STELAR to Sunset Dec. 31

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The Senate passed the Television Viewer Protection Act (TVPA) and the Satellite Television Community Protection and Promotion Act of 2019, two bills that orginated in the House. The compromise bills make the retransmission good faith negotiation mandate for broadcasters and pay-TV providers permanent and sunsets the every-five-year renewal of the satellite distant signal compulsory license, which was most recently renewed in 2014 as STELAR, the Satellite Television Extension and Localism Act. Some satellite customers could lose access to TV station signals when the current law sunsets Dec. 31, but it is unclear how many. 


STELAR to Sunset Dec. 31