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In reply to the discussion: How about I cut my cable bill down by not being forced to carry all those relgious [View all]onenote
(42,703 posts)It originally was a satellite service, but it couldn't make a go of it paying for transponder space. So it abandoned the satellite model and is now an Internet-based video provider. It doesn't want to limit itself to religious programming anymore either. It offers one package that is pretty much all religious networks and a separate "family" package that includes a lot of sports and other traditional cable network programming. It filed a complaint with the FCC a couple of years ago alleging that Discovery Networks had violated the law by refusing to license its programming for distribution by SkyAngel. The FCC issued a preliminary ruling that an Internet based provider doesn't have the same rights (or the same obligations) as a cable system or satellite carrier and thus Discovery did not have to agree to be distributed by SkyAngel.