Consumer groups urge congress to protect more than 870,000 satellite television subscribers who risk losing their ability to access news, sports and programming at a fair and
competitive price. Many of the residents most likely to be impacted by a failure to renew STELAR (Satellite Television Extension and Localism Act Reauthorization) are disproportionately rural or otherwise live in areas that put them at a considerable disadvantage for access to information compared to urban and suburban communities.