Implementation of the Satellite Home Viewer Improvement Act of 1999: Broadcast Signal Carriage Issues

This document responds to petitions for reconsideration of certain aspects of the Report and Order (FCC 00-417) previously issued in this proceeding. The Report and Order, a summary of which is published in the Federal Register at 66 FR 7410 (January 23, 2001), implemented section 338 of the Communications Act of 1934, as amended by the Satellite Home Viewer Improvement Act of 1999 ("SHVIA"). Specifically, the Report and Order implemented regulations regarding the carriage of local television stations in markets where satellite carriers offer local television service to their subscribers. As described, the Commission, in the Order on Reconsideration, denies the petitions and, on its own motion, clarifies and, where necessary, amends some of the requirements set forth in the Report and Order and the satellite broadcast signal carriage rule, 47 CFR 76.66.