SHVERA

Satellite Home Viewer Extension and Reauthorization Act

Decisionmark Today• Decisionmark’s Geneva Technology is the cornerstone

of managing interaction between the leading DBS companies, the major networks and the local affiliates.

• ProximityTV is the leading web-based tool used by local television affiliates.

• TitanTV is relied on as the DTV/HDTV authority for the EPG and media center (PVR) space.

• The TitanTV guide is the dominant web-based EPG for station web sites.

• Decisionmark holds several patents critical in the emerging digital landscape.

Distant Network Service (DNS)

Satellite companies can provide “distant” network broadcast stations to eligible subscribers. “Distant” refers to television broadcast stations that are not in a subscriber’s

local market. For example, if you live in Billings, Montana, a station from Los Angeles, California would be “distant.”

Waiver Processing System

Viewer DirecTV Decisionmark Station

WaiverRequest

GRANT

DENYViewer Information

ProximityTV

The waiver processing tool is available in our SHVERA Compliance application from ProximityTV.com, an online destination for hundreds of broadcasters each day.

August 2005• 903 unique PTV users • 651 unique stations• 9,495 PTV user sessions

Waiver Processing• All waivers found in one location for processing

• Quickly navigate through the listings to determine grants and denies

•Pull up a map of where each viewer is located

• Electronic submission of processed waivers

Waiver Sorting and Reviewing

• WaiverTV Plus’s Sort and Review feature offers powerful analysis capabilities to sort and review waiver requests by a variety of criteria.

• You can sort records by signal strength, date or ZIP Code and even view a map of the records location.

Waiver Filters• Use SmartBuffer to run

all your automated filters• View important data

about your waivers and challenges such as predicted dBu strength.

• Download all past granted and denied waivers with Waiver History

• Access Locate Viewer to enter addresses and view locations on the signal area map.

Benefits of WaiverTV Plus

• Establish a standard and consistent practice for assessing waiver and challenge requests.

• Save considerable administrative costs that have historically been associated with waiver and challenge processing.

• Protect viewership by easily responding to waiver requests from the satellite companies.

Thank You