[opendtv] Re: Questions about DTT Transition and Channels 60-69

Well, at least now you're talking about the beginning, and not the middle.

Did the FCC issue this NPRM by it's own motion, or did it do it in response
to a petitiion for rulemaking?  What person or organization filed that
initial petition for rulemaking?

I can help you out a bit here.  The FCC issued the NPRM in response to a
petition filed by the NAB, at the urging of John Abel (remember his name in
this thread).

These are public documents (all of which I read contemporaneously, but I was
a bit tardy on the NAB petition: I read it about two weeks after it was
filed.

And, others joined in after the NAB led the way; some were only a day or two
behind, indicating some degree of coordination.

Just to bring this whole thing full circle, in spite of having -- laughably,
and to much derision -- CBS saying that DBS shouldn't we granted to the
applicants because CBS had a weasel of HDTV that should use DBS frequencies
(a stance by the way, that caused them EXTREME problems with their
affiliates despite them knowing it was a weasel), CBS, IIRC, was the last of
the networks to chime in on the NAB petition, and did it AFTER the NPRM was
issued.

John Willkie

P.S.  Let me know if you have any facts that appear to be contrary to my
contemporaneous knowledge of this matter.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mark Schubin" <tvmark@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, September 26, 2005 11:21 AM
Subject: [opendtv] Re: Questions about DTT Transition and Channels 60-69


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> John Willkie wrote:
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> >This WAS the stimulus for the NAB.
> >
> The NAB did not begin the DTT transition; the FCC did, starting with an
> NPRM in 1987.
>
> TTFN,
> Mark
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