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Hearing on legislation governing retransmission of broadcast Television Content by satellite tv companies. Representatives from the National Association of broadcasters, at t, the cable industry, and the Public Interest group testified at this hearing held by house energy and subcommittee on communications. There we go. Will now come to order. The chair recognizes himself for five minutes. Good morning, id like to welcome everyone to the subcommittees first hearing for stellar and evolving marketplace. Id like to thank our witnesses for appearing before us to address these important issues. Five years ago passed the act, extended authorization for Satellite Television companies to provide broadcast content to unserved households. According to satellite tv industry, this provision enables roughly 870,000 customers in mostly rural to receive broadcast television signals. These customers fall into a few categories, first is households that cant receive content using an antenna. Second is
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And featuring the legendary roots crew. And now, here he is, jimmy fallon [ cheers and applause ] jimmy oh, my goodness that is a hot crowd. [ cheers and applause ] that is a great new york city crowd right here tonight. Welcome, everybody. Welcome, welcome, welcome to the tonight show. Here it is. Youre here. [ cheers and applause ] this is the show to be at. Thank you. Welcome. Heres what people are talking about, guys. Did you see this . The other day, President Trump tweeted that he turned down an offer to be Time Magazines person of the year. [ light laughter ] thats not all. Today, he said that he turned down the chance to marry prince harry. Steve really . [ laughter ] jimmy and he was very sad. Believe me, he was very sad. [ light laughter ] thats right. Prince harry and Meghan Markle are engaged. [ cheers and applause ] so, finally, a Success Story for tinder. You know . [ laughter ] i mean, thats thats good. [ applause ] but this is nice. Harry actually asked meghans father f
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