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Dale Cripps Is the Public Interest to be Found?
By Dale Cripps
Founder & Co-Publisher
Posted on April 21, 2005
Category: Politics & Policy
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Is this article (below) showing a focus upon you, the consumer of programming, or for the broadcast community? Not until the case is made that full carriage of any and all programs in the 6MHz channel is in the public interest does this one have a chance.


FCC ASKED TO RECONSIDER MUST-CARRY..

At least two organizations have filed petitions with the FCC asking the agency to reconsider its decision that cable operators don't have to carry broadcasters' multiple digital programs. NAB President and CEO Eddie Fritts told reporters at NAB2005 that the request to the FCC is part of a strategy that includes seeking legislation to require multicast must-carry. Meanwhile, the Minority Media and Telecommunications Council (MMTC) has also filed with the FCC a petition for further reconsideration of the ruling. MMTC is the principal advocate for ownership diversity in the country, representing 54 national organizations to the FCC.

Posted by Dale Cripps, April 21, 2005 08:57 PM

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About Dale Cripps

Dale Cripps is a professional journalist who has focused two thirds of his career on the subject of high-definition television. Upon completing his education in business and service in the military he formed Cripps and Associates, South Pasadena, California, in 1964, which operated as a market-development company for aerospace services. In 1983 he turned to television and began what has become a 20 year campaign to pioneer HDTV. For fifteen of those years he published the well-regarded HDTV Newsletter (an international monthly written for television professionals). During much of this same time he also served as the HDTV-Technical Editor for "Widescreen Review Magazine." On November 16, 1998 he launched the Internet distributed HDTV Magazine, which remains the only consumer publication devoted exclusively to high-definition television. In April of 2002 he co-founded with Tedson Meyers of Coudert Bros, the High-definition Television Association of America, which is presently based in Washington DC. Cripps is the president of this organization. Mr. Cripps is a charter member of the Academy of Digital Television Pioneers and honored by that organization with the DTV Press Leadership Award of 2002. He makes his home in Oregon.