The city of Philadelphia said its restrictions on satellite antenna placement...
The city of Philadelphia said its restrictions on satellite antenna placement are consistent with the FCC’s Over-the-Air Reception Devices (OTARD) rule. The city’s rules “are neither severe nor illegitimate,” it said in reply comments in docket 12-203 (http://xrl.us/bnvurx). The rule…
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doesn’t require “that any restriction on satellite antenna placement be justified with public safety or historic preservation considerations.” The restrictions are reasonable “and certainly do not impair satellite MVPDs [multichannel video programming devices] from delivering their service or their current and potential customers from receiving it,” Philadelphia said. Philadelphia, Boston and other city government groups previously opposed a petition from DirecTV and Dish Network to amend OTARD rules and bar state and local governments from restricting the devices (CD June 11 p5).