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It's not pure capitalism if I cannot buy a feed from a local station, no matter where it's located, no matter where I'm receiving my programming.

The FCC can only enforce what Congress legislates. I know satellite technicians, and I know for a fact the Directv has the ability to deliver the signal from every local station they carry to any customer they serve.

Those exclusive contracts are only exclusive through federal legislation. Right now, I receive both my local CBS channel and the CBS east coast and west coats network feeds. (I know, don't ask about CBS.) I still choose to view my local channel for local events. Otherwise, it's rare I even watch CBS, no matter where the signal originates.

I just think it should be my right to choose with whom I do business, as a consumer, absent any federal mandates dictating who gets to provideme with my service.

That legislation came from the major networks so they could control their programming. It didn’t just drop out of the thin air. First they sued in federal courts and then demanded laws to protect their content. Fact.

The satellite providers would love to sell you more services.

In capitalism, if the seller doesn’t want to sell, they don’t. You have no right to their product beyond the conditions they are willing to sell them to you for.