[opendtv] Re: NCTA, NAB Battle EchoStar HDTV Legislation

Eory Frank-p22212 wrote:
> Now I see the purpose of the grossly erroneous maps on www.iwantmyhdtv.com
> 
> -- Frank
> 
> 
> NCTA, NAB Battle EchoStar HDTV Legislation 
>  
> By Ted Hearn -- Multichannel News, 9/24/2004 4:26:00 PM 
> 
> The cable and broadcast industries are teaming up to undercut an HDTV plan 
> supported by EchoStar Communications Corp. that was included in satellite 
> legislation awaiting a vote in the Senate.
> 
> The National Cable & Telecommunications Association and the National 
> Association of Broadcasters, in a letter Friday to two Senate leaders, 
> complained that EchoStar's plan was "a government giveaway" that would injure 
> local TV stations and put cable at a competitive disadvantage.
> 
> The two-page letter was signed by NCTA president Robert Sachs and NAB 
> president Edward Fritts and addressed to Senate Judiciary Committee chairman 
> Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) and ranking member Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.).
> 
> The bill (S. 2644) would permit satellite carriers to sell out-of-town HDTV 
> versions of ABC, NBC, CBS and Fox to consumers around the country who can't 
> get the same programming locally with off-air antennas...
> 
> http://www.multichannel.com/article/CA455820?display=Breaking+News&referral=SUPP
> 
> 


I don't understand this. The maps grossly overestimate the
coverage area of stations in our area. Would not EchoStar
want to UNDERestimate the coverage area?

Doug McDonald
 
 
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