Sky One viewers see the hour-long special first while viewers without cable or satellite will have to wait a few months more until it pops up in the terrestrial run on Channel 4.

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For example, a television that is reviewed by Consumer Reports would have a link to BillShrink analysis of television (cable or satellite) service.

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Armed with this background, Weaver went to the FCC and tried to argue that his company would be just like a cable or satellite company which means that the broadcasters would have to negotiate with him.

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Airlines have been split on whether to go with a ground-based system or with satellite-based systems.

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Although phones, or parts of phones, have been sent into space before, running an entire satellite through such a device has not been tried previously.

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If you want to taste this food, you'll have to visit the El Bulli satellite in a hotel outside Sevilla when it reopens in March or wait to be invited as a guest of the academy in 2014.

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Yeah, we know that most of you probably won't be affected by this either way, since the Broadcast Flag only governs digital over-the-air broadcasts and the vast majority of Americans homes get their TV via cable or satellite (which have copy control mechanisms of their own), but the Broadcast Flag establishes a very dangerous precedent.

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Several powerful members of Congress have expressed a different view: that it doesn't matter satellite TV competes with cable TV or other media, a monopoly in satellite TV is to be avoided.

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"Regarding the planned peaceful satellite launch, should others apply a double standard or inappropriately interfere with our rights, we would have no choice but to respond, " Mr. Ri said, without elaborating.

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