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Testimony to House on Direct Broadcast Satellite Service in the Multichannel Video Distribution Market

The proposed merger between the News Corporation (“News Corp./Fox”) and Hughes Electronics Corporation’s satellite television unit DIRECTV (“DirecTV”), combined with the FCC current efforts to relax or eliminate media ownership rules that restrict ownership of multiple television stations, newspapers and radio stations