But Dish sent a letter this week to the House Energy and Commerce Committee saying it won't have the satellite capacity to comply until it launches a new satellite in the fourth quarter of 2012.

DIRECTV has already signed an agreement with the Association of Public Television Stations to comply with the proposal. But Multichannel News reports that Dish has been unable to reach a similar deal with APTS.

Dish now provides standard-def signals of PBS stations in 181 markets.

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