captured local broadcasts and transmitted them to homes.99Teleprompter’s transmissions extended to people who would ordinarily be unable to receive the broadcasts due to the far distance between the viewer and broadcast station.100 Thus,
Teleprompter’s service went beyond what Fortnightly offered.101 Again considering the viewer–performer line, the Supreme Court found that receiving and rechanneling broadcast signals was a viewer function because Teleprompter did not change the
programming, and the signals were for simultaneous viewing.102 When broadcast companies send out electronic signals to the public, they permit any member of the public with the means to receive the signal to convert the signals into sights and sounds.103 Thus, the combination of Telepromter’s viewer function and public access of broadcast TV made the performance noninfringing.104