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When it comes to the much ballyhooed XM + SIRIUS satellite radio merger, the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) continues to oppose the move. Now the organization wants the FCC to include a rule to block satellite radio companies from broadcasting local content. There is specific language they wish included for adoption consideration, that being, “SDARS (Satellite Digital Audio Radio Service) repeaters are restricted to the simultaneous retransmission of the complete programming, and only that programming, transmitted by the satellite directly to the SDARS subscribers’ receivers, and may not be used to distribute any information not also transmitted to all subscribers’ receivers.”


