FCC Established DBS (1980)

• Eight locations over US (9° spacing)

• Only three could cover the whole US.

• 1983 FCC award construction permits

• 1989 FCC “due diligence” failure

• 1992 Cable Act gave programs to DBS

• 1993 MPEG1 compression standard 8:1

• 1994 First Launch

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