a senior DirecTV executive told Congress today. In testimony to a House Energy and Commerce subcommittee on communications and technology, DirecTV EVP Mike Palkovic said new rules are needed for broadcasters such as CBS, NBC, ABC and Fox when it comes to negotiating distribution contracts with pay TV distributors.