1. Both last year and this year, some customers with rate increases receive more channels for their money. 2. But he also said individual cable channels could be disrupted because cable providers receive the channels from a variety of sources that could be affected by a computer problem. 3. Currently, most satellite users buy an additional antenna or subscribe to a cable company to receive local channels. 4. Current law restricts consumers from receiving satellite retransmission of network programming if local channels can be received by an antenna. 5. On the other, the number of households that receive the channel is a fraction of those that receive ESPN. 6. To receive those channels, viewers must install a traditional rooftop antenna. 7. Viewers who receive both channels live in predominantly urban and suburban areas. 8. With cable, we could receive different channels simultaneously on several receivers. 9. Consumers are angry over what they consider unfair pricing and surcharges to receive sports channels that show English Premier League soccer. 10. HCL-GI Ltd. will manufacture equipment to enable television sets to receive more channels. |