Chicago enacted an ordinance regulating satellite dishes that is based...
Chicago enacted an ordinance regulating satellite dishes that is based on Philadelphia’s ordinance, the Satellite Broadcasting & Communications Association said in a filing (http://xrl.us/bm4mr5) in docket 12-1. It shares the Philadelphia ordinance’s flaws, “but in some ways, it is even…
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worse.” The Chicago ordinance has a second set of rules “governing antenna placement when installation in its preferred location is infeasible,” the filing said. The rules “contain no exceptions for cost, delay, and signal preclusion.” If these restrictions are allowed to stand, “millions of consumers will lose their choice of TV provider, tens of thousands of jobs will be lost and satellite will lose its ability to compete with cable in urban areas,” they said. SBCA members include Dish Network and DirecTV.