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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 satell ....
[inaudible conversations] we will now come to order. The chair now recognizes himself for five minutes. Good morning. Id like to welcome everyone to the subcommittees first hearing of the new congress on the evolving media marketplace. It also like to thank her witnesses for appearing before us today to discuss these important issues. Five years ago this committee passed reauthorization act this spill extended the operation for Satellite Television companies to provide broadcast content to unserved households. According to the satellite tv industry this provision enables roughly 870,000 customers in mostly rural amenities to receive over the air broadcast Television Signals. These customers fall into a few categories per the first is household they cannot receive broadcast content using an antenna for the second as markets where satellite providers do not offer loca ....
You are never more than seven minutes away from weather and traffic and meteorologist bill evans with the forecast. Hot day. Day three of our hot wife. It started saturday. Temperatures around 80 to start the day. Normal high is about ten cooler than that. 78 canarsie. 75 cambria heights. 81 whitestone, Staten Island, down the jersey shore, from 78 to 72 degrees. 68 up to the north around poughkeepsie. So, we are looking at a hot day today. We will get into the mid90s easily today. You tack on the humidity, it will feel like 100. Thats right. Be careful. We could get to 95, 96 degrees, break a record high. We will talk about that coming up. Debbie duhaime is in for heather. We will start out telling you everything is back on track l. I. R. R. On the Ronkonkoma Branch after problems from yesterday. Metro branch, Waterbury ....
They track along florida with the updated track. Remember its more about the cone than the direct red line that you see. That is just the potential track that is most likely at this point and you can see the cone still covers much of florida here from about sunday Early Morning to tuesday Early Morning. So this is not just a day event here that were looking at. Winds at 155mileperhour with Hurricane Irma and its moving to the west northwest. So we are seeing that it will edge more to the north and make that turn. Look at the track, riding the cuba coastline through today. Overnight into early sunday, it looks likely that it will start to impact and make landfall somewhere over the florida keys before it moves right along the western coast of florida through about tuesday in those early a. M. Hours. So irma is very soon goi ....
Well, a few hours after House Republicans unveiled their tax plan this morning, Congressional Democrats also spoke with reporters. Well hear from House Minority leader, nancy pelosi, Senate Minority leader, chuck schumer, and other democratic leaders. Good afternoon, everyone. Thank you for being here. As you know, today House Republicans unveiled a bill that raises taxes on millions of middle class families and borrows trillions from the future just to give massive new tax breaks to the wealthy. And especially to their friends, Corporate America. The American People deserve real b ....