Leaders of the Senate Commerce Committee began circulating legislation to overhaul the way that people choose which television channels they watch. The bill that Chairman Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., and top Republican John Thune, S.D., presented to committee members would allow people to pick and choose which broadcast stations, such as NBC or ABC, they wanted as part of their cable package, among other changes to the regime that allows subscription TV companies to retransmit broadcast programming. Go here: Senators circulate bill to shake up TV market
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