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WASHINGTON — Cable-TV companies will no longer be able to use a federal loophole to withhold sports networks and other popular programming that they own from satellite providers and other rivals.
The Federal Communications Commission voted 4-1 on Wednesday to close the “terrestrial loophole” in a 1992 federal law. Under that law, a cable-TV provider must let rivals carry any channel it owns if satellite connections are used to transmit the channel to cable systems in the U.S. The Associated Press
