[opendtv] Re: DTV Delay Bill Introduced

  • From: "Manfredi, Albert E" <albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 18:44:52 -0500

John Shutt wrote:

> Bert,
>
> It was seared, SEARED into my memory, just as John Kerry's memory
> of being ordered by Nixon into Cambodia on Christmas Day, 1968 was.

Heh. (Or of being a war hero.)

I got frequent flak back then for taking this position, now I get flak
for having taken the opposite position.

> That being said, when the 85% rule was written, it was not a done
> deal in all markets. There certainly was not 85% cable penetration
> in the Lansing, MI, DMA, and neither Dish nor DirecTV were
> broadcasting local-into-local for the Lansing DMA at that time.

Yes, I remember that market-specific argument at the time. What got
written into law, however, did not specify anything about local
broadcasters, but rather the content of the four major networks. Anyway,
be that as it may, time took care of the little details.

Bert
 
 
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