DirecTV urged the FCC Office of Engineering and...

DirecTV urged the FCC Office of Engineering and Technology to use OET’s new TVStudy software to update the predictive model used for determining distant signal eligibility for satellite video subscribers, who are located outside a satellite TV company’s designated market area, and are eligible to receive signals from that company. The new software appears likely to improve the individual location Longley Rice (ILLR) model that predicts eligibility for distant network signals, it said in an ex parte filing in docket 10-152 (http://bit.ly/1n90lxw). OET claimed that the new software provides several improvements, including newer population data, better terrain data and more precise geographical coordinates, DirecTV said.