[opendtv] Re: DTV Delay Bill Introduced

  • From: "John Willkie" <johnwillkie@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 16:03:38 -0800

What is missing in all this nostalgia is that markets were not defined.
Were they DMAs, or SMSAs, or ...

John Willkie, whose home market achieved 85% cable penetration in the
mid-1980s.



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De: opendtv-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:opendtv-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] En
nombre de Manfredi, Albert E
Enviado el: Tuesday, January 20, 2009 3:45 PM
Para: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Asunto: [opendtv] Re: DTV Delay Bill Introduced

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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