SATELLITE TV FAIR MARKETING ACT
On July 31, 1987, the Senate Communications Sub-Committee convened to hear testimony concerning the Satellite TV Fair Marketing Act. The purpose of the Act was to level the playing field between cable companies and satellite companies. Cable companies were endeavoring to keep satellite companies from creating business by using unfair business practices. Chairman of the Committee was Ernest F. Hollings (D) from South Carolina, vice chairman was Senator Al Gore. It was Mr. Gore who invited Fred Finn to give testimony at the hearing. Record of the meeting can be found at http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/congbibs/senate/100dgst1.html, and is copied verbatim below.
1987/07/31
Daily Digest - Friday, July 31, 1987; pages D1073 - D ? (Bound vol. D567-
D570)SATELLITE TV FAIR MARKETING ACT
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on Communications held hearings on S. 889, to provide for fair marketing practices for certain encrypted satellite communications and to prohibit the scrambling of satellite signals of public broadcasting stations and Armed Forces Radio and Television Services programming, receiving testimony from Peter K. Pitsch, Chief, Office of Plans and Policy, Federal Communications Commission; James P. Mooney, National Cable Television Association, Bert Carp, Turner Broadcasting Systems, Inc., Frederick W. Finn, Brown and Finn, and B.R. Phillips III, NRTC, all of Washington, DC; Bob Thompson, TCI, Denver, Colorado; Greg Ricca, Viacom International, Inc., and Raymond Timothy, NBC, both of New York, New York; David G. Wolford, Home Satellite Services, Boise, Idaho; Chet Grochoski, Amway Corporation, Ada, Michigan; Larry Dunham, General Instruments Corporation, San Diego, California; Charles Ergen, Echosphere, Englewood, Colorado; Michael Hobbs, Public Broadcasting Service, Alexandria, Virginia; and Diane Davis, St. Joe, Arkansas.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
Fred Finn testified before the Committee, specifically giving an opening statement, and then answering questions for Senator Al Gore (D) Tennessee, Senator Bob Pack Wood (R) Oregon, and Senator John McCain (R) Arizona.
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Fred's Opening Statement
3 min 16 sec
Testimony to Sen Gore and
Sen Packwood
5 min 55 sec
Testimony to Sen McCain
2 Min 24 sec
